by Peter Speetjens | 09/07/2005 | Middle East
Forty years ago last week, the Jewish thinker Martin Buber died in Jerusalem. Though he was widely respected as one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, Israeli politicians and state officials were mostly absent from his funeral. In contrast, a delegation...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/09/2004 | World
DE STANDAARD; 14 augustus, 2004 Tekst: Peter Speetjens DE rechtszaak tegen de zeventig vermoedelijke huurlingen vindt plaats in de zwaarbewaakte Chikurubi-gevangenis in Zimbabwe, waar de mannen al enkele maanden achter de tralies zitten. De 69 Zuid-Afrikanen, onder...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/05/2004 | Middle East
Na 18 jaar gevangenisstraf, waarvan een groot deel in eenzame opsluiting, komt Mordechai Vanunu vrij. Nou ja vrij. Hij mag het land niet uit, mag geen contact hebben met buitenlanders en blijft onder observatie van de Israëlische autoriteiten die onder andere zijn...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/03/2004 | Lebanon
In one of the early adventures of Asterix and Obelix, a Phoenician trade ship takes the world’s funniest Celtic warriors from the Gaul’s last village free from Roman rule to Queen Cleopatra in the land of the Nile. Now, of course this is but an image in a comic book,...
by Peter Speetjens | 09/02/2004 | India, Middle East
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi believed the Jews had been “cruelly wronged” by the world, but, as he wrote in a Harijan newspaper on Nov. 11, 1938: “(M)y sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for a national home for the Jews does not make much...
