Will the Russia-Ukraine War lead to World War III?
So far, the conflict has remained within manageable bounds for the international community, but the prospect of further conflagration is not far off.
Nazi Germany
Mahmoud Abbas’ Jewish problem
Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis
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Good Luck With That Grand Strategy
Even the most comprehensive plans are bound to fail if leaders can’t build support for them.
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Renewing NATO
Peace requires deterrence which requires military might
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Let’s turn the tables on Russia’s information warfare with some of our own
Vladimir Putin delivers an address every May 9 to celebrate Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II — what Russians dub the “Great Patriotic...
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More outrageous UN anti-Semitism: High-level official says Israel to blame for Palestinians murdering Jews
A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem plowed his car into a busy Jerusalem bus stop Friday, killing three Israelis, including 6- and 8-year-old brothers. The response from Francesca Albanese, the United...
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Anything goes
Extremist ideologies are proliferating
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How the US can drain China’s brain
The prospect of a military conflict with the United States is not what keeps Chinese leader Xi Jinping up at night. Instead, Xi fears an American technology blockade will derail his country’s development,...
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Shaping the future of the world
Either we do it or our enemies do it
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Putin supports NATO
He’s revitalizing a beneficial international community
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Israel Is Not Russia, and Palestinians Are Not Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine set off an immediate wave of boycotts and sanctions targeting Moscow. These swift and comprehensive economic punishments have left the frustrated activists of the Boycott,...
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Why the IOC Doesn’t Deserve Gold for Its Olympics Campaign
While more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities suffer mass detention, forced labor and torture in Xinjiang in western China, many of the world’s greatest athletes competed in Beijing at the...
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The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question
Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates
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Syria’s challenge to Tony Blinken’s conscience
Excerpt The Nazi massacre at Babyn Yar claimed the lives of 33,771 Ukrainian Jews in September 1941. To mark the 80th anniversary of the massacre, Secretary of State Antony Blinken meditated on the...
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Introducing How to Fight Anti-Semitism in Arabic
Ideas Beyond Borders asked me to write a forward to Bari Weiss’s book How to Fight Anti-Semitism, which the organization is translating to Arabic. The lines below are a rough translation to English of...
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German Appeasement Of Khamenei Endangers Iranians And The World
Back in 2008, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Germany Loves Iran” and a piece headlined “Berlin ♥ Iran III” that covered workshops designed to help companies boost trade with...
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The Divided Self of John le Carré
The death of perhaps history’s greatest espionage writer John le Carré in December 2020 sparked a series of lively debates about the British novelist’s contradictory views toward Zionism, Jews and...
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Skinheads, Saints, and (National) Socialists
An Overview of the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement