A big thanks to my friend and former Daily News editor Dawn Eden for inviting me to guest blog yesterday at http://www.dawneden.com/blogger.html
Ms. Eden is to the blogosphere what candlelight is to a face: an illumination that enhances what is beautiful, obscures the rest, and uplifts the spirit.
“If Israel is an apartheid state, how come Saudi Arabian women are coming to Hadassah and other hospitals [in Israel] for fertility treatments?” asks Dr. Raanan Gissin, former right hand communications man to Ariel Sharon. The question, of course, is not rhetorical.
Dr. Gissin, a former paratrooper and spokesman for the Israeli government who frequently represented …
Am I the only non-leftist who’s glad to see Hillary take New Hampshire? It’s not that I give her points for crying, but there was something far-fetched about the media’s anointing of Obama after his win in just one state.
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Yesterday Israel’s Ma’ariv carried my opinion piece on the Christian Sudanese refugees in Israel. It was translated into Hebrew, but I have pasted the English version below.
Also, today The New York Sun carries the tragic news from Khartoum of the murder of a young …
Israel’s Sudanese Friends
From Ma’ariv
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Reprinted from Ma’ariv January 1, 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset recently that while he would like to grant asylum to 489 Muslim refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region to protect them from genocide, he is inclined to send back some 2,300 refugees from southern Sudan, who are Christians. …