Thanks to lockdowns and online learning, the world of Ladino is now flourishing, leading many to reassess whether they’d been too eager over the years…
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The U.S. has slapped sanctions on Turkey. Europe is losing patience with Erdogan. Relations with Russia and Iran aren’t rosy, and Ankara shouldn’t count on…
There’s a better way for Biden and Israel to contain Iran’s regional meddling and its nuclear aspirations – with the added benefit of clipping the…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
A new central bank governor and finance minister won’t mean anything as long as the president is enforcing his destructive policies Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The campaign by the leaders of Pakistan and Turkey against blasphemy and free speech in France, aided by their cynical abuse of the Holocaust, is…
Pakistan and Turkey’s campaign against free speech in France, aided by a cynical abuse of the Holocaust, is duplicitous in the extreme. With extremist Muslim…
Common wisdom asserts that Jews and Armenians are natural allies, bound by a ‘covenant of fate.’ But that’s not at all how Israel sees its…
Israel has a lot at stake in the eastern Mediterranean. Would Biden deal with Ankara’s aggression differently from Trump? Can Israel rely on him –…
Amid the Nagorno-Karabakh war, an Armenian Jewish friend came over to my home in Yerevan. She is anguished. ‘Armenians are David,’ she says, and asks:…
Thanks to the Gulf, Israel no longer needs its oil-for-arms alliance with a Baku in bed with Erdogan’s ultranationalist military adventurism. For moral and strategic…
The real problem Erdogan has with the UAE and Bahrain’s normalization deals with Israel is how little Turkey now matters Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The real problem Erdogan has with the UAE and Bahrain’s normalization deals with Israel is how little Turkey now matters Source: https://www.haaretz.com
COVID-19, economic crises, the Beirut blast, public anger at Hezbollah, a pipeline and a railway, the UAE and Bahrain are all pushing Lebanon towards the…
Faced with economic shambles, a static political base and brewing conflict in the Mediterranean, Erdogan is investing in propaganda videos that glorify his ‘New Turkey’…
Economic shambles, a static political base, brewing conflict in the Mediterranean? According to Erdogan’s alarming new propaganda video, the ‘New Turkey’ has the answers: the…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Faced with a determined anti-Turkey alliance in the Mediterranean and beyond, and economic shambles, Erdogan’s grandiose, belligerent ambitions are struggling. But Ankara will double down,…
Boosted by binge viewing during India’s coronavirus lockdown, two international TV series have won fanatic fans. Behind the small screen is a geopolitical drama starring…
‘Hagia Sofia first, then Al-Aqsa’: Erdogan’s decree is a personal ideological triumph that won him global Islamist plaudits and muted international backlash. But it could…