ZGram - 1/10/2003 - "Europe's new heroine?"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January 10, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Remember Gretta Duisenberg - the lady that let the Palestinian flag 
flutter from her bedroom window?  The Dutch Jews were outraged and 
tried to do what they like to do best and what always backfires on 
them:  Drag their victim into court!  To their chagrin, the case was 
dropped, however.

But now they have  a second chance, for she has annoyed them again. 
Let's see how this one plays!  And let's hope that her husband is as 
spunky as she is!


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http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20030110/wduis01
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Dutch activist's comments anger Jewish groups,
Globe and Mail (Toronto), January 10, 2003

"Several Jewish groups voiced outrage Friday over comments attributed to
Gretta Duisenberg, wife of Europe's top banker, comparing the Israeli
occupation of Palestinian territories with the Nazi occupation of the
Netherlands. The Centre for Information and Documentation for Israel sent a
letter to Wim Duisenberg, president of the European Central Bank, asking
him to clarify whether he supported his wife's pro-Palestinian statements.
If so, it said, he should resign. Mrs. Duisenberg made her latest comments
while on a highly publicized visit to the West Bank, where she met
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday.

'The Holocaust excepted, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian
territories is worse than the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands,' she was
quoted as saying Friday in an interview with the Dutch daily Algemeen
Dagblad. 'The cruelty of the Israelis knows no bounds. For example, it's
not unusual that they blow up Palestinian houses. The Nazis never went so
far during the Dutch occupation.'

More than 100,000 Jews =97 about 70 per cent of the Dutch Jewish community =
=97
were deported to concentration camps and killed during the German
occupation of the Netherlands. Among them was the teenage diarist Anne
=46rank. Earlier this week, Wim Duisenberg broke months of silence over his
wife's activism after the Foreign Ministry protested that she had used a
diplomatic passport for her Middle East trip. He said he 'supports his wife
100 per cent.' The leader of the Jewish organization, Ronny Naftaniel, said
Mrs. Duisenberg's remarks were 'repulsive,' and that her husband had left
the impression he endorses them ...

A smaller Jewish activist group, the Jewish Federation of the Netherlands,
said it had filed a second request for the Dutch public prosecutor to
investigate Ms. Duisenberg for hate crimes. An earlier request, made after
she said she hoped to gather 'six million' signatures on a pro-Palestinian
petition, was rejected. The Jewish Federation said the remark was intended
as a mocking reference to the number of Jews killed in the Second World
War, which she denied. Herman Loonstein, head of the Jewish Federation,
said he wanted Ms. Duisenberg to be prevented from making any more public
statements about Jews."

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