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The Netherlands

Turkey’s Demographic Games in Europe
Much has been written in the last decade about Europe’s culture, its religious makeup, and whether the Islamic minority in European Union countries could ever...
French-German Rift Puts Voters and Markets On Edge
The dominoes continue to fall. The deepening of the Eurozone economic crisis claimed the sitting governments of Greece and then of Italy, and the biggest...
Is It 1848 in the Arab World?
The riots that toppled Tunisia's strong man on January 14 spread on Tuesday to Egypt, which is in its third day of rioting. Today riots...
At the UN, NGOs Blame Israel for Plight of Palestinian Women
Today a UN committee looked into whether Israel was complying with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). And,...
Group Defies Dutch Government, Continues to Fund Anti-Israel Website
A government-funded Netherlands organization has rejected requests from the Dutch foreign minister to stop supporting financially the Electronic Intifada. The Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation...
Euro-Freedom Watch
With little fanfare, the EU adopted new legislation this week that makes “certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia” criminal offenses -- and allows...
Anti-Israel Website Indirectly Funded by Dutch Government
The next time you come across an Electronic Intifada article alleging some devious Israeli plot to annex Palestinian olive groves, direct your eye-rolls toward The...
More Lies from the BDS Movement
Since its inception, practically every major success claimed by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has turned out to be either an outright...
The UAE No Fan of the Blackberry — or Intellectual Freedom
The link between political freedom and economic prosperity is by now well-established. It is no coincidence that capitalism and democracy developed at roughly the same time...
Flotsam and Jetsam
Pay attention to how Obama behaves, not what he says. Pay attention to the wailing on the left. "For many liberals, this is the summer of...
Still Spying After All These Years
One thing the emerging Russian spy scandal demonstrates is that America really is one heck of a melting pot. Where else would you find neighbors...
What’s More Important, the Environment or the Environmentalists?
To the Obama administration, it seems that it's the latter. According to Canada's Financial Post (h/t Instapundit), the administration turned down an offer from the Dutch...