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And Harry laments the royal life By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun Who among us cannot sympathize with Elizabeth II’s concern for her ailing husband, Prince Philip? “The Duke of Edinburgh yesterday underwent a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition at St Bartholomew’s Hospital,” the London Sun quotes…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun Anyone wondering about the wisdom of Britain’s exit from the European Union might find an answer by checking out the Covid-19 vaccination statistics available at OurWorldinData.org. The site reports that as of the beginning of March, the United…
By BENNY AVNI, Second Edition “Bon jour,” was how an eager, cheerful reporter greeted Linda Thomas Greenfield shortly after the new American ambassador presented her credentials to the United Nations Secretary General. It was an apt welcome to a building at the heart of midtown…
Humiliating Prince Could Bring Unintended Consequences By KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE, Special to the Sun President Biden is seeking to burnish his human rights credentials — and once again distinguish himself from Donald Trump — by putting a bullseye on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Playing politics with an ally in such a dangerous part of the…
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun Not since the days of Benjamin Disraeli has a prime minister’s wife been cause for such conversation as has Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancée. “Is Carrie Symonds really a Downing Street manipulator — or a shrewd supportive partner?” asks the…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun Monday’s injury of an American GI and the death of one of our military contractors working with American forces at the heart of Iraqi Kurdistan should be seen as an early Iranian test of President Biden. The American president’s first, and cautious…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun President Macron of France has now warned his countrymen of the menace of American academic and media “woke” thinking and of identity politics as a formula for social oppression and disunity. France is officially focused entirely on the integration of…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun Canada absolutely has to retaliate for the outrageous and cavalier cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. The millions of Canadians who celebrated President Donald Trump’s departure from the White House may start to wonder if the new era is quite…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun Could the next Muslim majority country to make peace with Israel turn out to be — wait for it — Iran? “I believe it will happen, and soon,” says Abdol Hamid Maasoumi Tehrani. It sounds farfetched, and even Mr. Tehrani acknowledges that it would be…
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun Is it time to be canvassing for the next leader to take up the conservative banner? Americans are already maneuvering over who will carry the GOP banner in the next presidential contest in 2024. The query is no less pertinent to members of the…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun Eying the new administration in Washington, Ramallah is promising full democracy in Palestine. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, has declared parliamentary and presidential election in June and July respectively. It’s an old trick…
Bows To Impending Transition to Biden Administration By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun The State Department announced today the cancelation of international travel to all diplomats, citing the ongoing transition to the incoming Biden administration. Too bad, at least for friends of Free China. Hours earlier America’s ambassador to the…
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun No one will accuse Nigel Farage of letting the grass grow under his feet. Now that the United Kingdom is free from subservience to the European Union, a fact of independence largely due to Mr. Farage, the leader of the Brexit movement is taking the…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun How can America top its success helping Arab countries make peace with Israel? Well, witness Tuesday’s Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Riyadh. Although details are murky, a new pact opens sea, land, and air borders between Saudi Arabia and Qatar…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun Why is Israel, of all countries, so far ahead of the rest in terms of getting its population vaccinated against Covid-19? As I write the University of Oxford’s “Our World in Data” chart shows Israel with a pace-setting 14 doses administered for each…
A Challenge Gathers From Former Netanyahu Allies By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun This time it’ll be different. Like the last time. And the time before that. Like it or not, Israel is headed for yet another national election in March 2021, the fourth round in less than two years. Will this time end Benjamin Netanyahu’s reign as the…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun As sane Americans reluctantly resign themselves to the approach of an unimaginable Joe Biden presidency, the unrelenting blitzkrieg of media Trump-hate is occasionally, but each week more frequently, punctured by glimmers of recognition of what the…
A Bitter James Baker, Who Failed on the Western Sahara, Urges Biden To Rescind the Deal By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun As the Moroccan ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, lit candles Thursday alongside his Israeli counterpart, Gilad Erdan, some in Washington tsk-tsk’d about the Western Sahara. Like the Israeli-Palestinian territorial disputes, the fight…
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