Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently extended his wide-ranging record of duplicity by throwing Israel to the wolves, accusing it and not Hamas of killing civilians and endangering children. It’s the latest betrayal of Israel by the political establishment of a country that was founded with a mandate to help safeguard the Jewish state, notes Sabine Beppler-Spahl in The European Conservative.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


