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Israel/Zionism See other Israel/Zionism Articles Title: Dutch man returns Israeli WWII honour after family killed in Gaza The Hague (AFP) - A 91-year-old Dutch man honoured by Israel for shielding a Jew from the Nazis has handed back his medal after six of his relatives were killed in a Gaza air strike. Henk Zanoli returned his Righteous Among the Nations award to the Israeli ambassador in The Hague this week after an Israeli F-16 destroyed his great niece's Gaza home, killing all inside. "It is with great sorrow that I am herewith returning the medal I received as an honour and a token of appreciation from the State of Israel for the efforts and risks taken by my mother and her family in saving the life of a Jewish boy during the German occupation," Zanoli said in a letter dated Monday. According to Zanoli's letter addressed to the Israeli ambassador, the bomb dropped by the Israeli military on July 20 during its massive Gaza offensive, flattened a four-storey building at the Bureij Refugee Camp, killing all inside. "The great-great grandchildren of my mother have lost their grandmother, three uncles, an aunt and a cousin at the hands of the Israeli military," Zanoli said in the letter, published by liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz and widely circulated in the Dutch media. "It is particularly shocking and tragic that today, four generations on, our family is faced with the murder of our kin in Gaza. Murder carried out by the State of Israel," Zanoli said. View gallery The Righteous Among the Nations medal, which is given … The Righteous Among the Nations medal, which is given to non-Jews who stood up to the Nazi genocide … The Israeli Embassy in The Hague on Friday confirmed it was "familiar with the issue," but declined to comment or give details. The nonagenarian was too frail to deliver the letter in person, but instead sent it, with the medal, to the Israeli embassy in The Hague -- the same place he received the accolade three years ago. "For me to hold on to the honour granted to me by the State of Israel under these circumstances, would be an insult... to those in my family, four generations on, who lost no less than six of their relatives in Gaza," Zanoli said. Zanoli's family were outspoken opponents of the invading Nazis and his father was murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp. Zanoli's own brother-in-law was executed in the dunes outside The Hague for being in the Dutch Resistance. The Righteous Among the Nations is an honour accorded by Israel to non-Jews who risked their lives to protect and save Jews during the Holocaust. Almost 2,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's withering offensive on the isolated Gaza Strip, aimed at ending militant rocket fire. "The actions of your state in Gaza these days have already resulted in serious accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity," wrote Zanoli. "As a retired lawyer, it would be no surprise to me that these accusations could lead to possible convictions if true and unpoliticized justice is able to have its course. "What happened to our kin in Gaza will no doubt be brought to the table at such a time as well." Poster Comment: Peter 34 minutes ago 6 15 Fantastic -Congratulations Holland -well done -stuff it up your filthy murderous a hole Israel. The whole of the civilized world is waking up to these barbaric thieves who stole that land in 1948 after their terrorist attack on The King David Hotel in which they murdered 91 mainly British people. The declared themselves "THE STATE OF ISRAEL" -sending a telegram to Truman who replied -ok we recognize you as a legal state. This is how these filthy barbaric thieves got to be "THE STATE OF ISRAEL" -founded on terrorism and theft of the Palestinians land. May they burn and rot in hell for eternity. 50,000 Irish people have signed a petition to EXPEL THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR. snipped from petition form on Avaaz last month [ With "Operation Protective Edge" having killed more than 250 innocent Gazan's and injured more that 2000 in the past 10 days, there is an overwhelming response of empathy and support from the Irish people towards the Palestinian populations of both Gaza and the West Bank against the (ongoing) criminality of the State of Israel and it's campaign of Collective Punishment of the Palestinian population, not to mention their decades long occupation of the West Bank and their illegal siege of Gaza. We call on An Taoiseach Enda Kenny to act now in a way that sends a clear Diplomatic message to the State of Israel that these actions are not acceptable under International Law, and that the Irish State will not tolerate them. We call on you to expel the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland and to recall our own Ambassador to Israel, effective immediately. ] I hope he gets a rugby boot up his stinking filthy murderous asre hole at Dublin airport. Good riddance to you murderous piece of siht I say -and don't EVER return. 15-6 lee Dual US / Israeli Citizens Running American Government American / Isreali Dual Citizens Running the American Government Attorney General – Michael Mukasey Head of Homeland Security – Michael Chertoff Chairman Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Richard Perle Deputy Defense Secretary (Former) – Paul Wolfowitz Under Secretary of Defense – Douglas Feith National Security Council Advisor – Elliott Abrams Vice President #$%$ Cheney’s Chief of Staff (Former) – “Scooter” Libby White House Deputy Chief of Staff – Joshua Bolten Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – Marc Grossman Director of Policy Planning at the State Department – Richard Haass U.S. Trade Representative (Cabinet-level Position) – Robert Zoellick Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – James Schlesinger UN Representative (Former) – John Bolton Under Secretary for Arms Control – David Wurmser Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Eliot Cohen Senior Advisor to the President – Steve Goldsmith THE REST ARE ZIONISTS AND JEWS15-6 Sunwyn "Why must the US deal with this seemingly intractable dispute? The answer, unfortunately, is that the US is largely responsible for the problem because of two American decisions in 1947 and 1948. Now, only the US can break the impasse, by forcing its Israeli client state to give back all or most of the land the United Nations allotted to Muslim and Christian inhabitants when it partitioned Palestine in 1947. Most people who knew the Middle East at first hand opposed the partition plan, adopted by the United Nations on November 29, 1947. Patently unfair, it awarded 56 percent of Palestine to its 650,000 Jewish inhabitants, and 44 percent to its 1,300,000 Muslim and Christian Arab inhabitants. Partition was adopted only after ruthless arm-twisting by the US government and by 26 pro-Zionist US senators who, in telegrams to a number of UN member states, warned that US goodwill in rebuilding their World War H-devastated economies might depend on a favorable vote for partition. In a Nov. 10, 1945 meeting with American diplomats brought in from their posts in the Middle East to urge Truman not to heed Zionist urgings, Truman had bluntly explained his motivation: "I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents." Immediately after the plan was adopted, however, extensive fighting broke out between Jews and Arabs, just as US diplomats had predicted. The Arab states categorically rejected the partition by outside parties of an overwhelmingly Arab land. David Ben-Gurion, soon to be Israel's first prime minister, had ordered his representatives at the UN to accept the plan, but not to enter into any discussion or agreement defining the new Jewish state's borders. To his followers, who, like the Arabs, laid claim to the entire land, Ben-Gurion promised that his acceptance was only tactical. As well-organized Jewish militias seized village after village assigned by the UN plan to the Arabs, and badly organized Arab villagers retaliated with bloody but purposeless attacks on Jewish vehicles and convoys, Secretary of State George C. Marshall urged Truman to reconsider. The British Army was resolved to withdraw from Palestine on May 15, 1948 regardless of the outcome of events in the UN. The fighting was spreading all over the mandate, including Jerusalem, which was supposed to remain a "corpus separatum" under international control and not be assigned either to the Jewish or the Arab state."28-7 zeecasualties are only on 1 side so Israelis don't feel need to stop anytime. He could talk any politician here and first thing they would tell him, Israel has right to defend itself and then walk away. politician may or may not know the constitution but they know the talking points well, can't blame because there job depends on it. even rand Paul realized this.2-2 [Paul] If Israeli land thieves have a right to defend themselves then why don't these pro-Israel politicians pass laws allowing bank robbers to arm and defend themselves from police? http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-man-returns-israeli-wwii-honour-family-killed-205337171.html Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz, *Up to the Sun* (#0)
This must be going on in the minds of WWII participants all over the world.
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