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The EU Is Enabling Religious Persecution in Pakistan
Pakistan has for years been seriously repressing its minorities, political dissidents, human right advocates and journalists even transnationally. Nevertheless, Pakistan continues to enjoy the benefits of the European Union’s special incentive arrangement under its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP+). Journalists in Pakistan (and even the family members of exiled journalists) are subject to enforced disappearances. Journalist Asif Karim Khehtran and the brothers of U.S.-based exiled Pakistani journalist Ahmad Noorani were abducted in March 2025 and remain missing.
Diplomacy with a Baseball Bat
The only people who should be surprised that U.S. President Donald Trump was able to broker a peace deal in Gaza are the ones who continue to underestimate this man.The fact is, his language is far more deliberate and far more calculating than what often appears to be “top of the mind” or extemporaneous. So when he told Hamas that if they did not come to the peace table, he would give Israel a free hand to “finish the job,” the remaining leaders of that terrorist organization had to consider that Trump was telling them the game was up.
France: Life Without a Government
Without falling for anarchist fantasies, one might ask what governments, at least in Western democracies, do. The main thing they do is to take your money and spend it on your behalf the way they wish, including social bribes to their segments of the electorate. After two years of no real government, France is no worse than it was before the current “existential crisis” began. Needless to say, the widest choice of restaurants in the world continues to offer delicious food.
The Palestinian Campaign to Undermine Relations between Christians and Israel
In recent months, we have witnessed a well-timed campaign led by the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and anti-Israel Christian elements – some of them declared anti Semitic to undermine the relations between the State of Israel and Christian communities around the world, especially evangelical and pro-Israel Christians whose long-standing support for Israel is not self-evident.
