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I Spent Yesterday Afternoon in Ramallah - and Lived to Tell!

May 21, 2008 – 11:31 am

Seriously, I’m no Brooke Goldstein (no interviews of terrorists!) But yesterday I did travel to Ramallah with Daniel Lubetzky, founder of Peaceworks, a business that brings together individuals from opposing sides of world conflicts, and OneVoice, a movement Lubetzky founded that seeks to promote communication and political change. I’ve written about Mr. Lubetzky for The …

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Hamas Leader Admits Using Women and Children as Human Shields

April 3, 2008 – 1:05 am

Check out this video of a Hamas leader last month openly admitting they use women and children as human shields.

It illustrates what Israel has been dealing with for decades. If only the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, had been this honest and transparent.

Yesterday, writing about Hamas TV’s latest …

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Muslim Freedom Fighter Arrested

March 20, 2008 – 2:23 am

On Tuesday, members of Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion, a paramilitary wing of the government, stormed the offices of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, arrested and interrogated him. In 2003, Mr. Choudhury, editor of the newspaper The Weekly Blitz, was arrested and tortured for seventeen months. His “crimes” included trying to visit Israel, investigating the …

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Remember the Circus, and Support Giuliani in Florida and Beyond

January 26, 2008 – 1:13 pm

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From The Jewish World Review
BY HEATHER ROBINSON

Ah, 1995, when terrorists were statesmen and Rudy Giuliani, in the words of Ed Koch, had “behavioral problems dealing with other people.”

I refer to that glorious time following Yasser Arafat’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, when His Excellency Arafat arrived unannounced at …

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His Right Hand Man on Ariel Sharon: Humanitarianism Was Strong in Him

January 10, 2008 – 4:01 am

“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 …

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Israel’s Christian Sudanese Friends

January 2, 2008 – 2:11 pm

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 …

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Israel’s Sudanese Friends

January 1, 2008 – 10:52 am

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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. …

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Ms. Bhutto’s Guts

December 28, 2007 – 4:53 pm

Whatever else was or was not true about Benazir Bhutto, she was a human being who refused to be intimidated by terrorists – and for that she merits admiration. In a piece she wrote in October for The Wall Street Journal after an attempt on her life, she crystallizes the dilemma that all nonviolent …

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If We Make It a Priority, Cancer Will Be Cured Before Long

December 19, 2007 – 4:56 pm

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From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
December 19, 2007“

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When I first came to Sloane-Kettering, a small glass cabinet held all the cancer drugs that were known,” recalls Dr. Yashar Hirshaut. “So I’ve seen the transition from a very primitive time till now, where …

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Zohan to Feature Moishe’s Movers: How About the Princess in the IDF?

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Looks like something truly creative is coming down the pike: in this soon-to-be released film, Adam Sandler plays an Israeli counterterrorism agent who comes to New York to do hair. Finally, someone mines the great comic potential of the Israeli-in-America experience.

I’m not sure if we can expect fair depiction of Israelis in this tale …

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