Avigdor 'Hiroshima' Lieberman en collega Uri 'ik heb er alles aan gedaan' Rosenthal
in Jeruzalem, 7 februari 2011.
in Jeruzalem, 7 februari 2011.
Op 22 december vorig jaar verscheen er een interview in de Israëlische krant Haaretz met minister Uri Rosenthal. Dat is, zo blijkt, ingrijpend veranderd. Let u op de rode tekst. Daarvoor moet u weten dat de schrijver van het artikel Cnaan Lipschitz is. Liphshiz werd door het Nederlandse zionistische lobby instituut Centrum voor Informatie en Documentatie Israël (CIDI) betaald en aangestuurd om CIDI-propaganda te verspreiden in de Israëlische krant Haaretz, zo ontdekte The Electronic Intifada. De teksten in blauw zijn compleet verwijderd. Bij Stan van Houcke vindt u het originele bericht. De veranderingen zijn de volgende:
Voor: A hardened scientist specialized in analyzing and managing mega-crises
Na: A hardened scientist specialized in analyzing and managing national crises
Voor: "I’m not thinking 24/7 that I’m from a Jewish background," says Rosenthal, the 65-year-old son of Dutch Holocaust survivors
Na: "I’m not thinking 24/7 that I’m from a Jewish background," says 65-year-old Rosenthal
Voor: His parents fled Holland in 1942 to Switzerland, where he was born in July 1945. They returned that year.
Na: Rosenthal’s parents fled Holland in 1942 to Switzerland, after spending two years in hiding. He was born in Switzerland in July 1945, the year in which the family returned to Holland.
Voor: According to the Center on Information and Documentation on Israel...
Na: The Netherlands Police reported...
Voor: ...attacks against Jews have increased last year by roughly 50 percent compared to 2008.
Na: ...there has been a 48-percent increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the country since 2008
Voor: Rosenthal calls this trend “a genuine problem.” He added: “We have to address and solve this problem by ourselves. Perhaps up until now, the Amsterdam authorities have been lenient on it.”
Na: These figures, as well as similar statistics, convinced Frits Bolkenstein, a former official in the European Commission and one-time head of Rosenthal’s party, to advise practising Jews to leave The Netherlands for Israel and the United States.
Rosenthal concedes that Bolkenstein was responding to a true problem, in particular in Amsterdam. He says that the Dutch Jewish population is suffering at the hands of youths from a variety of ethnicities, but believes that Bolkenstein’s suggestion would not help the situation. “We have to address and solve this problem by ourselves. Perhaps up until now, the Amsterdam authorities have been lenient on it.”
Verwijderd: Rosenthal says he believes in the Middle East policy of his predecessor, Maxime Verhagen, who now heads the Christian-Democrat party - VVD's coalition partner. Verhagen was seen as one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Europe.
Voor: One of Rosenthal’s first statements regarding Israel as minister concerned the website The Electronic Intifada. Upon learning that the site – cofounded by a member of Dutch parliament – received support from a government-funded Christian humanitarian organization, Rosenthal said he will have “a hard talk” with the aid group, ICCO.
Na: One of the new foreign minister’s first statements regarding Israel concerned the website The Electronic Intifada, which was co-founded by a member of the Dutch parliament, for activists trying to promote an economic and cultural boycott of Israel. Rosenthal discovered that the anti-Israel site received support from a government-funded Christian humanitarian organization, and says he will have “a hard talk” with the aid group, ICCO.
Verwijderd: The Electronic Intifada acts as a news service to activists and members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement - a loose international collection of people and institutions working to boycott Israel, which has been compared on the site to Nazi Germany. In 2010 the site has been found to have disseminated two false reports of boycotts of Israel by Dutch financial organizations.
Verwijderd: The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor has accused the Dutch embassy in Tel Aviv of having a pro-Palestinian agenda. This month Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who supports the coalition from outside the government, told Haaretz that Rosenthal should “look into the actions” of the Dutch embassy.
“I know that there are stories going around about a biased position on the part of the Dutch embassy - a pro-Palestine position,” Rosenthal said. “But I have no reason to accept that claim.”
Earlier this year, Haaretz reported the Dutch embassy has funded the organization Breaking the Silence – which encourages Israeli soldiers to publicize alleged human rights violations – to the tune of 19,995 euros. Any funding over 20,000 euros requires approval from the Hague.
Officials from the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) said the embassy had advised them in September to dis-invite a delegation of Israeli mayors scheduled to visit Holland, because some hailed from West Bank settlements. The Dutch embassy and the foreign ministry have denied its involvement, claiming the initiative came from VNG.
“Furthermore, I think settlements are an impediment to the peace process,” Rosenthal added. “I know people in Israel living in places where they have from time to time to go to the shelters in pajamas and who say to me that they’d rather get rid themselves of the settlements. At the same time I’m very keen on countering the tendency to delegitimize Israel. I don’t like Israel-bashing.”
In the early 1990s, Rosenthal – an expert on terrorism – said left-wing extremism was more dangerous to the rule of law than right-wing extremism. But 15 years later, it appears the extreme right has gained much more prominence and even power in Europe compared to the extreme left.
“I made that remark in the context of a series of clashes between left wing and right wing radicals in the Netherlands,” Rosenthal says. “In those days attention went nearly exclusively to the radical right wing. The left wing activists were nearly not addressed. I made that statement to get some balance. And I think I was right to do so.”
Lees ook:
» Haaretz journalist doubles as anti-"delegitimization" operative
» Why NGO Monitor is attacking The Electronic Intifada
» Uri Rosenthal. Een Nederlandse Minister
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