Day: April 16, 2020
Macron warns of EU unravelling unless it embraces financial solidarity
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Sens. Cruz, Coons Push For Increased US-Israel Medical Partnership To Combat COVID
Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) are joining bipartisan forces to push for an increased medical partnership with Israel in mitigating the coronavirus pandemic. Both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are also asking for $12 million to “enhance partnerships between companies in the United States and Israel to develop innovative […]
Why Coronavirus Hasn’t Stopped Iranian Aggression
By Irina Tsukerman April 16, 2020 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Hassan Rouhani, image via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,533, April 16, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In sum and substance, Iran has a clear objective, a strategy, and the willingness to invest and take risks to fulfill it. The US demonstrates exactly the […]
Hezbollah is fully prepared for war with Israel: top official
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Iran’s regime will develop nuclear submarines says navy commander
“None of the international pacts ban using peaceful nuclear energy but the peace we are talking about doesn’t find meaning without maintaining defense readiness,” Rear Admiral Khanzadi said. BENJAMIN WEINTHAL APRIL 16, 2020 19:25 BERLIN -The head of navy for the Islamic Republic of Iran announced on Thursday that Tehran will build nuclear submarines. “It’s […]
COVID-19 is killing the EU. This patient may not recover
People are fed up, and angry. They have been told for decades that the future lies in “Europe”. Every single day of this awful pandemic proves that “Europe” is nowhere, and they can only rely on the nation state. Support for the EU in Italy has dropped 20 percentage points, and is barely above 50%. […]
Germany: Still Too Much Free Speech, Says the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance
by Judith Bergman April 16, 2020 at 4:00 am Europe has a large web of hate speech laws and policies, thanks in part to the efforts of ECRI — an unelected body — and the Council of Europe. Finally, ECRI “strongly welcomes the German government’s implementation of its recommendation [in ECRI’s fifth report on Germany] […]
Rivlin sends mandate back to Knesset, starting 21-day countdown to election
Rivlin sends mandate back to Knesset, starting 21-day countdown to election President Reuven Rivlin hands Knesset Speaker Benny Gantz the formal notice that his mandate to form a government is over, after the Blue and White party leader failed to do so by yesterday’s midnight deadline. For only the second time in Israel’s history, the […]
US accuses Iran of ‘dangerous’ harassment of US warships
11 Iranian naval vessels make ‘dangerous and harassing’ maneuvers, passing as close as 10 meters from American ships in Strait of Hormuz confrontation APToday, 7:34 am WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of 11 Iranian naval vessels made “dangerous and harassing” maneuvers near US ships in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait on Wednesday, in one case […]