From The Jerusalem Post Magazine
By HEATHER ROBINSON
It is fitting Daniel Lubetzky would grow up to be an entrepreneur who tries to bring peace to the Middle East. He recalls how, one summer when he was 12 and working for a textile wholesaler in Mexico City, he …
This interview from 1958 of the great Abba Eban, at that time Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. and its chief delegate to the U.N., provides eye-opening perspective on Israel’s enemies and detractors, as well as its indomitable spirit (thanks to Daniel Pipes whose site, Danielpipes.org, linked to this interview today). Interviewed by Mike …
“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 …
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. …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Officials are meeting this week in Geneva and Brussels to plan the 2009 U.N. Conference Against Racism, a sequel to the infamous 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa, which turned into an anti-Israel frenzy. When it comes to Israel-bashing cloaked in tolerance, …
I’m a Zionist, and I liked Spielberg’s film.
From opinionjournal.com
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
Avner Kaufmann, the reluctant warrior and protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s movie “Munich,” is honorable, strong, a family man–that is, a typical Israeli. That is why “Munich,” although intensely criticized by pro-Israel commentators, ultimately does Israel and the civilized world …
Remember the Circus, and Support Giuliani in Florida and Beyond
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 …