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Watching genteel Bundestag ladies and gentlemen speechifying, often with forceful words and gestures but mostly polite, it is hard to imagine that their topic is war or peace, possibly world war or peace, even atomic war or peace. A key word was Taurus, Latin for “bull.
BERLIN—Looking down from my window onto Berlin’s broad Karl-Marx Allee boulevard a week ago Friday, I saw hundreds and hundreds of green tractors moving in two disciplined lines towards central Brandenburg Gate.
BERLIN – Germany’s Left Party is splitting in two. Is it a tragedy or a new hope? After months, in fact years of inner-party squabbling in Germany’s LINKE party (The Left), the die has been cast, the Rubicon crossed, and Sahra Wagenknecht, with nine other Bundestag deputies, has quit the party...
As they have just done the U.S. celebrates Veterans Day every November. Now all leading German parties also want such a “Veteranentag” to honor all those past patriots who wore uniforms, voluntarily or not, and certainly to inspire many more reluctant young men or women to put on army boots and...
BERLIN - Every day I must review my conclusions and judgements regarding the Gaza events. The killings and kidnappings of October 7 were bloody crimes which should never be applauded or condoned. All demands that the kidnap victims be returned safely are fully legitimate.