State May Not Retrieve Part of 30 Billion Euro Paid for Saving Bank

Gerrit Zalm, head of the ABN Amro Bank and former minister of finance, has said that it will be difficult for the government to retrieve all 30 billion euro which it paid to save the ABN Amro and Fortis Bank Netherlands. He said it is too early to say how much of the investment can be recouped. He also pointed out that some of the money was invested in the insurance company ASR.
www.parool.nl/parool/nl/30/2010/article/print/detail/296959/Zalm-terugbetaling-staatssteun-ABN-onzeker.dhtml

Synagogue Daubed with Red Paint

The synagogue in Amersfoort has been daubed with large quantities of red paint. No text or graffiti were added. The Jewish community has put in a complaint with the police. According to the police it is unclear whether this is vandalism or a targeted action.
www.refdag.nl/nieuws/regio/amersfoortse_synagoge_besmeurd_met_verf_1_482185

Is Labor Party Election Platform Only Anti-Israeli or Also Anti-Semitic?

The Dutch Parliamentary elections will take place on Wednesday 9 June. The platform of the Dutch Labor party (PVDA) is called “Everybody Counts”. The section on international affairs is entitled “The Netherlands in a Better World”. In it is a section on areas of instability in the world. It mentions in one line two areas of Africa. The only other issue named is the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, which gets 25 lines. It makes strong demands almost exclusively on Israel, recommending EU pressure on it to conform with these demands, with a few minor ones on the Palestinians. No mention is made of the promotion of genocide of Jews in the Charter of the largest Palestinian party, Hamas nor of the glorification of murderers of civilians by the Palestinian Authority. No mention is made in the program of the war in Afghanistan, in which the Labor party was the main proponent of withdrawal of all Dutch involvement before the NATO mission was completed. The Labor party leader is Job Cohen the former mayor of Amsterdam, whose grandparents on his father’s side were murdered in the Holocaust.
http://nu.pvda.nl/verkiezingen/Verkiezingsprogramma.html

Radical Muslim Group Calls on Muslims Not to Vote

The Dutch branch of the radical Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir has called on Dutch Muslims not to vote in the Parliamentary elections of 9 June 2010, saying “your participation in these elections will not stop the evil”. The organization says that no political candidate has anything to offer to Muslims, whereas by voting Muslims legitimize the results of the elections. Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Muslim organization which strives for a single Islamic state. In many Muslim countries and some European countries the organization is banned. The council of Moroccan mosques in northern Holland has called upon Muslims to participate in the vote.
www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/verkiezingen2010/6846557/__Campagne_Hizb_ut-Tahrir_tegen_verkiezingen__.html?cid=rss

Dutch Hamas Leader in Gaza Flotilla

Amin Abou Rashed was one of the two Dutch participants in the flotilla of pseudo humanitarian activists. According to the Dutch intelligence services he is the leader of Hamas in the Netherlands. In various reports of these services he appears also under the name of Amin Abou Ibrahim. He worked for the Dutch al-Aksa Foundation, which is suspected of collecting funds for Hamas. He lost an arm in fighting against Israel. Rashed, who is originally Palestinian, has a Dutch passport and operates from Rotterdam.
www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/6841211/__Hollandse_Hamasleider_was_erbij__.html

Special Police Unit Contains Violent Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators

The special mobile unit of the Dutch police had to intervene in a pro-Palestinian demonstration held in front of the Israeli Embassy in the Hague. The intervention occurred after some of the demonstrators started throwing objects. Among the protestors was the Parliamentarian Krista van Velzen of the left-wing Socialist party.
www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Nederland/267068/AntiIsraeldemonstratie-Den-Haag-loopt-uit-de-hand.htm?rss=true

Extreme Anti-Semite Speaks at Amsterdam Islam Congress

Salah Soltan, the founder of the American Center for Islamic Research was one of the speakers at a major congress on Islam in Amsterdam organized by the Federation of Islamic organizations in the Netherlands, attended by thousands of participants. He is also professor of Islamic Culture at the Al Khaleej University in Bahrain. Soltan is on record as saying that Jews murder Christians every year to prepare unleavened bread needed for the festival of Passover. He did not mention this subject during his lecture but confirmed to a Christian pastor who asked him the question in private that this was his view, specifying that this related mainly to Zionists.
http://globalmbreport.com/?p=2907
www.amsterdampost.nl/islamcongressen-29-mei-te-amsterdam/