Copyright 2020 Gatestone Institute Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:26:07 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Gatestone Institute :: Articles https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org webmaster@gatestoneinstitute.org (Gatestone Institute) en https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16900/germany-russia-nord-stream-pipeline https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16900/germany-russia-nord-stream-pipeline Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST "We continue to call on Russia to cease using its energy resources for coercive purposes. Russia uses its energy export pipelines to create national and regional dependencies on Russian energy supplies, leveraging these dependencies to expand its https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16882/persecution-of-christians-november-2020 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16882/persecution-of-christians-november-2020 Sun, 27 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST "They tried to force some of our Christians to convert to Islam. They also tried to force my wife and our four children to convert to Islam, but when they refused to convert, they shot my wife in the head while our four children were cut into pieces with https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16884/paris-coronavirus https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16884/paris-coronavirus Sun, 27 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST One remembers lazy afternoons spent discussing the fate of mankind and providing answers to non-existent existential questions, and warm evenings visiting exhibitions of structuralist paintings with no structure, rounding up all that at sunrise with a https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16861/turkey-europe-tensions-sanctions https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16861/turkey-europe-tensions-sanctions Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST Erdoğan also said that he sees Turkey's future in Europe -- the same Europe he just had accused of being "Nazi remnants and fascists." The heart of the matter was how tough the EU would go in sanctions at a time when Turkey's national economy was in https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16866/biden-trump-middle-east https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16866/biden-trump-middle-east Fri, 25 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST It is worth remembering that, when President Trump took office, the region was still reeling from the dire consequences of former US President Barack Obama's inept and naive handling of the region. By early January 2017, when Mr Trump took office, Iran https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16872/jihad-christmas https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16872/jihad-christmas Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST Christmas is an attractive time for jihadists for three unattractive reasons. Many of the examples of failed terrorist plots show that Western security authorities have had considerable success in protecting us all, including the numerous Muslim victims https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16874/mexico-border-drug-trafficking https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16874/mexico-border-drug-trafficking Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST In a border community like El Paso, the Mexican cartels have an insidious, silent and powerful control that few people wish to acknowledge or accept -- that includes a largely compliant news media who usually report what happens, but rarely, if ever, ask https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16869/help-morocco https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16869/help-morocco Tue, 22 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST Morocco's General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) announced last month that the Moroccan authorities have dismantled 207 terrorist cells since 2002. As for Morocco... it is the Islamists, and not Israel, who have "corrupted the minds of https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16873/austria-court-headscarf-ban https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16873/austria-court-headscarf-ban Mon, 21 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST The case highlights the constitutional restraints that European governments face in regulating political Islam and promoting integration. "A regulation that only affects a certain group of female students and that remains selective in order to ensure https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16871/eu-human-rights-china https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16871/eu-human-rights-china Mon, 21 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST One year later, the EU now has a Magnitsky-system. No sanctions, however, have been suggested, whether by member states or by [High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy] Borrell himself. "Sanctions are triggered when a Member https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16867/iran-diplomats-terrorists-europe https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16867/iran-diplomats-terrorists-europe Sun, 20 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST The EU would to itself a big favor to realize that Assadi was likely not acting alone. High-level Iranian leaders and diplomats most probably instructed him to carry out the terrorist operation. It was because of his diplomatic position that Assadi was https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16870/biden-parenthesis https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16870/biden-parenthesis Sun, 20 Dec 2020 04:00:00 EST On relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Biden holds the strong card of sanctions devised under Obama and applied under Trump. Obama offered only carrots and failed. Trump offered only stick and didn't achieve his aim of a photo-op with the top https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16842/china-films-hollywood-censorship https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16842/china-films-hollywood-censorship Sat, 19 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST One Hollywood producer told PEN America that suggestions for projects critical of China aroused the fear that "you or your company will actively be blacklisted, and they will interfere with your current or future project. So not only will you bear the https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16868/hungary-europe-borders https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16868/hungary-europe-borders Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST "Hungary will only be a Hungarian country as long as its borders remain intact. Therefore, not only our thousand-year-old statehood but also the future of our children obliges us to protect our borders." — Judit Varga, Hungarian Justice Minister, https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16859/iran-topple-arab-leaders https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16859/iran-topple-arab-leaders Thu, 17 Dec 2020 05:00:00 EST Hamas's call on Moroccans to revolt against their leaders contradicts its own declared policy that it does not intervene in the internal affairs of the Arab countries. "Hamas does not meddle in the internal affairs of Arab and Muslim countries," said