West Germany

June 17, 2022 | LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Gabriel Scheinmann

U.S. Restraint Has Created an Unstable and Dangerous World

Decades of ignoring the menaces posed by Russia and China has led the West to a precipice.

April 4, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jack Sullivan

Priority #1 for NATO: Upgrading Air and Missile Defense in Eastern Europe

Russia’s launch of around 30 cruise missiles at a target in western Ukraine located just 12 miles from the Polish border came just one day after Moscow warned that convoys carrying Western arms...

February 3, 2022 | Robert Morgus, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Foreign Disinformation: What the US Government Can Start Doing Now

The Kremlin is engaged in a “global influence campaign to destabilize sovereign countries,” including the United States, the U.S. Treasury Department reaffirmed, as it slapped sanctions on four Ukrainians...

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.

July 13, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘No Jew in Germany’: German police assault Israeli professor

The police in the West German city of Bonn allegedly mistakenly beat an Israeli philosophy professor after a German of Palestinian origin attacked him because he was wearing kippah. Acco...

November 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Marxist-Leninist Party Sues German Banks Over BDS Account Closures

The Marxist-Leninist Party in Germany filed a lawsuit against the Deutsche Bank and the Postbank on Wednesday in the West German city of Essen, claiming the closure of the party's bank accou...

September 27, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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....

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...

August 30, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: BDS initiatives and their counter-efforts play out across Europe

Europe's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement has long percolated down through many layers of society. However, this month saw a range of countervailing forces designed to blunt the mo...

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...

December 12, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The Disinformation Age

Walter Cronkite, the great CBS anchorman from 1962 to 1981, was called “the most trusted man in America” — and polling supported that claim. He’d conclude his CBS Even...

January 16, 2013 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

The War Rages, The White House Ducks, Death Abounds

You know all this, of course, because you’ve been reading these blogs all along.  But as my mother used to tell me with her charming smile and melodious voice, repetition is the basis...

June 7, 2012 | James Kirchick Forward

Transylvanian Drama Over Fascist’s Ashes

In the scenic and enchanting lands of Transylvania, the ashes of a dead fascist have sparked a diplomatic incident. On May 27, the remains of Hungarian writer and politician Jozsef Nyiro...

August 3, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

The Circle of Evil

The story of the day comes from Germany.  It’s about comrade Horst Mahler, one of the leader...

June 28, 2011 |

Passionate About Jew-Hate

Germany's Left Party hard on Israel, remains silent on real human rights abusers

January 17, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

Fatal Intersection

Although many Americans and Europeans would like to believe that contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is an exclusive subsidiary of the Koran, the sharia, and other things tribal and Islamic, the...

January 7, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

German Left Party Seeks to Reintroduce Stalinism

“We can only find the ways to communism if we get started and try them out, whether in the opposition or in the government,” Gesine Lötzsch, co-president of the German Left Party...

November 12, 2010 |

Bush vs. Schröder

Observers of U.S.-German relations were probably not startled by former President Bush's disclosure in his memoi...

November 2, 2009 |

How The Wall Fell

When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it. They tore down that iconic wall not only with pickaxes, hamm...

April 16, 2009 | Clifford D. May |

Romancing the Jihad

Why are so many on the Left enamored with Islamism?