Experts blasted a major German newspaper’s recent usage of Nazi-like terminology to blame Israel for Palestinian terrorist attacks, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday in The Jerusalem Post. Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany’s largest broadsheet, recently published an article titled “Israel suffers for its cycle of revenge” by its Jerusalem correspondent Peter Münch. The...
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As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met with French President Francois Hollande and signed major business deals in Paris, thousands marched in protest of human rights abuses carried out by Tehran, Reuters reported on Thursday. Rouhani’s visit to France was the first by an Iranian president since 1999. While the countries...
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The nuclear deal with Iran “will neither make the Middle East safer nor fundamentally change the nature of the Iranian regime and its conduct in the region,” former Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Maria Terzi wrote in an op-ed for Politico Europe on Wednesday. Terzi, who also served as Italy’s ambassador to...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to discuss opportunities to leverage newly discovered gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with the aim of increasing regional stability and security, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. “Our states share the same values as well as...
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the “Israel lobby” for American hostility towards Tehran, Reuters reported Wednesday. Friendlier relations between the Islamic Republic and the United States are possible, but “the key to that is in Washington’s hands, not Tehran’s,” Rouhani said at a press conference in Rome. The Iranian leader, who is...
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The Swiss government is facing increased criticism over an alleged agreement it secretly made with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1970 to offer the group diplomatic support in exchange for an end to terrorist attacks on its territory, the BBC reported on Friday. The deal, detailed in an upcoming book...
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