The Netherlands, of course, is the occupied country that during World War II sent the highest proportion of its Jewish population to their deaths.
Now, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp intends to join the campaign to turn Israel as an international pariah. More on his malignant efforts can be found here: “The Netherlands moves to veto extension of Israel-EU cooperation agreement,” JNS, May 7, 2025:
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said on Wednesday that The Hague would veto any extension of the E.U.-Israel Action Plan, which implements the association deal between Brussels and Jerusalem.
The situation in the Gaza Strip is rapidly deteriorating—it is dramatic, catastrophic. Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid is in violation of the laws of war,” Veldkamp told the Dutch Algemeen Dagblad newspaper.
Veldkamp is apparently unaware that Israel has presented a detailed and comprehensive plan to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza directly to the people, and bypassing Hamas so that it cannot, as it has been doing all along, diverting much of that aid to its own members and their extended families, and seizing another large amount to sell, at exorbitant prices, to the Gazans for whom it was intended by donors to be delivered for free. As for Veldkamp’s claim that a blockade of humanitarian aid is in “violation of the laws of war,” the Foreign Minister seems not to know that Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifically allows the withholding of aid if it is likely to be diverted by the enemy for its own use. Here is the relevant section:
The obligation of a High Contracting Party to allow the free passage of the consignments indicated in the preceding paragraph is subject to the condition that this Party is satisfied that there are no serious reasons for fearing:
(a) that the consignments may be diverted from their destination,
(b) that the control may not be effective, or
(c) that a definite advantage may accrue to the military efforts or economy of the enemy through the substitution of the above-mentioned consignments for goods which would otherwise be provided or produced by the enemy or through the release of such material, services or facilities as would otherwise be required for the production of such goods.
Veldkamp, as Foreign Minister, really ought to bone up on the Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 23, before denouncing Israel for doing what it has every right to do.
Meanwhile, the [Israeli] War Cabinet is announcing a reoccupation of Gaza. Taken together, this is reason to draw a line in the sand,” he said.
In a missive to European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, Veldkamp accused Jerusalem of acting in violation of the 2000 E.U.-Israel Association Agreement, which states that relations between the Jewish state and the 27-member body are “based on respect for human rights and democratic principles.”…
Israel is fighting a war that it did not start and did not want. That war was started by a terror group, Hamas, on October 7, 2023, when 6,000 members of the group smashed into Israel, an proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and kill 1,200 Israelis and kidnap another 251. In fighting Hamas, the IDF is not indifferent to civilian suffering, but has made every effort to minimize civilian casualties, especially by warning, through leaflet drops, text messages, and robocalls, civilians away from sites and buildings about to be targeted. By March 2024, the IDF had dropped nine million leaflets, sent fifteen million text messages, and made sixteen million robocalls, all to warn civilians away from places soon to be attacked. Caspar Veldkamp can hardly be unaware of all this, yet he claims that Israel does not “respect human rights.” What more would he have the IDF do? And why does he say nothing about Hamas’ practice of hiding both its men and weapons in civilian areas and buildings, including schools, mosques, and hospitals?
In his letter to Kallas, Veldkamp said Israel’s newly proposed system of aid distribution to bypass Hamas appeared to be incompatible with the “principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence.”
The Israeli plan to distribute aid has one purpose only: to prevent Hamas from stealing so much of the aid that rightly should go to people of Gaza. Veldkamp must not have read all the details of the plan, which are set out here.
Speaking with The Guardian following a meeting with British Foreign Minister David Lammy on Tuesday, Veldkamp criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prioritizing of Hamas’s defeat in Gaza.
“The criticism in Israel is increasing against [the] prime minister that he does not give enough priority to the release of the hostages, and he has now stated also that he doesn’t give that ultimate priority, but he gives the priority to fighting Hamas,” The Hague’s top diplomat told paper….
Veldkamp is entitled to criticize what he sees as the wrong priorities of the Israeli government. But he is not entitled to criticize it, so unfairly, for withholding aid when Israel has just revealed to the world its plan to deliver aid fairly to the people of Gaza and to withhold it only from Hamas. Were he not so eager to distance the E.U. from Israel, he might actually look at the Israeli plan and tell us what he finds wrong with it.
“At my request, the Israeli ambassador was summoned this morning to provide clarification on the worrying developments in the Gaza Strip, including the attack on the aid convoy,” stated Veldkamp, referencing a March 23 incident in which several aid workers were reportedly killed alongside six Hamas terrorists in a convoy of Palestinian ambulances….
The IDF has already investigated that attack which killed 15 people, according to Hamas all of them medics, and according to Israel, nine were medics and six were members of Hamas. Once it discovered the attack on the medics had been an error, the IDF apologized for it, and disciplined the officers involved. Why, then, is Veldkamp still raising the issue now, seven weeks later, as if Israel had not admitted to its error and apologized?
Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom, the country’s largest political movement and a senior coalition partner, slammed Veldkamp’s move as “clumsy and premature” in an interview with Dutch media.
“He has no clue what happened in reality,” Wilders said of his coalition partner’s response to the March incident. “
Responding to Veldkamp’s latest move against the Jewish state in a post on X on Wednesday, Wilders slammed him as a “weak minister who sides with anti-Israel protesters.”
“Did the entire Cabinet actually agree to those ridiculous anti-Israel measures by Minister Veldkamp? Were all ministers from all parties informed about this in advance and did they agree to it? Was there a decision by the Council of Ministers?” he asked, addressing Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in the social media post.
Perhaps, under pressure from Wilders, who heads the largest political movement in the Netherlands, the Dutch Council of Ministers will refuse to support Veldkamp’s determination to distance the E.U. from Israel.
Will Veldkamp’s intention to pull the EU further away from Israel prevail? Or will those “millions of our people” in the Netherlands whom Geert Wilders assured Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Defense Minister Israel Katz support the Jewish state, exert enough political pressure so that the Dutch government will put a stop to Veldkamp’s malevolent move? We will soon see.
Wellington says
Another clueless European. This is reaching epidemic proportions. And how bitterly fitting that this article is posted on May 10th, the very day the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries and France began 85 years ago.
Thankfully also on this day 85 years ago the greatest Englishman of all time became Prime Minister. Too bad what he and the brave British successfully fought for, freedom (and truth), is now being given willingly away by those in charge—in Britain, in The Netherlands, in France, et al. Beyond tragic. Oh, btw, long live Israel.
somehistory says
Wellington, thank you for the history lesson.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
I know Wellington personally.
He is incredibly intelligent attorney and possesses a vast knowledge of American / world history – and how it relates to current events.
gravenimage says
Spot on. James.
gravenimage says
+1
Patrick says
+2
somehistory says
A little off topic
“Report: US removes demand to disarm Hamas as part of ceasefire deal”
“Senior US officials have shifted their position in the past two days on the Israeli demand to disarm Hamas, opting to delay the issue until after a deal to end the war is reached, the Qatari newspaper al-Araby al-Jadeed reported Friday.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/report-us-removes-demand-to-disarm-hamas-as-part-of-ceasefire-deal/ar-AA1EvFMP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c359f9dc74904140b298f908314f2b7e&ei=21
gravenimage says
Crazy.
RegT says
+1
Heidi says
Are they insane or just stupid?
John1 says
Muslim said they love death more than infidels love life. So what’s the f***ing problem?
Billy says
The EU Leftists like the Netherlands, France, Germany, England, etc. partner with Islam’s Muslims against Israel and Non-Muslims to help gain more power and more control.
Allah’s Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran. Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners because Islam violates USA Laws(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam functions like a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:208,216; 4:65, 89,95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 89:14 and more).
tgusa says
It took the Nazis five days to take the Netherlands. Nobody wants to hear what Caspar thinks regarding war.
LadyoftheLake says
The EU is staffed by unelected (shameless), self-important people whom believe that their ideology of uber political-multiculturalism, which is godless (immoral) and featureless, is superior to any other societal way of being. God has kept his perpetual promise to Abram noted in Genesis 12:3. These EU Administrators have risen out of the ashes of ww2 as the demons employed to deliver curses on Europe for its crimes against the Jews.
gravenimage says
The Netherlands to Block Extension of EU-Israel Action Plan
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Ugly stuff–not Geert Wilders’ plan.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why doesn’t Wilders threaten to pull PVV support from the coalition, if they insist on marginalizing Israel?
gravenimage says
I blive that he needs the coalition to stay in power. Anyone please correct me if I am mistaken.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He’s not the prime minister, although some of his party colleagues are ministers. So that makes him even more powerful: he gets to call the shots to the prime minister, who’s not from his party. Politically, the best position to be in: he gets to call the shots despite being the majority party in the coalition, and not at the mercy of minority parties
Captain Quirk says
Thank you very much, Mr. Fitzgerald, for informing us about the fact that article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifically allows the withholding of aid if it is likely to be diverted by the enemy for its own use. That’s the way to fight back. Slam them with proper arguments, show them what they are saying is poppycock. That it is a genocide, for example. Superbly debunked by now.
Here’s another one: article 9, para. 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights reads: ‘Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject (…) to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.’The only word left out is ‘only (the three full stops between the parentheses). This is copy/paste. And it goes to show that the freedom of religion can be subjected to limitations. In view of surah 2: 191, this necessarily leads to the conclusion that the koran should have a major problem with the law. And I mean everywhere, every law. ‘Kill them wherever you find them’ is totally unacceptable language. This makes the koran in its entirety totally unacceptable.
Captain Quirk says
Every criminal law, that is.
Jolani is Pol Pot says
Israel must protect the Druze from the Genocidal Syrian regime, which can only be compared to Pol Pot’s regime.
Bret says
Since the support for Israel is lopsided and these other countries are more pro Muslim than pro Israel, we should demand any “aid “ to these folks to be stopped immediately. America is aiding not only the terrorists, but countries that support the terrorists. Of course all aid should be ended immediately to all countries. Is this more of government’s “too big to fail “ policy. Without American aiding these disastrous governments, maybe those people can rise up and fix their own country.
jerry glenn says
The Netherlands surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
RegT says
The Dutch government treats its own people like dirt, so this does not surprise me.