Epstein Secrets

ieves that should read Tim Butcher's riveting "The Trigger," a soon-to-be-published account of the long road traveled from a remote Bosnian farm to Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, the 19-year-old Bosnian Serb nationalist whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, ignited

speak out in support of any beleaguered people denied the freedom and justice that I believe all of us deserve. After visiting Israel in 2005 and the West Bank the following year, I was deeply moved and concerned by what I saw, and determined to add my voice to those searching for an equitable and lawful s

'It's nothing! 'he replied repeatedly. Those were his last words." This is the way Simon Kuper began his Financial Times piece on what happened in Sarajevo 100 years ago on June 28, the beginning of World War I. The article is about many things, the city of Sarajevo, the doomed archduke and his morgana

n the Nobel Prize and leave us in quiet," Ya'alon said. ("Quiet," it seems, is how Ya'alon foresees the consequences of permanent Israeli rule over the West Bank.) Ya'alon didn't deny the comments. It took him a day, and a press statement from State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki labeling his words "offens

ct with Elie Wiesel's people over Israel, and many innocent Jews have been murdered by Islamic co-religionists of Muslims who have been terrorized in Sarajevo. Yet, Wiesel makes no distinctions based on religion, race, creed or even enmity against his own people. He will bear witness, even at the risk of hi

omen, and de facto discrimination against Israeli Arabs. Since the early 1970s, I have been a vocal and persistent opponent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And after the war in Lebanon, I protested the use of cluster bombs that, though lawful, unduly endanger the lives of civilians. I have neve