Posted on 05/29/2002 3:27:48 PM PDT by knighthawk
AMSTERDAM, May 29 (IslamOnline) – The Jewish Union in Holland, a non-government organization which represents Dutch Jews, announced Monday, May 27, that they are going to present a complaint to the preliminary court in Amsterdam in order to sue Greta Duisenberg, wife of the European Central Bank for being “anti-Semitic”.
Duisenberg hung the Palestinian flag outside the balcony of her home in Amsterdam, which angered the Dutch media known for its bias towards Israel. The media has attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrations and have tried to pressure the Dutch government to reassess its attitude regarding the Palestinian crisis.
Here lives a neo-nazi
Algemeen Dagblad, a daily Dutch newspaper, quoted Tuesday, May 28, Vicken De Leo, the liberal party member of the Amsterdam Municipal Council. Saying that it was Duisenberg’s neighbor who was leading the condemnation campaign and suing her.
The paper said that Duisenberg refused the pressures that were placed on her by her neighbors and her husband’s friends along with the media and has insisted on keeping the Palestinian flag hung outside her balcony.
In an interview published by the Dutch Telegraph newspaper, Greta said: “I am the one responsible for hanging the flag outside my balcony and not my husband Wim. I have raised this flag in a demonstration I took part in, in Amsterdam and decided to hang it to show my continuing support.”
She added that she was not satisfied with the way Holland and Europe are dealing with Sharon’s government actions in the Palestinian cities during the last few weeks and that she insists on her position.
“I am an independent thinking woman and responsible for my actions. Both my husband and I own this house which means I can practice my beliefs here,” she said.
She added that raising the flag outside her balcony means that she supports the Palestinians in their struggle defending themselves against the aggression of the Israeli government.
Duisenberg said that her husband being one of the most important personalities in Europe does not restrict her freedom in expressing her opinion and that her husband respects her independence as much as she respects his rights to have his own stances.
Dutch papers have recently attacked Muslim demonstrators who burnt the Israeli flag in a pro-Palestinian demonstrations that were held in the Dutch capital during the month of April. They regarded that as an indication of the end of the Jewish control over the city and the start of a new era in which Muslims are controlling the city.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Cohen, who is of Jewish origins, appeared in the Dutch media angry at the burning of the Israeli flag in his city, which is the first time this has taken place ever since Israel came into existence in 1947.
Despite being a minority in terms of numbers, Jews are influential politically, economically in Holland. They also control the media. The authorities have always appointed a Jewish mayor for the city in recognition of the role that was played by the Jews in the flourishing of the city. They had came as refugees when the Inquisition started, after the fall of Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus) in the fifteenth century.
The recent events in Palestine and the second intifada have pushed the Muslim minority in the city to overcome their differences and to unite in huge demonstrations which many felt threatened the “Jewishness” of the city.
The official reports say that Muslim population has far exceeded the Jewish population, reaching 20 per cent from the population of Amsterdam.
Dutch sources have revealed that nearly 50 per cent of the newborns during the next twenty years will be Muslim which means a central change in the social, cultural and political structure of the city which is one of the most important economic centers in Europe.
Then the usual cr@p:
They also control the media
Sure, that's why so little negative news about the Palestinians is covered in the press and the fake reports of the Jenin 'massacre' were directly published and never questioned? And then why does the national, public broadcasters always blame Israel?
And if the Jews were in control, then why does the police not act when the muslims attack Jews in Amsterdam, like it happened a while ago to Jews leaving a synagoge and when Jewish youth were beaten up by Moroccans?
...and she has the right.....as long as she shuts her ignorant mouth and stays in the kitchen....
I beg to differ...
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