How to Target the Islamic Republic Diplomatically
The International Atomic Energy Agency report released on Tuesday confirmed the West’s suspicions that the Islamic Republic is working on a nuclear weapons system. According to the the Vien...
Guido Westerwelle
Shalit’s Release Highlights Israel’s Democracy
Berlin — Analysts and terror experts outside of Israel have and will continue to second-guess the Israeli government’s decision to secure the release of one captive Israeli sol...
Op-eds
Is Germany a True Friend?
Next month, New York will host an event marking the 10th anniversary of another dark hour, the notorious UN-sponsored Durban world conference on racism, which became a platform for some of the wo...
Op-eds
Rift Widens As Germany Alienates NATO Allies
Germany's decision to abandon its Western allies by abstaining on the UN Security Council's March vote to approve a no-fly zone over Libya created a profound rift between Chancell...
Op-eds
Will Europe Break from Its Pro-Assad Course?
Berlin — Syrian president Bashar Assad’s ongoing destruction of the country’s pro-democracy movement has catapulted Europe into the spotlight, since the EU has unique financial...
Op-eds
Iran’s “Crimes Against Humanity”
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues his campaign to violently repress sexual minorities. “They asked me [at Columbia University in 2007] why you crack down on homosexua...
Op-eds
Concern over German Iran Policies
Only hours before Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu touched down in Berlin for talks last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration announced that it would stop pumping billion...
Op-eds
Boosting Israel’s Enemies
Only hours before German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government nailed a deal worth billions of Euros with the greatest...
Op-eds
Why Is Germany’s Angela Merkel Strengthening Enemies of Israel and the West?
Only hours before German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government did a deal worth billions with the greatest threat to Israe...
Op-eds
Why Is Germany’s Angela Merkel Strengthening Enemies of Israel and the West?
Only hours before German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government did a deal worth billions with the greatest threat to Isr...
Op-eds
Iran, Settlements Overshadow Netanyahu-Merkel Talks
Diplomatic fissures between Israel and Germany over Berlin's pro-Iran trade and bank policies, peace talks with the Palestinians, and Germany's endorsement of an anti-Israel UN resoluti...
Op-eds
German Firms Finance World Champ in Holocaust Denial’
BERLIN – The new president of Germany's 105,000-member Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, launched on Monday a withering attack on German companies, the Merkel administration an...
Op-eds
Why Has Germany Snubbed Obama over Iran Sanctions?
Berlin — According to a front-page story in the main German business daily the Handelsblatt, "Although [Iran] is subject to strict economic sanctions by the EU and USA, Germany helps in circumven...
Op-eds
Why Has Germany Snubbed Obama over Iran Sanctions?
Berlin — According to a front-page story in the main German business daily the Handelsblatt, “Although [Iran] is subject to strict economic sanctions by the EU and USA, Germany helps...
Op-eds
German Gov’t, Iranian Bank EIH Circumvent Sanctions’
BERLIN – New disclosures earlier this week have catapulted the scandal-plagued Hamburg-based Europäisch- Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), the German Foreign Ministry and Germany's Cen...
Op-eds
Deciphering German Foreign Policy Toward Israel and Iran
BERLIN – In the span of 48 hours last week, the German Foreign Ministry supported a Lebanese sponsored UN Security Council resolution which condemned Israeli settlement construction as "illegal,"...
Op-eds
Forget Arab Democracy, Let’s Pretend It’s about Israel
It is no coincidence that the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government, a non-standing member of the U.N. Security Council and an Iranian subsidiary, sponsored a resolution last Friday conde...
Op-eds
Germans to Turks to Mullahs: The Back Door
In all the excitement, it was easy to miss the fact that there were two very high level visitors to Iran late last week and then over the weekend: Turkish President Gul and German Foreign M...
Op-eds
This Time, President Obama Must Do More to Support Iran’s Protesters
The pro-democracy movements of Egypt and Tunisia brought tens of thousands of Iranians into the streets to protest their authoritarian regime on Monday. Although the Obama administration stood by...
Op-eds
Holland Pulls Ambassador from Teheran over Hanging
BERLIN – The Netherlands froze diplomatic relations with Iran last month because of the execution of Zahra Bahrami a Dutch-Iranian woman, and on Monday, The Hague recalled its ambassador to Teher...