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February 9, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Slams Germany for Refusal to Extradite Turkish Terrorist to America

Germany's legal system, according to critics, has earned a reputation over the years as being overly lenient toward terrorists involved in the murder of US officials and Israelis.

June 13, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Ronald Reagan’s freedom agenda

Ronald Reagan was tough on totalitarians. On March 8, 1983 -- and to the chagrin of many of his advisors – he disparaged the Soviet Union as an...

November 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Slams BDS Rally On Kristallnacht Remembrance Day

Berlin Mayor Michael Müller issued a scathing condemnation of the anti-Israel boycott campaign because of its protest against the Jewish state on Friday, the memorial day for the Kristallnac...

December 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian Kurds Join the Fight

Co-written by Jonathan Spyer The instability that has swept over the Middle East over the past half-decade has its winners and its losers. For the most part, the much-...

October 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel

The historian Jeffrey Herf's profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing terrorism targeting Israel was not a tactic but rather part of a long-war strategy to destroy the Jewish s...

May 1, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Controversial ‘Tin Drum’ Author Grass Dies at 87

German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-should...

January 27, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Is Germany Ignoring the Lessons of the Holocaust?

Berlin - German politicians and world leaders marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Tuesday with didactic warnings about preserving the memory of the Holocaust. ...

December 26, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Cold War Christmas Messages We Must Not Forget

Too often these days, the Cold War is treated as ancient history — as something from a simpler age of the world. It ended years before the advent of the high-speed Internet, Google and Face...

November 10, 2009 | American Thinker |

One Wall Falls, Another Rises

By Dr. Walid Phares The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a benchmark that made an impression on me, as it did on millions of people around the world. The sight of thousands o...

February 26, 2009 | |

Obama The Appeaser?

Imagine Reagan tearing down 'that wall' with 'engagement.'