Rome
Avoiding a Self-Inflicted Wound in the Sinai
Washington Should Avoid a Self-Inflicted Wound in the Sinai
Withdrawing from the Multinational Force and Observers might be penny-wise, but would certainly be pound-foolish.
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EU should sanction Iranian airlines exporting coronavirus and terror
Amid a global coronavirus pandemic, two Iranian airlines sanctioned by the United States for “secretly ferrying operatives, weapons, and funds” to Syria have flown dozens of times between China,...
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Midterm Assessment: Libya
U.S. Balanced Approach on Libya: A Good Step Forward But Not Enough
For years, the United States has distanced itself from the national reconciliation process in Libya, adopting a ...
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Our Incoherent Lebanon Policy
State building is the core of US policy in Lebanon. As part of this chimeric policy, now over a decade old, Washington has been throwing hundreds of millions of dollars a...
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Trump Faces Pivotal Decisions on Iran Sanctions
The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement faces a potentially fateful week, with a series of deadlines a...
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Italy Bars PFLP Terrorist And BDS Advocate Leila Khaled
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled was barred from entering Italy on Wednesday on the grounds that she lacked a valid visa. Olga Deutsch, Europe Desk director at the Jerusalem-...
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Replacing patriotism with tribalism
Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...
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A bloody day in London town
“The Kafir’s Blood Is Halal For You, So Shed it.” That’s just one of the catchier headlines in a recent issue of ...
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Palestinian Terror Group Backer Teaching at German University, Sparks Row
University of Hamburg appoints as guest professor Farid Esack, who is the chairman of BDS South Africa
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Why Hasn’t ISIS Blown Up Rome?
At lunch the other day, a smart man asked me how come there hadn’t been terrorism in Italy, even though Islamic State keeps promising to attack the Vatican. You’ve undoubtedl...
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The Pope’s War
It’s not a religious war, according to His Holiness. Economic, yes. Political, sure. But not religious, because religious people want peace. That’s what he sai...
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Brexit Is Not A British Revolution; It’s Part Of A Global Revolt
I’m not much of an expert on Great Britain; when I took my doctoral exams at the University of Wisconsin in Western European History, the Brits weren’t included. We...
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Another Eulogy
Odds are you’ve never heard of Marco Pannella, the longtime leader of the Italian Radical Party, who died last week in Rome. He was 86, quite surprising for one of the country’s...
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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...
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What Makes A Great President?
We moved to Washington from Rome early in 1977, and I worked at CSIS, then home to many luminaries of the Republican Establishment. There was a lot of talk about Ronald Reagan, running for the Re...
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The Islamist wears Dolce & Gabbana
In the “culture” section of the venerable Atlantic magazine last month, there was a news item I wouldn’t want you to miss: “The Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana h...
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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...