Posts Tagged: Angela Merkel
Is National Guilt Making Germany More Vulnerable to Terrorism?
From the moment it became clear that the mass killings at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz Christmas market were the actions of a Muslim terrorist, accusatory fingers have pointed at German Chancellor...
Obama, Merkel and ‘The Right Side of History’
“US Sends Iran Two More Loads of Cash." So blared the headline on the front page of the September 7 issue of The Wall Street...
Erdogan Expands His Assault on Journalists Beyond Turkish Borders
Ebru Umar was angry. A Dutch journalist of Turkish heritage, she has been known to take that anger to the page. On the night of...
Forgetting History: Is Angela Merkel Appeasing Turkey’s Erdogan?
No one interested in political affairs is likely to forget the nature and the consequences of the appeasement policy in 1938 of British Prime Minister...
Bernard-Henri Lévy: A Fateful Choice for Europe
One country of the European Union recalls its ambassador from another country of the Union. Another, or the same, becomes, in defiance of every rule...
What the Europeans Can Learn From Israel About Security
In recent decades, Israel has made ongoing efforts to reduce its vulnerability, frequently using risk analysis to do so. Persistent violent attacks by Palestinians and...
Obama’s Foreign Policy Will Damage America for Decades
Any administration's national security strategy written for public consumption inevitably involves platitudes, vacuous rhetoric and self-congratulation. But the strategy announced last week for President Obama's...
Merkel Says Israel Boycott ‘Not an Option’ for Germany
JNS.org - In a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her government's...
Merkel Says Two State Solution is Essential for Israel’s Security
Ynet - Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she is visiting Israel with most of her new cabinet in order to show Germany's friendship with the...
Merkel Told Obama NSA Spying Was Like the ‘Stasi’
The Guardian - In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous...
Germany: Up to 970 Artworks in Seized Collection Likely Looted by Nazis From Jewish Owners
The German government has determined that between 590 and 970 of the more than 1,400 artworks discovered in a Munich apartment last year were likely...
An Open Letter to Angela Merkel: Kristallnacht is Still Relevant Today in Germany
Madam Federal Chancellor, We are about to mark the 75th anniversary of the KristallnachtReichspogrom (the Night of Broken Glass State Pogrom) which is considered the prelude...
Merkel: Support for Israeli Security is Part of German ‘National Ethos’
JNS.org - German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced one week before her country's upcoming federal elections that "Germany's support for Israel's security is part of...
Polish Magazine Cover Shows German Chancellor in Concentration Camp
A spat between Germany and Poland revolving around World War II-era culpability escalated on Tuesday when a conservative Polish weekly news magazine, Uwazam...
