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

Peggy Noonan – and I – weigh in on Lugar race

May 4, 2012

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Hey, does the great Peggy Noonan read www.heatherrobinson.net by chance?

Last week, I weighed in on Indiana’s heated Republican  primary race between veteran Senator Richard Lugar and the state’s Republican Treasurer Richard...

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Exclusive: Former Iraqi Parliamentarian Says Nouri al-Maliki is a Tool of Iran

May 3, 2012

From The Algemeiner

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who met recently with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is being used as a “tool of Iran,” and Iran is using Iraq as a way station for transporting fighters and weapons to Syria to support the...

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Tea party opportunist Mourdock takes on pro-Israel Lugar in Indiana but turns out to be a Mr. Softee

April 26, 2012

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Six-term incumbent Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar (pictured above) is facing off in a close race against upstart challenger Richard Mourdock, the state treasurer, who is, according to one news site “running to...

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Obama administration waives protocol to admit child porn-implicated Muslim Brotherhood member into U.S.

April 19, 2012

Funny how the mainstream media ignored this item. Why do I suspect that, had it been the Bush and not the Obama administration waiving protocol to admit into the U.S. an individual who has been implicated in a child pornography...

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Provides Lessons For Our Time

April 18, 2012

From The Algemeiner

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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This Thursday April 19 marks the 69th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a 27-day battle in which a small group of Jews, mostly teenagers, held off one of the mightiest, most equipped, and certainly the most evil...

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated April 19

April 17, 2012

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This Thursday April 19 marks the 69th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a 27-day battle in which a small group of Jews, mostly teenagers, held off one of the mightiest, most equipped, and certainly the most evil military power the world...

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan says ‘Happy Passover!’ and strikes against prejudice

April 11, 2012

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New York’s newly appointed Cardinal, Timothy Dolan, has emerged as downright impressive this week.

First he gave an Easter sermon in which he paid homage to Jews and Passover. Oh, yes he did. This from the New York Post:

In his Easter...

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Children’s rights champion and free speech attorney disinvited to speak by fellow Jews in UK

March 18, 2012

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Just received word from attorney and activist Brooke Goldstein (pictured above) that she was banned from speaking by a Jewish society at Leeds University in England.

Goldstein is director of the Lawfare Project, a New York-based...

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Exclusive: Southern Sudanese Forced to Leave Israel by Month’s End, Activist Says

March 17, 2012

From The Algemeiner

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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Israel’s Ministry of the Interior has notified the employers of Southern Sudanese refugees who reside in Israel that they can no longer be employed by month’s end, according to a leading advocate for the rights of South...

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Southern Sudanese to be deported from Israel by month’s end; activists seek reprieve for Christian Zionist community

March 14, 2012

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Israel’s Ministry of the Interior has notified the employers of South Sudanese refugees who reside in Israel that they must no longer be employed by month’s end, according to a leading advocate for the rights of South...

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