Netherlands: Ex-Poet Laureate says Israel colonized West Bank for resources

Ramsey Nasr is a former poet laureate of the Netherlands and the city of Antwerp.  His mother is Dutch, his father Palestinian.

In an interview in Dutch women's magazine Libelle two years ago, back when he was still the Dutch Poet Laureate", Nasr told of the first time he visited his father's side of the family, in the West Bank.

Q: How was it for you to be there? 

A: It's the most beautiful land that you can imagine.  The West Bank is very fruitful, truly a biblical land.  That is also the reason that Israel wants to steal it with settlements, and doesn't want to relinquish it.

That statement has no connection to reality.  But the journalist didn't feel it needed a follow-up question.