What Does Today’s German Election Mean For Israel?
The German federal election on Sunday has tremendous significance for Israel, largely because the Federal Republic is one of Israel’s most important allies within the European Union....
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Can Trump Make Mideast Peace Without Gaza?
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will visit the White House this week for the first time in three years. By all accounts, his host is eager to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. &ldqu...
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Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies
Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter’s meetings with the Jihadist organization Hamas have catapulted his policies into a critical spotlight in the central European country...
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German Chancellor Merkel’s party labels BDS antisemitic
Germany's Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement because the anti-Israel action is antisemitic. &ldqu...
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“Political correctness” aims at a new target
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic novel about a totalitarian and dystopian future, the ruling Party develops “Newspeak” as way to limit freedom of e...
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Joining Hezbollah: An Insider’s Account
In late December 2015, Lebanese journalist Carol Malouf held an in-depth interview with two Hezbollah captives of Jabhat al-Nusra. The intervi...
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Divisions within Turkey’s Opposition Extend Erdoğan’s Rule
The Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s main secular opposition against the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), held its party congress last month, where it...
Policy Briefs
Sultan of Turkey: Erdogan’s Shameless Power Play
Co-authored by Gabriel Mitchell A row erupted within Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on March 21, after the deputy prime minister brazenly condemned Pr...
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Analysis: What Does Angela Merkel’s Election Win Mean for Israel?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s third consecutive electoral victory has profound consequences for Israel’s support in Europe and its security cooperation with the Federal Repu...
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Israel’s January Surprise
The pundits were wrong: Israeli voters aren't lurching to the right.
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In Defeat, Georgia’s President Confounds his Critics
Mikheil Saakashvili's conciliatory reaction to his party's loss in the election seems to prove his critics wrong.
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The Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
A Trip Report (Turkey, August 10-30) Background The trip was arranged for the purpose of helping an independent American film company do...
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Bitter Harvest: China’s ‘Organ Donation’ Nightmare
When Wang Lijun made his break for the US consulate in Chengdu on the night of February 6th, he was in a unique position to reveal a series of damaging stories about...
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Brotherhood Representative Won’t Speak to Israeli Journalist
News channel France 24 hosted a panel Monday night to discuss Egypt’s first civilian president, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi. One of the guests on the panel, via satellite f...
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Hungary’s Pit Bull Prime Minister
How one of Europe’s most celebrated anti-communists become the bad boy of the continent.
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Fallible
In June, Hezbollah announced that it had captured two, perhaps three, CIA spies who had infiltrated its organization. Last week, the story finally made...
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Passionate About Jew-Hate
Germany's Left Party hard on Israel, remains silent on real human rights abusers
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São Tomé and Príncipe: An African Exception?
That the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe might somehow escape the various "traps" – ethnic conflict, the "resource curse," poor governance, etc. – en...
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Enabling Mugabe to Cling On
Last Friday was the twenty-eighth anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence, although the country's long-suffering people of the country might be forgiven for not exactly marking the occas...
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Germany Smacks Israel With Critical Resolution on Flotilla Raid
All parties in the German Parliament passed a resolution last Thursday slamming the Jewish state for its interception of a flotilla heading for Gaz...