Colonial administrations prioritized cash crops and mineral wealth – cotton, rubber, cocoa, gold – over food security, creating monocultures and fragile, externally oriented economies. Before we consider Dutch colonial history, a few submissions may be considered in respect of its ‘moral authority’ in the present world and why the essence of colonial lineage, of which we will figure in a moment, lies just beneath the surface of the ‘moral authority’. The single most significant factor in projecting the ‘moral authority’ that is perceptibly associated with the Kingdom of the Netherlands is the city of The Hague itself. Before the occupation there were approximately 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands, and of that total at least 10),000 were murdered. Now, we come to the latest epochal horror, in the State of Palestine.