Tag: tragger
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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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German Antisemitism Commissioner Fears Escalation of Anti-Israel Protests
The internet version of the German-language newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported on Saturday, May 4, 2024, concerning an anti-Israel protest that had occurred the day before on the campus of the Humboldt University in Berlin. One German official voiced the concern that the already widespread feelings of antisemitism could escalate into a protest movement on the…
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Conversion of Turkish Peoples Historically to Russian Orthodoxy Serves To Placate Tensions Between Russians and Turks
Russian internet site https://russtrat.ru, which serves as a propaganda organ for the Putin regime, published an article on its ‘analytics’ page addressing the commonly-held misconception that all Turks are Muslims. The Gagauz ethnic Turkic people are cited as a case in point of those who converted to [Russian] Orthodoxy. Also examined are other Turkic peoples…
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Greece – A Southern Europe Energy Hub
This post contains an abbreviated chronology of the development of the ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a means of supplying natural gas to the countries of Central and East Europe that have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This energy delivery route is being made possible in large part thanks to the efforts made by Greece to…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: Baerbock Calls for New Negotiations
German news agency, ZDF, using as its sources the German news agency, dpa, and the French news agency, AFP, published an article on its internet site on November 3, 2023, concerning the invitation by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (of the Alliance 90/Green Party) to Armenia and Azerbaijan to renewed negotiations under her mediation to…
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Israel: Demonstrations Demand Resignation of Government, Early Elections, mid-February 2024
Turkish internet news site Haber Global (HG) [World News] on February 17 filed the below article, reporting on recent demonstrations taking place across Israel that were demanding the resignation of the Netanyahu government and holding early elections. [Comment: The objective of my translations is to not only inform the reader of events seen from the…
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Shock for German Foreign Minister While in Ukraine, Hurriedly Returns Home, Late February 2024
The Haber Global [World News] Turkish news internet site reported on February 25, 2024, that German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, cut her trip to Ukraine in half because of security concerns. She was visiting the Black Sea port at Mykolaiv. The spokesperson for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Foreign…
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The Political Dangers of a Rift in the Relations of Blacks and Jews
This article, originally appearing in the February 7, 2024 edition of the New York Times, was featured on the Greek-language internet site of the Greek newspaper, Kathimerini, on February 13 under the banner of the New York Times|International Edition. The New York Times has maintained a 25-year partnership with Kathimerini, offering to its Greek subscribers…
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Türkiye will speak against Israel at the UN International Court, mid-February 2024 Report
The Russian internet news site mk-turkey.ru, which reports Turkish news in the Russian language, on February 11, 2024, issued an article taken from the Turkish news source, Haber Global [World News], which is based in Türkiye but owned by Azeri businessmen Elnur Abdullayev and Mammad Gulmammadov. The channel’s slogan is “The Free [as in ‘Independent’]…
The Dragon is Slain 