Sharansky: Europe must demand refugees‘ acceptance of its values
Natan Sharansky has come a long way since the gray winter day in 1986 at Berlin’s Glienicker Brücke where a spy-swap deal landed him...
Women dominate Israel’s judicial debate
Israeli women may be slightly behind Europe’s in terms of parliamentary presence – slightly less than a quarter of the Knesset as opposed to...
Assad victory changes Israeli strategy
Syria’s current tragedy began with a farce. In one of the most embarrassing journalistic flops ever, American lifestyle magazine Vogue celebrated across several glossy...
120 Years After the 1st. Zionist Congress: a Reconsideration
On August 29, 1897, about 200 people met in Basel, Switzerland, invited by a Viennese journalist, Theodor Herzl, to what later came to be...
Iran’s hardliners living on borrowed time
Russia’s communist revolution took 70 years to expire. Iran’s Islamist Revolution, now 38, is now taking the same course.
“To get rich is glorious,” said...
Israel eyes Central Europe as counterweight to EU
Refusing to admit that the students it was clubbing and arresting in winter 1968 were demanding freedom, Poland’s communist leaders offered a convenient excuse:...
How Hamas drives the Gaza Strip into ruin
Alexander the Great’s army was so feared by the time he was marching from Syria to Egypt, that city after city surrendered to him...
Why Syria is at war
“Death a thousand times to the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Syrian president Hafez Assad in 1982 as the veteran Islamist movement inspired a rebellion against...
The Islamist battle against modern civilization
There is no neutrality when it comes to terror, said former Swiss president Samuel Schmid, when asked whether his famously neutral country can be...
What the German Government (and many Israelis) do not quite understand...
A serious diplomatic confrontation between Israel and Germany took place during the recent visit of the Foreign Minister of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, on Tuesday,...