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.

The Tirades of Turkey’s Tyrant
What might Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan be driving at during his private “interminable monologues” with Pope Leo XIV, wonders Fiamma Nirenstein in Jewish News Syndicate. The Pope, no doubt, wants to avert a Third World War and sees Turkey as a bridge between West and East. But having embraced Islamism and purged Turkey of nearly all its 4 million Christians, Nirenstein writes, the Turkish tyrant appears ever-less amenable to that role.


