Anton van Hooff

In many ways I quickly felt a relief from the first pages of this book. Hey, hey, finally authors who point out that it is very easy to just go back to history, but if your facts or quotes are wrong, then your application is also wrong. Today (April 4), Brazilian President Lula said that 12.3 million Palestinians have been killed in just a few weeks. While not even 11 million people live in the areas AND Israel together. Example if you don't even know if Palestinians exist and know nothing show more about the history of "Palestine" because it only started in 1967 (!).
However, the authors also wrote some things that are not reliable (...) and in particular the comment by Tom Buijtendorp (ex NRC) who notes "journalism in a quality newspaper such as NRC Handelsblad" & "In which messages are described factually and neutrally" . But gentleman conveniently forgets that NRC was discredited by lying journalists who were even expelled from the countries where they resided...

In short, the things described in this booklet are something to learn from when it comes to the unbridled citing and misuse of history (and fabricated history!), but the authors themselves make a number of serious mistakes in this booklet. . show less

De eerste onafhankelijkheidsverklaring, opgesteld door de toenmalige griffier van de Staten Generaal Jan Asseliers, is -ook internationaal- velen tot voorbeeld geweest. Van Hooff geeft in dit boek een duidelijke schets van de historische context waarin het is geschreven. Annotaties bij de oorspronkelijk tekst maken het geheel tot een fraai monument.