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Spain: Ground Zero for Europe’s Anti-Israel Movement

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The proliferating anti-Israel activism, driven by the rise to power of the political far-left, is establishing Spain as the EU member state most hostile towards the Jewish state. A Madrid-based organization, Action and Communication on the Middle East

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Germany’s Migrant Policy: Why Trump was Right

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

According to the narrative peddled by the mainstream media, after a series of horrendous migrant crimes and string of deadly terrorist attacks perpetrated by newly-arrived Muslim migrants, towns and cities across Germany were reverting to some sort of

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Palestinians: How to Achieve a Better Life

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

"It's become safer to demonstrate against Israel than against Abbas or the Palestinian Authority. Israel is at least a country of law and order and they have human rights organizations and a powerful media and judicial system. We can only continue to

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A Canadian U-Turn on Iran?

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Most alarming to the U.S. has been Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's position on Iran, where the regime seems to want to increase its influence in Canada due to its proximity to the U.S. Trudeau has been enabling this penetration. The discord

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Why Democracies Should Support Tough U.S. Iran Policy

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

"On one level, Iran acts as a legitimate Westphalian state conducting traditional diplomacy... At the same time, it organizes and guides nonstate actors seeking regional hegemony based on jihadist principles: Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria; Hamas in

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Switzerland Welcomes Radicalization

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

There are approximately 250 mosques in Switzerland, but the authorities do not know who finances them. By rejecting the proposal compelling mosques to disclose who finances them, the Swiss authorities can now remain willfully blind. The Muslim World

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Turkey: Erdogan’s “Holy War” Obsession

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

When non-Muslims deny Muslim minorities the rights that Muslim-majority countries systematically deny non-Muslim minorities, extremist Muslims in Turkey seem to have the habit of threatening non-Muslim lands with holy war. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,

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Post-Ramadan Reflections on the Muslim World

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Muslims, in effect, are trapped in a state of bewilderment over how to repair their broken cultures, or how to build them anew -- when they are full of doubts about what is new, what is modern and what has been built by others belonging to a different

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Turkey: Glorification of Murder, Martyrdom and Child Soldiers

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The celebrations are not just about the glorification of guns and killing for national or religious purposes. The events are also marked by historic revisionism in which the genocide victims are blamed for their own extermination. There are many factors

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Palestinians: Victims of Arab Apartheid

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are now living in a Lebanese ghetto called Ain Al-Hilweh, and the world seems to be fine with that. No one cares when an Arab country mistreats and discriminates and kills Palestinians. But when something happens in the

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Gaza Media Coverage: Snipers and Lies

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

"We will take down the border [with Israel] and we will tear their hearts from their bodies." — Yahya Sinwar, Hamas political leader. "[W]hen we talk about 'peaceful resistance,' we are deceiving the public. This is a peaceful resistance bolstered by a

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Europe: Ramadan Roundup, 2018

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

In France, the government, which previously vowed to reduce foreign influences on the practice of Islam in the country, approved visas for 300 imams from Algeria and Morocco to lead Ramadan services in French mosques. "Every message, no matter how

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Salute to Two Intellectual Giants: Bernard Lewis and Richard Pipes

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Richard Pipes heaped scorn on those who romanticized Russian revolutionaries, whom he viewed as mere Bolshevik thugs who raised funds through a string of bank robberies and blackmail plots. Bernard Lewis had the intellectual courage to navigate the third

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The Turkish Race

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Observers of the Turkish experience are almost unanimous in thinking that Recep Tayyip Erdogan's leadership may have led to five new impasses. Two decades ago, Erdogan was the bearer of a new message of pluralism, power-sharing and give-and-take. Today,

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The Diplomatic Big Bang

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Diplomacy is changing before our eyes. "The unspoken objective is to constrain the U.S., and to transfer authority from national governments to international bodies. The specifics of each case differ, but the common theme is diminished American

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Refugees and the Arab States – Part Three

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Whereas refugees arriving under the UNHCR are entitled to be granted asylum and eventually citizenship, the UAE is clear from the start that it wants to send its refugees back home. Back home to what? To a half-ruined country still ruled by one of

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Sweden: “It’s Fun to Build a Mosque”

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The desire of Swedish authorities that the content of the Muslim call to prayer, also known as the Adhan, can be ignored and that the issue is only of noise levels is symptomatic of the way Swedish authorities in general approach the increasing

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Who Sanctions Russia? Not Germany.

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

While claiming to be appalled by Russia's behavior in Syria, Germany continues to push trade not only with Russia, but with Russia's partner in the Syrian genocide, Iran. A 2018 German intelligence report confirms that Iran is currently seeking nuclear

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The Final Nail in the ACLU’s Coffin

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The director of the American Civil Liberties Union has now acknowledged what should have been obvious to everybody over the past several years: that the ACLU is no longer a neutral defender of everyone's civil liberties; it has morphed into a

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The “Trump Doctrine” for the Middle East

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Trump has shown the strength of the United States and restored its credibility in a region where strength and force determine credibility. Trump more broadly laid the foundation for a new alliance of the United States with the Sunni Arab world, but he

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