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IN THIS ISSUE: Reflections on Europe and Israel from Bret Stephens, Fiamma Nirenstein, Sharon Pardo, Michel Gurfinkiel, Bat Yeor and Daniel Kumermann
BRET STEPHENS: Europe and Israel: What went wrong?
In the summer of 2002, I was invited to a briefing at the King David Hotel on the subject of European-Israeli relations.
SHARON PARDO: Narrowing gaps
Since the establishment of the European Economic Community in 1957, Israel and Europe have been playing a double game of economic passion and political hostility.
FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN: Seeds of destruction
The small bombs that exploded during the past few days in the face of the European community, first in Bologna at President Mario Prodi, then at Trichet, president of the Central European Bank, and lastly at the Europol of AJA, fortunately did not hurt anyone, yet they could not have been more symbolic.
MICHEL GURFINKIEL: The French devolution
Call it the French Jewish paradox. Posh kosher restaurants are literally burgeoning in Paris's West End, the fashionable 8th, 16th and 17th districts. Yet the main topics of discussion among patrons are the rise of anti-Semites and whether Jews should leave the country or not.
DANIEL KUMERMANN: Czech mate
A lot was said and written after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon compared the current Israeli situation to that of Czechoslovakia in the year 1938, before it was sold out to the Nazis by the Munich Pact. Some harsh words also came from President George W. Bush.
CAROLINE B. GLICK: Europe's Arab gambit
The poll conducted recently by the EU which found that Europeans consider Israel to be the single greatest threat to world peace shocked many and caused the EU's political leadership to cringe with embarrassment. And yet, according to Geneva-based historian Bat Yeor, the results are the culmination of a European policy now three decades old.
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