Eric Frey
By Eric Frey
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Opinion Beware Victimhood Becoming French Jewry’s Identity
It was inspiring to see nearly 200,000 people out on the streets of Paris and other French cities last weekend, protesting the grisly torture and murder of a young Jewish man at the hands of a gang of mostly Muslim immigrants. The massive public outcry against antisemitism, led by some of France’s leading politicians, echoed…
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Opinion Europe Should Leverage Aid To Coax Islamists to Moderation
As Hamas considers what to do with the majority of seats it won in last week’s Palestinian Legislative Council elections, one would expect it to listen particularly well to what the European Union and its member states have to say. After all, they are the ones primarily bankrolling the Palestinian Authority. Last year alone, Europeans…
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Opinion Sea of Distrust Watering Down Euro-Mediterranean Ties
As soon as European monitors took up their positions at the newly opened Rafah checkpoint last month, European Union diplomats started speaking of a new chapter in the difficult relationship between Israel and Europe. Not surprisingly, the honeymoon ended barely after it had begun. The leak last week of a controversial E.U. report, which heaped…
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News E.U. Bids Big on Palestinians, But Hamas Card Still Unplayed
FORWARD FORUM The European Union gave more than 2 billion euros in aid to the Palestinian Authority during the 1990s. A lot of the funds were stolen or wasted, and what the rest of them bought — including an airport, a port and dozens of public buildings — went up in flames after the second…
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News Failed Iran Diplomacy Shows America Must Offer Security
It may have been the biggest disaster for European diplomacy since the Balkan wars in the early 1990s. After years of delicate negotiations with Iran to convince the mullahs to abandon their quest for nuclear weapons, last week the “EU3” group of Germany, Britain and France made a final offer to Tehran — give up…
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