Haaretz: A 91-year-old Dutch man who was declared a Righteous Among the Nations [by Israel] for saving a Jew during the German occupation on Wednesday returned his medal and certificate because six of his relatives were killed by an Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip last month. [In the letter he sent to the Israeli embassy he writes:] The great- great grandchildren of my mother have lost their [Palestinian] grandmother, three uncles, an aunt and a cousin at the hands of the Israeli army ... For me to hold on to the honour granted by the State of Israel, under these circumstances, will be both an insult to the memory of my courageous mother who risked her life and that of her children fighting against suppression and for the preservation of human life as well as an insult to those in my family, four generations on, who lost no less than six of their relatives in Gaza at the hands of the State of Israel.”
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:41:01 +0000
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