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Related: About this forumDutch ex-minister: World peace if Israeli Jews move to US
HE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) A Dutch former cabinet minister reportedly said that world peace would be achievable if Israels population was forced to move to the United States.
The statement was attributed to Herman Heinsbroek, who served as the Netherlands minister of economic affairs in 2002, in an article that appeared Thursday in the online edition of the prestigious financial monthly Quote, based on an interview with Heinsbroek.
It was a historical error to give the Jews their own country in the middle of Islam, he is quoted as saying. Youve had nothing but war ever since and youve had anti-Semitism resurging, too. My idea: Give the Jews their own state somewhere in the United States and 25 years to move their state over there.
Heinsbroek is also quoted as saying that, if implemented, his solution will finally create, perhaps, peace in the world.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-ex-minister-world-peace-if-israeli-jews-move-to-us/#ixzz3PmQo4c3N
pscot
(21,024 posts)There are fewer people living there than were in Palestine in 1919.
Peregrine
(992 posts)But in Mexico.
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)N/T
branford
(4,462 posts)Any country who mostly abandoned their Jews in the Holocaust should give-up significant real estate, including the Netherlands. Let's see how that would poll with Dutch voters. I'll even give them a small credit for Anne Frank, at least before she was betrayed and died in Bergen-Belson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Netherlands#The_Holocaust
King_David
(14,851 posts)The lill turd, at least though he's encouraging Aliyah from Holland.