Just after Biden left the Middle East, Mahmoud Abbas flew to Paris to try to persuade President Macron to support Israeli-Palestinian negotiations toward a “two-state solution.” Abbas had been deeply disappointed in Biden’s insistence that the time was not yet ripe for such negotiations; furthermore, he was angered at Biden’s refusal to publicly commit, during […]
Jean-Luc Mélenchon: A Very Dangerous Man
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a far-left French politician who, as head of the party La France Insoumise, leads a coalition consisting of Communists, the hard left, the Greens, and Muslim voters, too. The last group, curiously, has received no mention in the coverage of the various French elections. Mélenchon has just come in second in the […]