Europe Has Much to Learn from Israel about Combating Terror
Especially tactics pioneered by Palestinians.
August 24, 2017
After an Electoral Victory for the “Moderates,” Iran Shows No Sign of Moderating
A government at war with its own people.
When Hassan Rouhani won the race this summer for a second term as the Islamic Republic’s president, no small number of Western observers saw his victory as a triumph for the country’s “moderates,” whom Rouhani supposedly leads, and for the nuclear deal, which was ostensibly intended to encourage “moderation” within the regime. But Rouhani, since taking office, has fulfilled none of the promises he made to more liberal Iranians, and if anything the “hardliners” in the government have grown stronger. Elliott Abrams takes as an example Rouhani’s unfulfilled promise—from his first presidential campaign, in 2013—to free Mehdi Karroubi, a seventy-nine-year-old dissident, from house arrest:
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After an Electoral Victory for the “Moderates,” Iran Shows No Sign of Moderating
A government at war with its own people.
The U.S. Has Undermined Itself by Cutting Aid to Egypt
The right move, done the wrong way.
Raphael Lemkin, Who Coined the Term “Genocide,” Was an Ardent Zionist
A fact hidden from history.
A Novice’s Reflections on the Talmud, Five Years On
For those seeking to give Jewishness a deeper meaning, here is the place to start.