In today’s American Spectator online, I have a piece about the Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, whose sons were murdered in February 2005 following his visit to Israel to attend a counterterrorism conference there. Over the weekend, I received an alarming e-mail from al-Alusi’s friend Esther Kandel, who alerted me …
Fellow New Yorkers: remember how the rest of the country rallied to our aid after 9/11? With Hurricane Ike bearing down on the people of Texas, the people of New York City have a special opportunity to help their fellow Americans - and hear some great music. This Thursday September …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
A survivor of domestic violence and rape, Katarina Tepesh has spent much of her adulthood trying to forget.
But after Sept. 11, the 58-year-old Croatian, who immigrated to New York at 17, started trying to remember.
An upper …
If you’re watching this year’s 2008 Olympic Games (NBC will broadcast from Beijing starting Friday August 8 at 7:30), be sure to look out for former Sudanese refugee and “lost boy” Lopez Lamong. A Southern Sudanese Christian who as a boy ran for his life from genocidal war that pitted the Arab Islamist government …
Just finished reading Khaled Hosseini’s “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” a novel about the lives of two women, set in modern Afghanistan. It’s a valuable book for many reasons, not least of which is the light it sheds on women’s lives under the Taliban, who rose to power in 1996.
Certain aspects of the Taliban’s phenomenal …
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that habeas corpus applies to detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While the ruling does not mean federal courts will necessarily release any of the detainees any time soon, it means these prisoners will have the right to petition civilian courts in the U.S. for …
Check out this terrific story about an Iraqi sheikh who helped U.S. forces expel al Qaeda from Anbar province. Apparently he is now providing the U.S. with information about Afghan tribes, presumably including those along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
This courageous sheikh, Ahmad al-Rishawi, says of President Bush, “He is a brave man. He is a …
A must read for all members of the pro-America, pro-Israel, pro-human rights, anti-terror community, this excellent article in this week’s Jerusalem Post magazine highlights the Israeli government’s disordered priorities in possibly rejecting some of Israel’s natural allies: the Christians of Southern Sudan.
The world knows about the people of Darfur as the Muslim victims of …
Having recently returned from the middle east, where I went to Ramallah and met Palestinians on their turf, I’ve been thinking about the risk I took, and also about the strange dichotomy that exists in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
In a recent interview, Yoel Benesh, an Israeli businessman whose company, Meditalia, manufactures sauces and spreads with …
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Overlooked in the controversy over whether China’s women gymnasts - including He Kexin, winner of this week’s tiebreaker for the gold medal in uneven parallel bars - are of age (16, as required by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the …