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The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East
The promise of democracy for Muslims offers something historically unparalleled. Where Islamist groups once dreamed of revolution, quietly developed paramilitary cells, and assassinated their secular opponents, mainstream Islamist groups today see elections as a means for society to maintain akhlaq; the mores that define good Muslims.
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Conflicting Definitions of ‘Pro-Israel’ on Either Side of the Atlantic
During a recent trip to Washington, I was introduced to an Israeli diplomat as the JPost's European Correspondent. The diplomat issued a tart reply laced with biting sarcasm: "My condolences." more...
Auf Wiedersehen, Mon Ami
As her buddy, Nicolas Sarkozy, leaves office, Angela Merkel is now left all alone. Can she still steer the European ship without a first mate? more...
Have We Learned from the Holocaust?
Earlier today, President Barack Obama delivered a Holocaust remembrance speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In remarks marked largely by the standard politically correct rhetoric, Obama spoke of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. more...
Banging the Tin Drum for Iran and Against Israel
Germany’s most famous living writer has unleashed an international debate by branding Israel the greatest threat to world peace. Günter Grass, author of the 1959 novel "The Tin Drum" and winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature, made the claim in an early April poem. more...
Iran and Hamas’ Swiss Enablers
I remember roughly two years ago in September of 2010 when Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and I uncovered the Swiss heavy earth-moving equipment company Ceresola TLS agreement with Rahab Engineering Establishment in Tehran. more...
The Europeans Play Checkers While the Iranians Play Chess
In Istanbul on Saturday, the first new talks opened since January, 2011 between the six major global powers and the Islamic Republic over its illicit nuclear weapons program. more...
Satanico Grass
Adesso la crisi ha travolto Grass. Secondo Benjamin Weinthal, fellow della Foundation for the Defense of Democracies e corrispondente da Berlino del Jerusalem Post, Grass incarna l’antisemitismo tedesco del post-Olocausto: more...
Good Evening, Brussels!
Good Evening, Brussels! discusses the Al-Qaeda-Iran relationship with Benjamin Weinthal. more...
Günter Grass: Always on the Wrong Side
Eighty-four-year-old Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass penned a poem entitled “What must be said” for Munich’s liberal daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, accusing Israel of planning a first strike on Iran to “extinguish the Iranian people.” more...
German Noble Laureate Günter Grass Loves Iran’s Clerical Regime
While Germany’s media are reporting non-stop on the country’s most famous contemporary writer—the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass—because of his “poetic” attacks on Israel’s right to defend itself... more...
Beating the Tin Drum Against Israel
One of Germany’s most famous novelists penned a pro-Iranian regime and anti-Israel poem Wednesday in German and Italian daily newspapers, declaring the Jewish state the greatest threat to global security and denying the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. more...
Something Rotten in Germany
On Wednesday, Germany’s most famous novelist penned a poem threat to global security. The 84-year-old atomic power Israel is endangering the already fragile world peace.” His poem, entitled “What must be said,” ran in the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Italy’s La Repubblica. more...
German Trial Shows al-Qaida Targeted Europe Economy
The third week of hearings to determine if Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, a German-Afghani, participated as a member of the terror groups al-Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan unfolded on Monday and Tuesday. more...
Al Qaeda’s Network in Iran
An al Qaeda cell slated to take part in one of the final plots ordered by Osama bin Laden made use of an Iran-based terror network that, according to the Obama administration, operates “under an agreement between al Qaeda and the Iranian government.” more...
Are Jews Safe in Europe?
French authorities brought a recent dramatic standoff with a crazed gunman to an abrupt end when they shot him dead in a house in the southwestern town of Toulouse. more...
German SPD Youth Group Calls for Attack on Iran if Sanctions Fail
Jerusalem Post journalist Benjamin Weinthal, who has thankfully returned to regular blogging, just posted about a potentially significant, albeit somewhat counter-intuitive, development on the German left. more...
Young Germans for Military Strikes Against Iran’s Nukes
While Germany’s social democratic leader and chancellor hopeful Sigmar Gabriel recently termed Israel an ‘Apartheid regime’ during his visit to Hebron, the Berlin youth chapter of the left-liberal party, Jusos, broke ranks with, according to their comments, the anti-Israeli hostility of the party’s leadership. more...
Europe’s Bishops Denounce Anti-Christian Mufti
A group of European Catholic Bishops breathed fresh air into countering the Saudi Grand Mufti’s call to “destroy all the churches” in the Gulf region. Last week, German and Austrian Roman Catholic bishops blasted Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Shaikh for his Islamic religious order... more...
Sweden’s Israeli Flag Burning and its Flirt with the Iran-Syria Complex
The burning of an Israeli flag in the heart of Stockholm’s bustling downtown shopping district this week coincided neatly with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s efforts to placate the Iranian regime. more...
Austria, Iran, and the Holocaust
The United Kingdom is widely considered to be the central hub of efforts to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist, largely because of anti-Israel trade unions, the loony extremist British Left, and a sizable segment of politically reactionary British Muslims. more...