Tag: Mediterranean Countries
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‘Madame de Pompadour’: François Boucher’s Portrait of Power
[ad_1] Madame de Pompadour was a power to be reckoned with during the reign of her lover, the French king Louis XV. Born Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, she rose through the proverbial ranks at the court of Versailles starting in 1745, when the king first ennobled her, and she stayed indispensable to Louis long after the…
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Opinion | Give Yahya Sinwar the Eichmann Treatment
[ad_1] Two top Palestinian commanders—Hezbollah’s Wissam Hassan Al-Tawil and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri—were both killed over the past two weeks in suspected Israeli airstrikes. Hamas’s figurehead and the suspected mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, Yahya Sinwar, is still at large, but it’s fair to assume he is high on Israel’s list of targets. After the…
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Opinion | Iran, the Fulcrum of Mideast Violence
[ad_1] Disparate acts of war and terrorism all lead back to Tehran. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | IDF Faces a Harsh Reality in Southern Gaza
[ad_1] Khan Younis, Gaza What is happening in southern Gaza—and as important, what isn’t happening—threatens to leave the Middle East violently unstable for years. The battle for Khan Younis is forcing Israel to face a harsh reality: Hamas likely won’t be totally annihilated. And Israel’s two goals, killing Hamas’s leaders and rescuing all the hostages,…
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Opinion | Worldwide, 2024 Elections Promise a Whirlwind
[ad_1] Dec. 28, 2023 12:49 pm ET It’s (almost) election year, baby! Every year is important in its way, and most elections matter to someone. Even so, 2024 promises to be unusually electorally exciting due to the sheer amount of voting across the democratic world—and over what issues. What seems likely to be an awful…