Herb Keinon

November 29, 2021 | Eric S. Edelman, Aykan Erdemir

Turkey is Collateral Damage in Erdoğan’s Hostage Diplomacy

His erratic policies scare away tourists and foreign capital.

July 18, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Suspends Submarine Deal With Israel Amid Corruption Probe

Co-written by Anna Ahronheim. Amos Gilead, a decorated retired IDF general and defense official, testified on Tuesday before the police’s Lahav 443 investigative unit amid...

February 24, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Tough Times Inside the German-Israel Marriage

Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Israel on Monday with her full cabinet as part of the German-Israel government consultation meetings. Her second term (2009-2013) filled the “special rel...

August 26, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Turkey’s Pariah Sultan?

Yesterday, Katherine Connell covered in this spac...

July 9, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austria Considers Ban of Hezbollah’s Military Wing

Austria backtracked on Tuesday from its hard line position against a ban of Hezbollah within the EU, stressing its undecided position ahead of a late July foreign ministers meeting in Brussels to...

September 27, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Long War Journal

Will Europe Outlaw Hezbollah?

BERLIN -- The July suicide bombing of a bus full of Israeli tourists at the seaside Bulgarian resort of Bur...

April 9, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Nobel Laureate Günter Grass Loves Iran’s Clerical Regime

While Germany’s media are reporting non-stop on the country’s most famous contemporary writer—the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass—because of his &ldquo...

March 7, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal National Review Online |

Bibi, the Begin Doctrine, and the U.S.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech on Monday at the AIPAC conference reinforcing the Begin Doctrine — the preemptive-milit...

November 1, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

Lip Service is Not Enough

Pro-Israel conference in Frankfurt seeks to change the Merkel administration’s Iran policies.

August 16, 2010 |

Are Europe and Obama Finally Cracking Down on Turkey?

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his radical Islamic Justice and Development Party have remained remarkably immune from Western criticism, despite Erdogan's alliance with Mahm...

May 31, 2006 | MERIA Journal |

Putin and Russia’s Middle Eastern Policy

Auhtored by Ilya Bourtman Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently pursuing a two track policy towards the Middle East, allowing Russia to develop friendly ties with Israel...