Itongadol.- The Simon Wiesenthal Center has written a letter to the Dutch Prime Minister asking him to disband a statutory government body that has called on the Netherlands to develop closer ties to the terrorist organization Hamas at the expense of Israel.
The letter to PM Mark Rutte condemns a report by the Advisory Council on International Affairs which calls for the Netherlands to distance itself from Israel and develop closer ties with Hamas. The Dutch Parliament is set to debate the report on October 8th.
In the letter, Head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, says the report is riddled with factual errors and calls for closer ties with Hamas, a terrorist organization whose founding document invokes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a basis to "carry out genocide against Israel\’s six million Jewish citizens."
The Protocol of the Elders of Zion is a fabricated document detailing Jewish plans to control the world.
Rabbi Cooper said: "It is clear that the advisory Council on Foreign Affairs has produced a fatally flawed document that does not serve the cause of peace but only the most extreme forces in the Middle East."
The letter also said it was dismayed at a worrying trend in the Netherlands quoting a university poll in 2011 that found "38% of Dutchmen thought Israel was exterminating the Palestinians."
Israeli President Shimon Peres has just ended a visit to the Netherlands where he met with the Dutch King, and leading politicians.
Until earlier this year, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has given little or no attention to the Netherlands. However the many worrying developments in that country concerning both Jews and Israel seem to have led to a necessary change of policy. A 2011 study of the University of Bielefeld shows that over 38% of the Dutch population of 16 years and older think that Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians. This attitude of falsely accusing Israel of extreme crimes by about 5 million adult Dutchmen is an indication of their own criminal mindset.
"It is in this general Dutch societal climate that a heavily manipulated and biased document as that of the AIV could at all be published."