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February 19, 2019

Deranged, or what?

Israel is this week supposed to be hosting a meeting of the four Visegrad Group countries, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, except that, thanks to an extraordinary spat, the Poles will no longer be there.The row started when the Jerusalem Post quoted Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the Polish nation had cooperated with the Nazis in the extermination of the country’s three million Jews. The reaction ...

February 18, 2019

Dealt a bad hand

For the first time, the US administration has given some sort of date when its long-awaited Palestinian-Israeli peace plan will roll out – or actually when it will not. At the recent Middle East security conference in Warsaw, Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, son-in-law of US President Donald Trump and part architect of the deal, reportedly confirmed behind closed doors that the administration will not release its peace plan ...

February 17, 2019

Hotel booking sites can make it so much easier to choose a destination for a holiday or streamline a business trip, but only if the public is able to trust them. This looks like it will happen soon. Major travel websites have agreed to change the way they do business after a UK investigation found some of them were deceiving users. They have now agreed to follow a common set ...

February 14, 2019

Russia’s internet chess game

THE Russian government plans to turn off direct connections to all internet routers outside its borders. The exercise, which is unlikely to last for more than a day or two, is supposed to allow Moscow to test its defenses against outside cyberattack. The shutdown does not in fact mean that Russians will suddenly find themselves unable to access servers around the world, but rather than they will reach those sites ...

February 14, 2019

As Bugs Bunny would have said: “Just one cotton-picking moment!” Newly elected Democrat congresswoman Ilham Omar has been damned for anti-Semitism and forced to apologize for two social media messages. Her “crime” was to write that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was using its financial and lobbying muscle to influence US politicians in support of Israel.It has long been a fact of Washington political life that major lobbying ...

February 13, 2019

Erdogan gets it wrong

It seems perfectly possible that the Chinese leadership set a trap for Turkey’s president. Somebody told Recep Tayyip Erdogan that a prominent Uighur musician had perished in one of the huge camps Beijing has established in China’s western and supposedly autonomous Xinjiang region.Erdogan, anxious to demonstrate his standing with the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow sponsor Qatar, thundered against the death of the musician Abdurehim Heyit and went on to ...

February 12, 2019

Hungarian Islamophobia

When five paintings supposedly by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler failed to sell at the Nuremberg auction this week, the main reason given was that they were probably fakes. However, there was no shame about trying to sell these pictures along with other Hitlerian memorabilia.Adolf Hitler was himself a fake, with his racist diatribes and megalomaniacal ambitions. Yet, astonishingly, the civilized, educated and urbane people of Germany, the country that gave ...

February 11, 2019

The Ifs and Buts of Bitcoin

It could be argued the only reason that crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin have been given any sort of house room by the markets is that, as a general rule, there is far too much money chasing too few attractive investments. And that word “attractive” is worth refining into its modern sense. By and large it no longer means, “safe” and “reliable” but “high return”. But with any security offering a ...

February 11, 2019

The fraying of relations between France and Italy is extraordinary. These are two west European countries who are neighbors, allies and - from fashion to football, tourism to culture - marquee names on the continent.The dispute is all of Italy’s making. It was Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio’s decision to show up unannounced near Paris last week for a meeting with a prominent yellow vest protester – one of ...

February 10, 2019

Anti-BDS bill is unconstitutional

TheUS Senate has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would give states legal cover to punish companies that choose not to do business with Israel or Israeli-owned enterprises. The bill, known as S 1, thus clears its first major hurdle in Congress. But the bill is trying to muzzle criticism of Israel at the expense of the US Constitution.The bill, which passed in a 77-23 vote, says US ...

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