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Rhinodawg

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Sat Jan 24, 2015, 11:23 AM Jan 2015

Former Dutch Official: Deport All Israeli Jews for World Peace.

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.”

Heinsbroek, 64, served as a diplomat in the Dutch Foreign Ministry and was posted in Istanbul, according to the Volksrant daily.

http://tundratabloids.com/2015/01/dutch-ex-minister-says-jews-in-israel-should-all-move-to-the-u-s-and-then-we-would-have-world-peace.html

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Former Dutch Official: Deport All Israeli Jews for World Peace. (Original Post) Rhinodawg Jan 2015 OP
Yup...always blame the Jooos. Rhinodawg Jan 2015 #1
Welcome to the new reality. Rhinodawg Jan 2015 #2
Whether one thinks the creation of the state of Israel was a mistake, or not... Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #3
 

Spider Jerusalem

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3. Whether one thinks the creation of the state of Israel was a mistake, or not...
Sat Jan 24, 2015, 11:34 AM
Jan 2015

the fact remains that it exists now, and has a large native-born Jewish population. It's unreasonable to expect that that population should self-deport to elsewhere. The Israel/Palestine situation is only going to be resolved by either a separate Palestinian state or a one-state solution in which Palestinians get full Israeli citizenship and civic rights in exchange for abandoning claims to the occupied territories. And the majority of Jews are not Israelis; more Jews live outside Israel than in it, and it's no more fair to blame the actions of the Israeli government on "the Jews" than it is to blame the actions of Al Qaeda or ISIS on "the Muslims".

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