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"The suspects are also victims in some sense, but this is still something we have to deal with, that children also commit crimes". — Police Chief Carin Götblad, Expressen, February 5, 2020. Parents are afraid to report the crimes committed by other

Israel's and America's upcoming elections are fateful for both countries and will determine who will conduct the negotiations moving forward. If no clear message is conveyed by Israel -- immediately -- negotiations after the elections could take this

The project of multiculturalism in Europe, including the integration of people from the Middle East and Africa, has fared extremely poorly until now and no amount of denial from the UN or the World Economic Forum, including leveling accusations of "hate

For the Turks, Turkey is the homeland and Cyprus is the "baby homeland." In January 2018, several thousand Turkish Cypriots marched against what they said was Turkey's unwanted influence that has emboldened hard-right groups to try to silence opposing

Meanwhile, there are other Arabs in the region who are more fortunate than the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: the Arab citizens of Israel. These citizens are lucky that they do not live under the rule of the corrupt and incompetent leaders

"Right now people are mad, not just because of their own government... People are furious about the Western reaction, with the silence of the world. When they see that people are getting killed, but still the Western governments do not dare to openly

Gatestone Institute to examine the impact of legalized marijuana in 2020. Details to follow...

Minority groups claim "safe spaces", but the ones who really need safe spaces are those who disgree with the reigning orthodoxy. An appeal by some French intellectuals, including many Muslim thinkers such as Boualem Sansal and Zineb el Rhazoui,

The difficulty was that the leadership of the revolution had no intention of creating a Western-style society in which economically and socially Westernized Iranian middle classes would feel at home. One way to deceive them was to continue with a

Just as in the 1930s, National Socialist anti-Semitism and far-right anti-Semitism -- and their consequences for the Jews -- were of no interest to anyone, the anti-Semitism growing today seems of no interest to anyone. None of the countries represented

"The problem is when, in the name of a religion, some people want to separate themselves from the Republic and therefore not respect its laws." — French President Emmanuel Macron, February 18, 2020. "Turkey today can make the choice to follow that path

Palestinians, in short, are saying that they refuse to accept funding by any party that does not accept their conditions and demands. It is as if someone applies for a loan from a bank but demands that the bank accept his or her demands, and not the

Of the country's 9.6 million registered voters (among a total population of 37 million), a total of just 1.82 million votes were counted. Of these, Mr Ghani achieved his victory by winning a paltry 923,592 votes, which can hardly be described as a

"We want our islands back... We want our lives back!!!" — Posters across Greece's northeast Aegean islands. The owner of the beautiful tavern... "recollects how the 'refugee business' works... the distance between the Turkish mainland and Lesbos is

As legalized marijuana becomes epidemic across the country, Gatestone Institute will be posing serious questions throughout the coming year regarding its potential impact on road and occupational safety; its effect on children and our country's overall