By considering Hezbollah as a legitimate interlocutor in the process — engaging its representatives in Lebanon — France is perpetuating the problems. Unless Macron addresses the issue of Hezbollah, nothing will change.
Mireille Knoll’s murder haunts me. It is a painful reminder (as if we needed one) of the face of antisemitism in France today, where a helpless and sick 85-year-old Holocaust survivor can be killed in her apartment for one reason only: because she is Jewish.
Leaders across Europe breathed a sigh of relief after incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte's center-right Liberals beat "the wrong kind of populism" in the Dutch parliamentary elections. But a closer reading of the election results tells a somewhat different story.