Re: Ilse, my condolences..

Posted by E on May 07, 2002 at 21:29:29:

In Reply to: Re: Ilse, my condolences.. posted by Ilse on May 07, 2002 at 17:03:22:

: I must admit I am rather shocked too. As is the whole country. Everybody is talking about this. I never thought anything like this could ever happen here. As our Prime Minister said: "The Netherlands is a tolerant country where, although naturally there are opposing political points of view, there is respect for one another and one can fight with words, not bullets".

: I'm afraid this will profoundly influence the way we arrange things here and live with each other, and not for the better.

: Ilse

Incredibly stunned, you must be, Ilse. And didn't you have an entire cabinet resignation over Dutch-UN Bosnia/Serbia *problems* recently? Other than shock, what is the Dutch "street" reaction? In what ways do you see life in the Netherlands changing?

Political assasinations in France ... French primary upset ("What did we do?!!!") ... Palestine ... Afghanistan ... SUDAN (wish the world would wake up to that one/hundreds and hundreds of Sudanese refugees living in NC now) ... Germany ... South America (A coup recall????) ... Iraq (southern marshes, northern Kurds - a great human tragedy in play) ... India ...
Nothing is as it was. The world's in painful, historic convulsions.

(For N Americans interested in better, in-depth news coverage, try World Link TV, BBC, World News Channel, etc.)

E

Follow Ups:

• Re: Ilse, my condolences.. Ilse 08:46:26 5/08/2002 (2)
  • Re: Ilse, my condolences.. Elaine 14:41:43 5/09/2002 (1)
    • Re: Europe, Netherlands & the world Ilse 16:25:38 5/10/2002 (0)
• Re: Ilse, my condolences.. Bea 08:32:14 5/08/2002 (1)
  • WorldLink & Broader Perspectives Elaine 14:23:15 5/09/2002 (0)

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: : I must admit I am rather shocked too. As is the whole country. Everybody is talking about this. I never thought anything like this could ever happen here. As our Prime Minister said: "The Netherlands is a tolerant country where, although naturally there are opposing political points of view, there is respect for one another and one can fight with words, not bullets". 

: : I'm afraid this will profoundly influence the way we arrange things here and live with each other, and not for the better.

: : Ilse 

: Incredibly stunned, you must be, Ilse. And didn't you have an entire cabinet resignation over Dutch-UN Bosnia/Serbia *problems* recently? Other than shock, what is the Dutch "street" reaction? In what ways do you see life in the Netherlands changing? 

: Political assasinations in France ... French primary upset ("What did we do?!!!") ... Palestine ... Afghanistan ... SUDAN (wish the world would wake up to that one/hundreds and hundreds of Sudanese refugees living in NC now) ... Germany ... South America (A coup recall????) ... Iraq (southern marshes, northern Kurds - a great human tragedy in play) ... India ...
: Nothing is as it was. The world's in painful, historic convulsions. 

: (For N Americans interested in better, in-depth news coverage, try World Link TV, BBC, World News Channel, etc.)

: E


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