Blog

My running commentary on events: local, national, and international. Areas of special interest include Israel, Iraq, and dissidents in the Muslim world.

War and Peace, Gaza-Style

June 2, 2010

From The Washington Examiner

by HEATHER ROBINSON

In the wake of Israel’s interception of a flotilla of ships bound for Gaza, international leaders and media are predictably jumping on the bandwagon to condemn the Jewish state.

Israel fell into a trap here. Its enemies, masquerading...

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War and “Peace” — Gaza Style

June 2, 2010

My latest piece, in today’s Washington Examiner, unpacks the Gaza flotilla incident. In it, I quote Ephraim Sneh, Israel’s former deputy defense minister, who when I interviewed him last week in Herzliya told me, “In the...

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Independent Journalist, Under Attack, Gets Mixed Signals from the U.S.

May 17, 2010

Since 2003, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a pioneering Bangladeshi journalist who has exposed the rise of radical Islam in his country and promoted good relations between Bangladesh and Israel, has been harassed by his own...

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Book Showcases Rescued Dogs Who Rescue Others

May 11, 2010

Pretty cute, huh?

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A new book called New Lives: Stories of Rescued Dogs Helping, Healing and Giving Hope tells the stories of abused dogs who were rescued and went on to become “working” dogs–helping the elderly, disabled, and...

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New Book Showcases Rescued Dogs Who Help Others

May 11, 2010

A new book called New Lives: Stories of Rescued Dogs Helping, Healing and Giving Hope that tells the stories of abused dogs who were rescued and went on to become “working” dogs–helping the elderly, disabled, and...

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Frank Gaffney and Heather Robinson Discuss Attempted NYC Car Bomb and Baghdad Recount

May 5, 2010

Yesterday I appeared on Securefreedom radio, the Center for Security Policy’s radio show, discussing the attempted Times Square terror bombing and the Baghdad recount. Frank Gaffney, the show’s host, engaged me in some interesting back and...

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Iraqi Liberal Calls on President Obama to Oversee Baghdad Recount

May 2, 2010

From The Huffington Post

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Iraq’s electoral commission announced today that a recount of votes in Baghdad from the March 7 elections will start next Monday.

But a prominent Iraqi liberal is warning that, absent sufficient oversight from the U.S., the recount...

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Congress’s Ironic Outrage At Goldman Sachs

April 29, 2010

In the words of Thinking Man, my finance expert friend, “It was shiesters slamming shiesters” Tuesday on the Hill as senators from both sides of the aisle alternately interrogated and slammed executives of one of New York’s...

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Democracy Delayed

April 27, 2010

From The American Spectator

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Last week, following its review of documents charging fraud in Iraq’s March 7 elections, an Iraqi court ordered a recount of votes in Baghdad.

Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, who ran on a platform of Iraqi relations with Israel...

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Jonthan Tobin on Today’s NY Times: Obama Has Shifted U.S. Policy Against Israel

April 26, 2010

Jonathan Tobin aptly characterizes, in this piece, the increasingly alarming situation currently facing Israel. He does a good job of outlining the basic reality and President Obama’s fallacious assumptions about it, as well as the...

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