The European Union was quick to condemn Hezbollah in words but when it comes to action, it will be more difficult to get a consensus vote on sanctions from the 27-member organization.
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The European Union was quick to condemn Hezbollah in words but when it comes to action, it will be more difficult to get a consensus vote on sanctions from the 27-member organization.
1 commentsAccording to conventional wisdom, the stronger and more successful economically China becomes, the more cooperation grows and the greater the doubts about the ability of the United States to stand behind Taiwan, the more the momentum toward 'One China' will increase.
0 commentsA recent visit to Turkey yielded a number of insights about the sultan/statesman Erdogan, and his attitude to Israel.
13 commentsFor all Obama's flaws, the world still prefers Obama over Romneyahu.
4 commentsJust as Catalonia will soon be the state of the Catalan people, Israel is first and foremost the state of the Jewish people. There is no future for a binational state. Neither a federation nor a confederation, nor autonomy, nor cantons.
4 commentsWhen the world's eyes are focused on Jerusalem and Tehran, could it be that evil will come from another direction entirely? A new book suggests that the next global conflict may be with China.
1 commentsSchoolteachers have long complained about the difficulties of teaching this chapter in French history. 'The Holocaust is not the history of the Jewish people; it is history, our history,' said Hollande.
1 commentsPolitical union? Britain will hightail out of there long before that. And Nick? Well, he will probably return to look for his old friends.
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The Israel of 2012 is a glass house. A house of racism. Who will heed its cries? Who will listen to its exhortations?
3 commentsWhile recent statements by the German President on his country's relationship with Israel made no waves here, they created a surprising uproar in the president's homeland.
0 commentsRussia's basic Middle East policies won't change, nor will Israel exchange its alliance with the United States for one with Russia.
3 commentsMarine Le Pen is not capable of breaking away from her father's heritage and the Vichy-ist and anti-Semitic core of her party.
11 commentsWho's better - French President Nicolas Sarkozy or his rival, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande?
0 commentsHistory teaches us that at the end of the day, pragmatism trumps ideals, which are the sole province of the opposition. The French-German partnership is stronger than any personnel changes.
1 commentsSerbia has generated dichotomous associations in recent years: At one end stands the best tennis player in the world, and on the other the most notorious war criminal Europe has known since World War II.
15 commentsMoscow's steely support of Assad is intended to allow it to stand strong and face the West as a world power in its own right. And there is nothing like an election campaign for standing up to the whole world and bringing back some good old-fashioned imperialism.
1 commentsStalinism, with all its terrible crimes, did not develop a racial theory and did not engage in the systematic slaughter of peoples. The balancing is a sin against history, which will not forgive cheapeners and distorters of the Holocaust.
5 commentsThe stability of the regime is more important to the Chinese than democracy and human rights.
0 commentsToday, when the Netanyahu-Lieberman duo wants to get closer to China and India - closer at the expense of 'irrelevant' West - it is a lesson that should be remembered.
4 commentsIn Taba Heights, the area of the luxury hotels, the atmosphere is bleak, the Three Corners has shut down, and the other hotels might follow in its footsteps.
0 commentsGermany is the only country in the eurozone the markets still trust; Europe must eliminate the threatening German shadow and distance them from the bloody wars of the past.
14 commentsEurope is viewed by Israelis as a continent subjugated by Islam, seeking to atone for its crimes of colonialism by punishing Israel as 'the new colonialist.'
2 commentsPoliticians like Le Pen have exchanged the Jewish demon-enemy for the criminal-immigrant Muslim, but they have not really discarded their ideological DNA.
23 commentsWith a genuine peace process, India will bring its relationship with Israel out of the closet.
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In the absence of a genuine peace process, Hollande, as empathetic as he might be to Israel, might find it difficult to deflect pressure within his party. In that case, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might end up longing for the flub-ups with Sarkozy.
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