Bericht 60

Bericht 60 van het forum.

12 Sept. 2016.

Het warme onthaal bij het bezoek van Netanyahu aan Nederland, bij het Paleis Noordeinde in Den Haag was niet georganiseerd door de Christenen voor Israel zoals door de media hier in Israel werd bericht.  Deze manifestatie was georganiseerd door “Time to stand up for Israel “. De organisatie is opgericht door 2 neutrale niet-geaffilieerde vrouwen,  Sabine Sterk en Brenda Aartsen, na de vreselijke pogromaanslag in 2014 in een sjoel in Har Nof, Jeroesjalajim.  Ze tellen nu al meer dan 3.000 leden.   

Mieke Daniels-Waterman.

De bijvoegsels die behoorden bij het vorige bericht waar Alfi Fass reageert op een artikel in the New York Times kwamen niet goed over bij vele lezers. Hierbij de link naar het oorspronkelijke artikel in de NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/opinion/anne-frank-today-is-a-syrian-girl.html?_r=0

En het artikel van Alfi dat daarop als reactie verscheen in de Jerusalem Post volgt:

My Mother is not a Syrian Girl

by Alfi Fass - Jerusalem Post, 29th August 2016 

My Mother Ruth Fass-Isay was eight years older than Anne Frank. Her plight during the Holocaust was very similar to Anne’s but contrary to Anne, she survived. My mother fled Germany with her family to Amsterdam in 1934. My grandfather and Otto Frank were acquainted and had much in common. Coming from assimilated German Jewish families’ each had to build up a new business in Amsterdam after fleeing Germany. Soon after the German invasion into A'dam the Isay family was sent to Westerbork in order to be transported to Auschwitz. After being miraculously released from Westerbork and sent back to A'dam, my family went into hiding or else risking deportation once again. Together with her parents and younger brother my mother survived the Holocaust by hiding at homes of Dutch families till the end of the war. They were not betrayed and the “onderduik parents” the Geuken Family received a medal from Yad Vashem for saving Jews.

Mr. Kristof claims that Anne’s fate was sealed by a callous fear of refugees, among the world’s most desperate people. I don’t think that is true. Anne’s fate was sealed first and foremost by the Nazis who wanted to annihilate the Jewish people who were innocent and law abiding citizens living peacefully and contributing in all aspects of life to the countries they lived in.

“No one takes their family into hiding in the heart of an occupied city unless they are out of options,” notes Mattie J. Bekink, a consultant at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. “No one takes their child on a flimsy boat to cross the Mediterranean unless they are desperate.” That is absolutely correct. Both Frank family and Isay family fled to Amsterdam and started a new life there in 1934 due to rise of the Nazis in Germany and the persecution of Jews that followed the Nazis caught up with them a few years later. Syria is not occupied by a foreign power, there is a civil war raging. The Syrian girl is in danger because of war in her own country. Anne and my mother were in danger because they were Jews. So why do I feel offended by the claim of Mr. Kristof that Anne Frank is a Syrian girl? Because the Syrian girl is a victim of the hatred within the Arab People fighting among themselves in total disregard to the wellbeing and sustainment of life of their women and children. Anne and my mother were victims of antisemitism. The Syrian girl should be saved by all means. In the first place by her Arab Brothers in the Mid-East, Saudi Arabia, Qatar Kuwait and other Arab Countries. If the State of Israel would have existed in the thirties of the last century I have no doubt that both Anne and my mother would have found refuge.  

So please Mr. Kristof stop exploiting Anne and my mother.  They had nowhere to go  -  the Syrian Girl has.