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Israel, UAE Deal Leaves the Left a Bit Flummoxed By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun To facilitate Thursday’s dramatic announcement of an agreement to normalize ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump played — whether intentionally or not — the old Jewish gambit of the rabbi… Trump Begins at United Nations a Course Correction On Iran Regime By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun This week marks the first stage of President Trump’s attempt at dealing a final, fatal blow to President Obama’s Iran deal. America’s United Nations team expects a Security Council vote on a draft resolution mandating an indefinite extension o… Lebanon Leaders May Have Quit — Not Hezbollah By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun To comprehend today’s resignation of the Lebanese government, amid country-wide unrest, it helps to think of the Who’s old line — meet the new boss, same as the old boss. In the case of Lebanon the boss’s name is Hezbollah. President Macron vis… Beirut in the Dark As Lebanon Lurches Toward New War By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun The Pyongyang-Seoul gap is often depicted in night-time pictures: the darkened, Communistic North versus the well-lit, free South. Something similar can now be said of the light gap, illustrated above, between Tel Aviv (above) and Beirut (below)…
Victorian England was not adverse to the aiding state, but with limits. By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun “Circumstances are beyond the control of man,” Benjamin Disraeli wrote, and he should know. He will be linked forever with the idea of One Nation Toryism, even though Stanley Baldwin coined the phrase in 1924 as a political ploy to limit Labo…
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun With weeks before the United Kingdom meets its self-imposed deadline to reach a midsummer trade deal with the European Union, Britain is on course for a “clean break” Brexit. “UK Close to Abandoning Brexit-EU Deal, Will Likely Leave Bloc Fully…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun “Israel’s attack on Osirak was a major mistake,” the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hans Blix, told me a while back. Mr. Blix, a Swede, had then just ended his stint as top United Nations arms inspector in Iraq. Wh…
Britons are more attached to conservative principles than Boris Johnson seems to appreciate By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun “Conservatism,” wrote Disraeli in his novel Coningsby, “assumes in theory that everything established should be maintained; but adopts in practice that everything that is established is indefensible.” Much like the Conservative Party in Britain to…
Security Council Seems To Reckon End of Trump Presidency Is Nigh By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun For the Trump presidency, the end is nigh. Or at least that’s what America’s “partners” believe as they consider the question of Iran. On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council convened to contemplate that question, but rather than Iran it… In Clangorous Era Press Is Ignoring Overseas Story By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun In the clangorous pre-electoral atmosphere created by the Covid 19 crisis and its economic consequences and the disorders that have followed the apparent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, some important foreign policy developments have been… 70 Years Later History Beckons From Korea War By PAUL ATKINSON, Special to the Sun What a tumler, that Kim Jong Un, or, as President Trump once called him, “Rocketman.” The North Korean dictator is threatening to send troops into the demilitarized zone that separates communist tyranny from the free Korean republic to the sout…
United Nations Is Asleep at the Switch By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun America’s diplomacy aimed at globalizing its “maximum pressure” Iran policy appears increasingly likely to flounder in the United Nations. Better strike a decisive blow to the nuclear deal instead. That’s the outlook in the wake of a new report by…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun As Attorney General Barr and General Michael Flynn battle in court to rescind the general's guilty plea, a deeper look deserves to be taken at the phone conversations that underlay the controversy. The calls were, in part, meant to protect the…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun In the immense and multifaceted controversy over the coronavirus pandemic, and in the midst of tumultuous pre-electoral events in the United States, the role of the Chinese government in inflicting this economic and public health disaster on the world…
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun Relax everyone. It turns out that Israel’s annexation of Judea and Samaria isn’t around the corner. Even as Jerusalem edges toward concluding the two-year political crisis that deprived the country of an elected government, the entire world is agha…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun For all the attention paid to the boom in use of the videoconferencing app Zoom, the big winner of the coronavirus lockdown so far may be a less work-oriented, more social Zoom competitor called Houseparty. Bloomberg News reports that Houseparty has…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun The coronavirus has had, at least, the unanticipated benefit of obscuring and diminishing the tedious public clamoring about climate change. It is a slightly redeeming virtue of crises that they tend to supersede and diminish previous crises; if a…
Snapback of Sanctions Is Being Eyed By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun It’s time to end the awkward legal endorsement of the Iran nuclear deal. That’s because the first so-called sunset clause built into the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action kicks in this Fall. That’s per the United Nations Security Coun…
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