Is it wrong to prefer the West to the rest?
On various occasions and beginning decades before he was elected president, Ronald Reagan warned that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” He understood, and h...
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The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel
The historian Jeffrey Herf's profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing terrorism targeting Israel was not a tactic but rather part of a long-war strategy to destroy the Jewish s...
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German pro-BDS antisemitic teacher investigated by politician
A German lawmaker launched an investigation involving a German school teacher and his alleged antisemitic statements and conduct at a public school in the city of Oldenburg in the state of Lower...
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Don’t Call Obama’s Iran Diplomacy ‘Reaganesque’
Brent Scowcroft’s Aug. 23 op-ed, “An...
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Tiananmen and China’s Long March
In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe...
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Controversial ‘Tin Drum’ Author Grass Dies at 87
German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-should...
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Putin’s Rules
Last week, two Russian long-range bombers skirted the southwest coast of England. British Typhoon warplanes scrambled from their base to “escort” the bombers away. Prime Minister Davi...
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Why Putin’s Gaze is Fixed on Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not happy. The government he backed in Ukraine has collapsed. The Ukrainian leader he favored, Viktor Yanukovych is on the run, a...
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The Iranian Rapprochement Fantasy
‘Any agreement that does not recognize the rights of the Iranian people and does not respect these rights, has no chance,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said last week. The Iranian fo...
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Remembering The Invasion of Grenada 30 Years On
One night in late October, 1983, I listened to a BBC short wave broadcast reporting that the United States was about to invade Grenada. I chuckled, said to myself, “Crazy Brits,...
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Vladimir Putin, the Neo-Soviet Man
Vladimir Putin and I are about the same age and we went to college at about the same time. As a matter of fact, we went to college together. No, really. Putin attended Leningrad State Un...
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Cold War Christmas Messages We Must Not Forget
Too often these days, the Cold War is treated as ancient history — as something from a simpler age of the world. It ended years before the advent of the high-speed Internet, Google and Face...
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Wrong Way Down the Danube
How Hungary's Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe
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Günter Grass: Always on the Wrong Side
Berlin — Last week, Germany’s most famous living writer called Israel the greatest impediment to world peace. Eighty-four-year-old Nobel literature laureate Günte...
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The Return of the Israel Apartheid Week Cult
In Syria, the Assad regime continues to rain artillery on rebel positions in the city of Homs, killing journalists and innocent civilians alike. Iran’s mullahs are set to execute a Canadian...
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Turning Holocaust Remembrance Into Israel Bashing
The German Holocaust foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, Future - EVZ - is in a state of denial concerning misuse of public funds meant to largely compensate the victims of the Shoah but used...
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Last Superpower Standing?
Being a superpower is not like being a duke or an earl. It's not a hereditary title, not a status you retain however modest your circumstances become. Being a superpower is more like being t...
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History is Back
Is democracy on the march or is it in retreat? I put that question to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week. I suggested the answer was, at best, uncertain: Elections in Gaza have led to...
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Thinking about Terrorism and Other Security Challenges in Africa
In last week's column, surveying developments in the former Somalia, Sudan, the Maghreb and Sahel, Nigeria and West Africa, and the rest of the continent, I concluded that "Through the c...
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Will Cairo be Berlin in 1989 or Tehran in 1979?
The popular uprising in Egypt invites a variety of historical comparisons. It could end up like Bucharest in 1989 — cosmetic change in the leadership that subsequently resulted in violent o...