Reading the UNGA tea leaves
America’s enemies and adversaries reveal their intentions
Turkic peoples
Mahmoud Abbas’ Jewish problem
Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis
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Guess the new Human Rights Watch director’s first target. Yup: Israel
For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan. Within days of taking office, she turned her fire on Israel. “This is a government that’s...
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The Axis of Tyrannies
It will present an enormous challenge to free nations
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How international law dies
It’s flouted by despots and weaponized against small nations
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The fall of the Golden Arch Theory
Enriching tyrants doesn’t prevent wars after all
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How “Never again!” became “never mind”
To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter
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The empires strike back
America is threatened by neo-imperialists
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President Biden had options
He chose the worst of them
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Despots dominate the WHO and the UNHRC
American engagement alone cannot fix UN agencies
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Recalling the Holocaust is insufficient
The UN fails to name those threatening genocide or threatened by genocide
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Europe capitulates to China’s rulers
The EU undermines its own interests and those of its ally across the pond
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Erdoğan’s Interests Converge with Putin in Moldova’s Gagauzia
BACKGROUND: On October 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan touched down in Chisinau for a ...
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The China syndrome
Pollsters at the Pew Resear...
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Ankara’s Turkmen House of Cards
The Mosul operation has made the predominantly Turkmen city of Tal Afar the latest focus of Turkey a...
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The Potential of a Chinese Terror Threat
Eighteen billion dollars in new contracts were signed during the fifth China-Eurasia Exp...
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The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey
Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question: How are the most dynam...
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Skirmishes on the Indian front
What do you make of this month’s attacks on Pathankot Air Force Station and Bacha Khan University? My guess is you don’t know -- you’ve heard next to nothing about either....
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Erdoğan’s Boomerang
With Turkey approaching its second election in five months, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once again emerged from his gargantuan palace to campaign for the ruling Justice and Development Pa...
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Turkish Grey Wolves Target ‘Chinese’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing came at an awkward time. So far this month, Turkish ultranation...