Epstein Secrets

would be unavoidable. First, Israelis would be further confirmed in their belief that the Europeans could not be trusted, diminishing even further the European Union's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Second, such a move could only undermine Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, which view Hamas as an enem

e a constellation of European leaders as sympathetic to the Jewish state as figures like British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Sarkozy, and -- the lone survivor among them today -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The prevalence of

number of tourists. Before the crisis erupted, Syria was negotiating to join the World Trade Organisation and conclude an association agreement with the European Union. But Bashar’s years in power seem to have hardened him. He developed a taste for control -- control over the media, over the university, over the ec

Several allies needed little comfort. “Don’t worry about it,” one leader told Hillary. “You should see what we say about you.” Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wasn’t so forgiving. In 2008 the loutish media baron and billionaire had described Barack Obama as “young, handsome and bronzato (bronzed),” but afte

ce of Italy's corrupt establishment and mentor to Sil- vio Berlusconi, was pelted with coins in 1993 by an angry mob as

id, had tried to they can help populist move- sels's rules when it: ments, the subject of a speech he gration crisis, and i gave in Zurich this week. ropean Union allow In preparation for the speech, organized by Die Weltwoche, a ing Italy to take ti conservative Swiss magazine, Mr. Bannon said he visited the t