Israel/Palestine

shira

(30,109 posts) Sat Jan 24, 2015, 06:23 PM Jan 2015

Dutch 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 Israel’s 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. “You’ve had nothing but war ever since and you’ve 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

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Dutch ex-minister: World peace if Israeli Jews move to US (Original Post) shira Jan 2015 OP

How about Wyoming? pscot Jan 2015 #1

Sheldon Cooper suggested something like this Peregrine Jan 2015 #2

The late, great BartCop suggested eastern Oklahoma IggleDoer Jan 2015 #3

Instead of the USA, how about wide swaths of Europe . . . branford Jan 2015 #4

This Dutch Minister should move to Siberia King_David Jan 2015 #5

Interesting responses to Jews being forced to move out of Israel. n/t shira Jan 2015 #6

A tribute to the Dutch school system, he is. bemildred Jan 2015 #7

pscot

(21,024 posts)

1. How about Wyoming?

Reply to shira (Original post)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 06:29 PM

Jan 2015

There are fewer people living there than were in Palestine in 1919.

Peregrine

(992 posts)

2. Sheldon Cooper suggested something like this

Reply to shira (Original post)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 07:30 PM

Jan 2015

But in Mexico.

IggleDoer

(1,186 posts)

3. The late, great BartCop suggested eastern Oklahoma

Reply to shira (Original post)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 08:55 PM

Jan 2015

N/T

branford

(4,462 posts)

4. Instead of the USA, how about wide swaths of Europe . . .

Reply to shira (Original post)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 09:02 PM

Jan 2015

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