Dutch Officials Demonize Israelis
by Timon Dias
• November 17, 2014 at 5:00 am
The truth
is that there has never been an Israeli genocide against Palestinians, and
that Israel has done everything in its power apart from not going to war at
all -- that is, apart from surrendering -- to spare innocent lives, including
the lives of people trying to destroy it.
Israel
simply became a safe haven for a persecuted religious minority who sought
statehood after having concluded that no state could guarantee their safety
except for a Jewish state.
That
Israel is not even any kind of player in this Muslim Sunni-Shia "ISIS
War" apparently did not occur to Wijenberg.
As is so
often true when vilifying Israel, "Israel" is, at bottom, most
likely just a transparent fig-leaf for again vilifying "Jews."
An increasingly popular argument, when certain Dutch officials and
Muslim commentators discuss Islamic State [IS] jihadists from Europe, is that
these jihadists are really no different from European Jews who choose to
serve in the Israel Defense Forces [IDF].
In The Netherlands this trend seems to have started when an op-ed,
entitled, "Jihad for Israel," written for Al-Jazeera by Columbia
University PhD. candidate Hanine Hassan, was translated into Dutch for the
website "Wij Blijven Hier," which means "We Are Here To
Stay." The website is hugely popular among Dutch youths from a Muslim
background.
The main thesis of the op-ed was that serving in the IDF should be as
punishable as joining IS, as the IDF, too, is a genocidal regime, just like
IS.
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