FM Avigdor Lieberman: Turkey Should Apologize, Not Israel

In light of reports that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may apologize to Turkey for the flotilla incident of this past May, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman takes the offensive and calls ...

France May Recognize Unilateral PA Country

by Chana Ya’ar France has threatened to recognize a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Palestinian Authority if final status talks with Israel are “delayed.” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner ...

Germany Will Not Allow Tehran to go Nuclear

A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, Germany’s new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on his first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Guido Westerwelle, of the Free Democratic Party, ...

Turkey: An Ally No More

by Daniel Pipes The foreign ministers of Turkey and Syria met in Aleppo in October 2009. “There is no doubt he is our friend,” Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, ...

Turkey TV Show Depicts IDF as Child Murderers

Turkey, Israel’s erstwhile ally in the north which abruptly called off a joint air exercise with Israel this week, is broadcasting a TV series depicting IDF soldiers as child killers. ...

Peace Process or War Process?

by Daniel Pipes Middle East Quarterly Fall 2009 When Barack Obama announced in June 2009 about Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, “I’m confident that if we stick with it, having started early, that ...