The Dutch are on the Wrong Side, Again
"Would we have protested if the resistance had blown up a school with German children?" - is the Dutch logic of supporting Israeli war crimes.
In the pallid bureaucratic language that cloaks moral cowardice, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has made his nation's position clear: there is "no red line" that Israel can cross that would cause the Netherlands to alter its steadfast support. No war crime too heinous, no massacre too bloody, no humanitarian catastrophe too devastating will shake the Dutch government's resolve to stand with the executioners rather than the executed.
We have seen this moral failure before in Dutch history. The echoes of collaboration during the Nazi occupation now find their modern expression in the corridors of power in The Hague, where officials meticulously avoid condemning what the International Court of Justice—housed on their own soil—has deemed a plausible genocide.
When Israeli forces gun down aid workers distributing food to starvin…
