Epstein Secrets

r with French President, Frangois Mitterrand. Elie and his wife speak fluent French but I do not and neither did the two other couples at the dinner. Mitterrand spoke passable English but he insisted on conducting the entire conversation in French, with a British translator at his side. At one point, Mitterra

s fuelled by images of death and destruction, set to the backdrop of Arabic melodies about Jihad and speeches of Hizbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah or Osama Bin Laden. There was also constant, casual antisemitism around me. My father would boast of how Adolf Hitler was a hero, his only failing being that he didn't

r. Osama bin Laden, its charismatic founder, is dead, and after some internal debate his No. 2 man, Zawahiri, has taken control. For nearly a decade, bin Laden pushed his followers to come up with a second act to 9/11, but they were unable to match the appalling brilliance of that attack. Now it is up to Zaw

y ago, the need for it is greater. Why? Because all the great underlying motivators of the European project back in the days of Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Delors, and even more so in the time of the founding fathers, have faded or disappeared. Those powerful driving forces included searing p

e. In recent statements, Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s second- in-command, and Qaeda surrogates have a

, which entrenched rights and enfeebled responsibility. That he was elected president showed that France, deep in its soul, knew it had to escape the Mitterrand-Chirac rut with its glut of erudition and its glob of inaction. That was heartening. The sanctimonious attacks on him from the left oozed the paraly