Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle and David Ben- Gurion accused Great Britain of having a conspiratorial policy in the Middle East. De Gaulle, who headed France’s…

In the sweet summer of 1963, I stood picking grapes in the kibbutz vineyard while a long black car belonging to the diplomatic corps climbed with…

A political treatise written by a 93-year-old author lambasting the ills of Western society, the French government and Israel has become a runaway…

PARIS — Masked youths clashed with police officers and set fires in cities across France on Tuesday as protests against a proposed hike in the…

On Friday October 3, 1980, the eve of Succot, a motorbike bomb exploded outside the Copernic Synagogue in Paris. Had it detonated half an hour later,…

EVER SINCE EHUD OLMERT came under a cloud after the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Israel has been in the throes of a profound leadership crisis. “Our…

The Lutetia Hotel in Paris, once occupied by Nazi officers and later by survivors of concentration camps, was recently purchased by Alrov, the…

This article was published in The Jerusalem Report on May 2, 2010. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report, click here. Gilbert Achcar left Lebanon in…

Britain woke up to a new political era Wednesday with its first coalition government since World War II, an unlikely marriage between the reborn…

Thousands of Jews could have been saved if the British Mandate authorities had not been so ferociously aggressive in enforcing the White Paper,…

The prevailing language at Beit Hanassi on Tuesday afternoon was Russian, the mother tongue of nearly all the close to 300 people assembled in the…

Lonely, vulnerable, affection-craving Israel always yearned for friends. It always also liked to kid itself that it has friends. Hence, at a ceremony…

Over the past decade the status of the 500,000-600,000 French Jews, who constitute the third largest Diaspora community, has continued to…

To a middle-aged American writer raised on movies, television andBroadway theater, artist Georges Weil comes across as endearinglyEnglish and almost…

Hard to believe, but the fourth anniversary of Ariel Sharon’s political departure has passed unnoticed. The fingerprints of the man who seized the…

Hard to believe, but the fourth anniversary of Ariel Sharon’s political departure has passed unnoticed. The fingerprints of the man who seized the…

CadaverlandBy Michael Dorland | Brandeis University Press | 300 pages | $45When recently interviewed about his well-researched scholarly book which…

Forty years ago this Christmas eve, five small boats showing almost no lights slipped out of Cherbourg harbor into the teeth of a Force 9 gale which…

The morals of the storySir, - I think that the world should begin to appreciate the moral teachings of Judaism. The torching of the Yasuf mosque by…

It is increasingly looking like Binyamin Netanyahu will have to become Charles de Gaulle for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is currently…