Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Ti torno le tue medaglie sporche di sangue stato ebraico

 
Cognome Italiano
 
A 91-year-old Dutch man who was declared a Righteous Among the Nations for saving a Jew during the German occupation on Thursday returned his
medal and certificate because six of his relatives were killed by an Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip last month.
In 2011, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum declared Henk Zanoli and his late mother, Johana Zanoli-Smit, Righteous Among the Nations for having
saved a Jewish child, Elhanan Pinto, during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Pinto, born in 1932, was hidden by the Zanoli family from the spring of 1943
until the Allies liberated Holland in 1945. His parents perished in Nazi death camps.
 
In hiding a Jewish child, the Zanoli family took a double risk, because it was already under Nazi scrutiny for having opposed the German occupation.
Zanoli's father was sent to the Dachau concentration camp in 1941 due to his opposition to the occupation, and he subsequently died at the Mauthausen
concentration camp in February 1945. Henk Zanoli's brother-in-law was executed because of his involvement in the Dutch resistance, and one of his
brothers had a Jewish fiancée, who was also killed by the Nazis.
Zanoli's great-niece, Angelique Eijpe, is a Dutch diplomat who currently serves as deputy head of her country's diplomatic mission in Oman. Her
husband, economist Isma'il Ziadah, was born in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The couple has three children. Ziadah's parents were born in
Fallujah, on whose lands the town of Kiryat Gat now sits. His father died in 1987.
 
On Sunday, July 20, an Israeli fighter jet dropped a bomb on the Ziadah family's home in al-Bureij. The bomb killed the family matriarch, Muftiyah, 70;
three of her sons, Jamil, Omar and Youssef; Jamil's wife, Bayan; and their 12-year-old son, Shaaban. The bombing thus orphaned Jamal and Bayan's
other five children, four daughters and a son, while bereaving Omar's two sons and Youssef's three sons and a daughter of their fathers. The bombing
also killed Mohammed Maqadmeh, who happened to be visiting the family that day.
Zanoli, an attorney by profession, heard about the killing of the Ziadah family from his niece. 
 
As a way of expressing his shock and pain, he decided to
return the medal and certificate that were awarded to him and his mother (posthumously) as Righteous Among the Nations. 
 
Because of his age and poor
health, he did not do so in person, but sent them by messenger to the Israeli Embassy in The Hague - the same place where he received them in an
official ceremony three years ago.
 
In the accompanying letter, addressed to Ambassador Haim Davon, Zanoli began by describing the price his family paid for resisting the Nazis and their
successful effort to save a Jewish child.
"Against this background it is particularly shocking and tragic that today, four generations on, our family is faced with the murder of our kin in Gaza.
Murder carried out by the State of Israel," he wrote.
Home Article Print Page"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."
 
Noting that Israel's actions in Gaza "have already resulted in serious accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity," he continued, "as a retired
lawyer it would be no surprise to me that these accusations could lead to possible convictions if true and unpoliticized justice is able to have its course.
What happened to our kin in Gaza will no doubt be brought to the table at such a time as well."
 
 

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Le medaglie israelite conferitegli per aver salvato diversi ebrei durante la seconda guerra mondiale.
 
Gliele ha rispedite con disgusto dopo che 5 suoi congiunti sono stati uccisi a Gaza.
 
 

Una operazione militare illegittima?

 Una operazione militare illegittima?
 
Pare, ho sentito di bombardamenti su Gaza.
 
Ti risulta?

 Pare, ho sentito di bombardamenti su Gaza.
 
non oserebbero mai massacrare dei civili. Sono l'esercito pi� morale del
mondo. 
 
-- 
Sostituiamo le molte definizioni di "dignit� dell'uomo", che sono soltanto
giaculatorie estasiate,
con una sola, semplicissima: fare tutto lentamente. 
Nicolas Gomez Davila, Tra poche parole

 
 
Siamo d'accordo sono una confraternita di fratelli che fanno beneficenza.
 
Pero' il vecchietto gli ha sbattuto le medaglie sul muso.
 
Pare gli abbiano sterminato i parenti.
 
Eccesso di sforzi umanitari, sono convinto.