CALLER: Yeah, you know, the Terri Schiavo case has gotten very personal for me. My son was born without an esophagus and we fed him through G-tube for 18 months until he had an esophagus constructed. Now he's a healthy, intelligent, seventh grader who flies through the air on his skateboard.

RUSH: You know what, Dana, it's a damn good thing you weren't in the Netherlands when he was born.

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RUSH: Before you even go there, if this Netherlands thing happens and then it happens to expand beyond the Netherlands, a doctor might be given the opportunity to say, "A kid without an esophagus, gee whiz, we don't want to send anybody into life without an esophagus."

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RUSH: And the Netherlands, of course, is the Ground Zero for the euthanasia movement and the right to die movement and the right-to-kill movement, whatever you want to call it.

Soccer and Anti-Semitism

Published: March 31, 2005

To the Editor:

Re "A Dutch Soccer Riddle: Jewish Regalia Without Jews" (Amsterdam Journal, March 28):

The practice of Dutch soccer fans of taking on what some feel is an offensive Jewish "identity" to root for the Ajax soccer team is unfortunate but not surprising.

My research for a book on hidden Jewish children in the Netherlands during, and especially after, World War II reveals that this latest display of indifference is part of a long history of Dutch insensitivity toward the country's Jewish population - on the part of both the state and society.

Diane L. Wolf
Berkeley, Calif., March 28, 2005
The writer is a sociology professor at the University of California, Davis.