Austrian Fascists Danced on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Approximately 3,000 fascists, including Marienne LePen, “celebrated” Holocaust day at an annual dance while the United Nations remembered its horrors. An equal number of demonstrators protested the annual ball in ...

Iran Says Europe Hurting Itself With Sanctions

Iran continues to claim it is reaping the rewards of European sanctions even amid a deep currency crisis that rocks Tehran. In fact, the oil ministry in Tehran claims the ...

French Socialist Party Nominee Hollande Mimics Obama’s “Change” Theme

Although French president Nicholas Sarkozy has not yet announced his candidacy, one can say that the French presidential campaign began today as Francois Hollande kicked off his campaign at Bourget ...

Turkey Out of NATO: Other Voices Discuss Turkey’s NATO Membership

by Daniel Pipes November 9, 2009 updated Jan 17, 2012 I raised the issue of Turkey’s continued membership in NATO in April 2009 at “Does Turkey Still Belong in NATO?“; ...

The Greek Crisis Resurfaces

The batch of downgrades on European credit, delivered over the weekend by Standard Poor’s ratings agency, prompted angry threats that Europe would have to create its own ratings agencies to ...

Iran Vows Revenge Against Israel, US and UK

Enraged Iranian officials are vowing retaliation against Israel, the US and the UK over the latest assassination of a nuclear scientist, 32-year-old Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan, in Tehran. A former Iranian ...

Denmark Takes EU Rotating Presidency with Many Handicaps

Denmark takes up the rotating EU presidency as the year begins, succeeding Poland. Denmark and its left-of-center government are taking the helm in most inauspicious circumstances. The main order of ...

French MP Valerie Boyer Is Threatened and Her Website Is Hacked by Turks

The aftershocks of the French National Assembly’s law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide continue. Valerie Boyer, an author of the bill and Vice President of the France-Armenia Friendship group, ...

Turkey & Israel – The End of the Affair

by Daniel Pipes December 22, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Military relations have been at the core of the Ankara-Jerusalem entente. These took off in February 1996when the two ...

Washington Post: Obama Waffling on Iran

The Washington Post castigated President Barack Obama in an editorial Friday for sending Iran “the wrong signals” in the showdown over its nuclear weapons program. “Iran has been showing signs ...