François Hollande

April 3, 2017 | |

Severing China-North Korea Financial Links

Chinese companies and banks are complicit in Pyongyang’s efforts to evade financial sanctions. Washington should authorize the Treasury Department to impose fines against banks that aid Nor...

January 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Weaponizing Refugees

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Willkomenskultur (“Welcome culture”) refugee policy of last year has screeched to a grinding halt. Delivering an early December speech at her C...

March 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European Affairs: BDS spreading like wildfire in Europe?

To fathom the potency (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement targeting Israel, the diverging and converging paths of its activity in the US and EU can be quite telling. First, the diverge...

January 28, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

France just formally welcomed the Iranian president — and his checkbook

Hassan Rouhani visited Paris on Thursday, part of the first European visit by an Iranian president in 16 years. The trip, which follows Rouhani’s visit to Rome earlier in the week, is aimed...

November 30, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Are France and the EU Serious About Combating Jihadism?

France's Socialist President Francois Hollande declared on Friday that he will leave no stone unturned in his country’s response to Islamic State’s massacre of 130 people in Pari...

November 20, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The Long War Continues

In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...

November 18, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Forget Paris

For almost two generations, since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, self-proclaimed jihadis have been fighting to re-establish Islamic supremacy and domination in the world. Leaders of the na...

November 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Will France Invoke NATO’s Article 5 to Declare War on Islamic State?

To confront comprehensively the Islamic State terrorist attacks on French soil, there have been calls for France’s President François Hollande to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty,...

October 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Report Card on 50 Years of German-Israel Relations

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cancellation of Thursday’s sixth joint cabinet consultation between Israel and Germany because of the domestic security situation comes at the end phase of...

October 5, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Europe Has Billions of Reasons to Let Iran Cheat

Europe’s rapidly expanding economic relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran prompted Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to call for a unified trans-Atlantic approach to enforcement of the...

September 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Iran Sanctions Relief Will Feed Europe’s Syrian Refugee Crisis

While Germany and Austria are in a celebratory mood about absorbing Syrian refugees, European politicians have ignored Iran’s role in producing the waves of desperate Syrians fleeing to Eur...

January 15, 2015 | Tony Badran Business Insider |

Hezbollah, Iran, And The Assad Regime Are Trying To Cash In On The Paris Attacks

France’s pain is an opportunity for others to gain. Last Friday, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah attacked Sunni jihadists as the gravest threat to Islam and it...

January 12, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal The National Review

Can France Regenerate Itself to Fight Radical Islam?

The nation of France imploded last week. Heavily armed Islamic extremists ran amok, massacring police officers, cartoonists, and shoppers at a kosher supermarket. The overall death toll reached 1...

December 18, 2014 | Grant Rumley |

The Palestinians Are Mounting An Audacious Bid To Transform The Terms Of The Peace Process

The diplomatic struggle between Israel and the Palestinians reached a fever pitch on Wednesday as Palestinian ambassadors and their Jordanian allies pressed forward with a ...

October 23, 2014 | |

U.S., Israel Have Few Options to Stop the Palestinian Diplomatic Momentum

The Palestinian struggle with Israel has reached its diplomatic stage. In the months since this summer’s Gaza war, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ...

August 18, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Time for the EU to Outlaw All of Hezbollah

On July 18, barely two years after a Hezbollah suicide bom...

August 4, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Behind Europe’s Anti-Semitic Slurs

A Belgian doctor refuses to provide emergency medical care to a Jewish woman, telling her, “I’m not coming . . . Send her to Gaza for a few hours, then she’ll get rid of the pai...

November 12, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

The French

What are we to make of the latest broken stereotype, the one that portrays the French as Europe's leading surrender monkeys? After French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius rejected the latest...

September 24, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Home Alone

With her third federal election triumph on Sunday, Sept. 22, German Chancellor Angela Merkel demonstrated that her preferred foreign policy direction is, well, inward -- or at least one of non-in...

September 9, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Has the EU Abandoned the US on Military Action in Syria?

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s forceful push for European countries to join a coalition to strike Syria militarily, to deter its use of chemical weapons, is stumbling. France r...