Another problem seems to be that the bus company hired such a person in the first place.

fire the driver, then hold an instruction session with all personel

lose his job and never be allowed to work with the public again. It doesn't matter what language the couple was speaking, or if they were holocaust survivors or not(although it is worse that they are.)

Note the gist of the news: The bus driver claims for his defense that he thought that the elderly couple are...gentiles! Finally! The mask is coming off and the world can see where this dangerous exercise in Jewish power is going.

Disgraceful! The driver deserved to be disciplined . Such behavior should not be condoned.

and dutch sounds like german.

and dutch sounds like german

His story must be amazing.

not prepared for such a unreal situation like this.

So, Dutch speaking tourists are warned when visiting Israel.

forced to pay compensation to the couple If he can't be taught to behave, he should at least pay for his behaviour.

decided to live a good live inside the borders of Israel. This bus driver is insane. Can happen everywhere. Probably not in peaceful Mexico.

This is a TYPICAL Israeli SCUMBAG. They are 25% of Israel's population Today. 50 years or even 40 years ago, this would never happened. I wish more GOYIM come to Israel to live here, and to push out this filth out of country.

There is no way that the Dutchman is a holocaust surviver at the age of 74. The Germans killed jewish children/babies immediatly upon arrivals to the camps. Probably the driver's parents or grandparents were survivors. He thought they were Germans. It is good. At least he knows that the Germans were Nazis and the Dutch people were proxies of the Nazis. Let him keep his job.I wouldn't loss sleep over the matter. The Israel's official language is Hebrew so learn to speak it. In America I hear spanish too much because people don't learn english iin the stores and resturants they speak spanish to me. No respect. This Jew does not offer much to Israel. Let him enjoy Amsterdam. When you live in Israel speak Hebrew. Go Israel.

Did it not occur to the man behind the wheel that even if the passengers had been speaking German, the fact that they were visiting Israel would make it extremely doubtful that they were nazis. And even if a German visitor had nazis relatives, does that make them nazis ?

ITON GADOL (Buenos Aires) until now. I would wait a couple of hours for confirmation. I would believe Martin Leeda in person but don't buy everything ynet sells.

It does not matter whether they were Jew or Gentile in a civilised country anybody including a German should be able to get on a bus and not be attacked. Gentile Germans should feel as safe in Israel as I would be an English Jewish Zionist. The bus company should have sacked him already and the couple should be compensated. Also training and education to all employers should be made an immediate priority.

To live as a Jew in Syria or as an Armenian in Turkey

Only you wrote about the dutch couples experience. Where you nearby? How comes that only you heard the story?

is spoken and/ or understand in Israel (Inuit? Unfortunately: Not yet). All Dutch and German tourists know and experienced how welcome they are in Israel among Jews, Arabs and Christians. They return again and again to this amazing country. The story of one single bus driver is far from representative for all of them. He must be disturbed and would have done the same to everybody. /Now I opened the gate for many Egged- or other public transportation stories ... But we all made our very own personal bad experience with THIS bus driver, THAT stewardess, ... a jew, christian or arab (Bahai or Druze? Me - never). What happened to Mr. Leeda and his wife is terrible, but not representative for a whole bus company or Israel.

At least one I know well.

I agree with you totally. if there is somebody addressed as goim in Israel. This country will not be different from Soudi Arabia or Sudan, Tolerant to visitors and decent to co- beings will create a culture for coming generations and they will get prosperous in all means.

His behavior was shameful no question.

This drive deserve an immediate promotion. Don't believe this story. If this passenger is not happy in Israel move back to Holland. Enjoy the hospitality>>the buses, trains and streets of Holland. They probably talked very loud during the trip. So the drive snaped. No crime is committed. Thats why other passengers did not get involved in the fiesta. All the European jews who moved to israel complain alot. In Europe you lived quietly like a rot now in Israel get with the program. It is a tough enviroment.

Decent people should be very disturbed by an assault on anyone, especially elders. Whether or not the gent is a holocaust survivor is not germain to the discussion. He and his wife were demeaned and assaulted by a prejudiced, disturbed person. The important result will be how this is handled by the bus company, and perhaps the police. It was an assault. People should not take the isolated bad act of one person and make generalizations about the people and country which he lives in.

The bus driver doesn't represent Jews any more than you represent all the residents of NYC. I think you and the bus driver are BOTH crazy.