From The Huffington Post
By HEATHER ROBINSON
This week I have a piece on the web site of the Center for Security Policy detailing former deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams’ views on President Obama’s chances of effectively employing sanctions to squeeze Iran’s leadership as well …
From The Huffington Post
By HEATHER ROBINSON
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the White House today to meet with President Obama, Israel faces a potentially existential threat from Iran, whose leadership has repeatedly stated its intention to destroy the Jewish …
From the Middle East Quarterly
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Spring 2009
Amid growing conservatism and ethnic and sectarian populism in Iraq, parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, a Sunni Arab, has become the country’s chief advocate for liberal values including a free market, free press, religious pluralism, cooperation among democracies in fighting terror, …
It has been less than five years since the founding of the LibforAll Foundation, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization dedicated to supporting moderate Muslims and promoting a nonviolent, pluralistic interpretation of Islam. But already this foundation has been credited with actually stemming the spread of extremist, militant Islam in Indonesia, home to 240 million people - …
Today and every day I am grateful to our service members and veterans for keeping me safe. As a woman, as a journalist and commentator, as a Jew–all categories of individual that the enemies of this country and of civilization reserve special hatred for–I don’t take for granted that good men and women whose lives …
Looks like the U.S. Senate has been reading Jewishworldreview.com.
At any rate, with yesterday’s Senate vote of 90 to 6, U.S. Senators, at least for now, have thrown a wrench into the President’s plan to shut down the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and move detainees–hard core terror …
United in their commitment to defense of free speech against the threat of harassment by radical Islamists, speakers at today’s “Islamist Lawfare” conference, hosted in Washington D.C. by Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, debated what precisely constitutes the radical Islamist threat in the U.S. and how best to combat it.
In Europe and now in the …
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the White House later today to meet with President Obama, Israel faces a potentially existential threat from Iran, whose leadership has repeatedly stated its intention to destroy the Jewish state.
President Obama told Newsweek magazine last week: “I’ve been very clear that I don’t …
The mood at this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference - the yearly gathering that drew thousands of Israel-supporters from Sunday till today to be briefed on issues related to the U.S.-Israel relationship and to lobby their members of Congress - was cautiously optimistic. On the whole, most speakers seemed to voice …
Bobby Jindal and the Soft Bigotry of Good Intentions
From The Huffington Post
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Interesting story today on how Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal supposedly rebuked former Vice President Dick Cheney for asserting the U.S. is less safe due to some of President Obama’s decisions.
Despite the Huffpo’s headline on this alleged controversy, after reading the story it’s not clear …