Yet another annoying and inconvenient truth from Benjamin Netanyahu

Yet another annoying and inconvenient truth from Benjamin Netanyahu

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done it again: he has repeated what any historian of the Middle East knows, that the so-called Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini, was a buddy of Adolph Hitler’s. Netanyahu has a terrible way of reminding the world of awful […]

Turkey as failed state? Army won’t stand by, and that wouldn’t be such a bad thing

Turkey as failed state? Army won’t stand by, and that wouldn’t be such a bad thing

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey As Turkey degenerates, a military coup is more likely than total failure, and not a bad outcome for Israel. Famed commentator David Goldman, writing under the pseudonym “Spengler” in the “Asia Times”, has published an analysis in which he asks the question whether Turkey is in danger of becoming […]

Flood of undocumented migrants ‘a test of historic proportions’ for Europe

Flood of undocumented migrants ‘a test of historic proportions’ for Europe

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The almost Biblical scenes of mass humanity surging through Europe from the Balkans to the Baltic have created jarring images as we see a mass movement of displaced Syrians and Iraqis flooding into what they see as a Promised Land, the European Union. Thus as […]

FAITH MATTERS: Volkswagen and Germany’s lost virtue

FAITH MATTERS: Volkswagen and Germany’s lost virtue

Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Arrogance is the art to take pride in its own stupidity,” says an astute German aphorism allegedly coined by Goethe. Arrogance comes to mind as the most charitable attribute when considering Volkswagen’s breathtakingly stupid act of hoodwinking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and systematically deceiving eleven million customers who […]

German anger grows at ‘Islamization of Europe’

German anger grows at ‘Islamization of Europe’

Special to WorldTribune.com Thousands of Germans demonstrated on Sept. 21 against what is called the “Islamization of Europe” as reports also said a growing number of women and young girls housed in shelters in Germany are being raped, sexually assaulted and even forced into prostitution by male asylum seekers. Some senior politicians in Germany are […]

Report: Most of Europe migrant wave aren’t from Syria and many are males of fighting age

Report: Most of Europe migrant wave aren’t from Syria and many are males of fighting age

Special to WorldTribune.com Most of the wave of migrants flooding into Europe are not from Syria and most are males of fighting age, according to recent reports. Of the 213,00 arrivals logged by the European Union in April, May and June, only 44,000 were fleeing the war in Syria, the UK’s Daily Mail reported. “This […]

Syrian refugee in Germany boasted of having killed for ISIL

Syrian refugee in Germany boasted of having killed for ISIL

Special to WorldTribune.com A Syrian asylum seeker living in a German camp for refugees has said he fought and killed for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Germany police are investigating the claims of the man currently residing in a camp in the north-east region of Brandenburg. According to the German Weltam Sonntag newspaper, […]

WORLD MATTERS: Flood of Refugees exposes America’s fatal flaw: Impatience and democracy

WORLD MATTERS: Flood of Refugees exposes America’s fatal flaw: Impatience and democracy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto The flood of Middle Eastern refugees into Europe exposes a fatal flaw of the current democratic system in the United States. The defect is the innate inability of the fast-paced American system to bring a long-drawn-out war against an unconventional enemy to a victorious conclusion. As Adelbert Weinstein, the […]

Israeli opposition leader: Europe is lifting sanctions on Iran and imposing them on Israel

Israeli opposition leader: Europe is lifting sanctions on Iran and imposing them on Israel

Special to WorldTribune.com Israeli Knesset member and opposition leader Tzipi Livni warned that Europe is on the brink of legitimizing the Iranian regime and punishing Israel in the process. “Israel must change the situation in Europe, in which they remove sanctions from Iran and put them on Israel,” Livni, leader of the Zionist Union party, […]

Many, including refugees, blame U.S. for Euro-migrant crisis

Many, including refugees, blame U.S. for Euro-migrant crisis

Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. President Barack Obama bears the brunt of the blame for the current migrant crisis in Europe, according to several lawmakers as well as many refugees attempting to make it Europe. Iraqi Rzgar Abdul, currently housed in a Hungarian refugee camp, blamed the U.S. for pulling out of Iraq too soon. “Iraq’s […]