Shoula Romano Horing
Shoula Romano Horing (born July 22, 1959) is an attorney, opinion columnist, radio talk show host, law professor, and national public speaker. Born and raised in Israel, she has lived in the United States since 1980 and in Kansas City since 1982. She frequently writes columns for Ynetnews, the most popular online Israeli newspaper and other Jewish newspapers. She writes exclusively AbOUT Israel and the threats to its security and survival.
Biography
Horing was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 22, 1959. She is the daughter of Abraham and Zipora Romano. Shoula's father, Abraham Romano, was born in Damascus, Syria, and grew up in Beirut, Lebanon in the Jewish quarter under the French Mandate. He later immigrated to British Mandate Palestine, where he joined the British police and helped protect the Jewish population. In 1944–1945, he fought the Nazis in Italy as a member of the Jewish Brigade of the British Army as an explosives expert.
In 1946–1948, he was a member of the Irgun, the Jewish underground organization under the command of Menachem Begin, which helped force the British out of Palestine. During the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, he was one of the first fighters to conquer Jaffa, a suburb of Tel Aviv. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, he joined the Israel Defense Forces.
Shoula's mother Zipora Ben Yefe, was from a Yemenite Jewish family that left Ta'izz, Yemen, in 1920 due to a famine and fled to Ethiopia. Zipora was born in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, in 1927. The family left Ethiopia in 1936, when Italy conquered Ethiopia and moved to British controlled Mandate Palestine.
Early life
As a child, Shoula's parent took her to political rallies for then "Herut" leader, Menachem Begin. She lived through the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the [...] attacks by the PLO and its chairman Yasser Arafat. When she was 20, she was elected to be a delegate to a Likud (Conservative) party convention. She delivered a passionate speech, imploring Begin, then Prime Minister, not to give away West Bank territory won by Israel in the Six Day War, or to recognize for the first time the local Arabs in the West Bank as Palestinians. She also spoke about the dangers of the Camp David Accords, the peace treaty Menachem Begin signed with Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
A year later, she was still giving speeches and rededicating many new Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, when party members asked if she would consider going into politics full-time. Her mother who encouraged her to speak out suggested she take a break before making a decision. After she received her BA in Political Science from Tel Aviv University in 1981, where she was a representative of the university student's union and the national student union, Shoula traveled to the United States to visit her sister, then living in Wilmington, Delaware. She planned to stay only three months but within weeks she met Michael Horing, a New Yorker who was graduating from law school. They were engaged in three weeks and married eight months later.
Early Life In The United States
Horing never returned to Israel to live but she has annually visited Israel to see her parents and her 5 siblings and participated in many political campaigns of the Likud party in Israel. After moving to Kansas City, Horing earned both a Master's in Business Administration and Law Degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with honors. Along the way she flew back to Israel to give birth to her daughter and son, Aurell and Ariel, now ages 26 and 24.
In 1993, after witnessing the signing ceremony of the Oslo Agreement at the White House on September 13, between Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, Shoula became a relentless outspoken critic of the Oslo Agreement, the PLO, and its leader Yasser Arafat, whom she called the "most notorious [...] in recent times".
Political Activism
She began to write her views in the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle to express her dissatisfaction with the peace process between Israel and the PLO, and did so as well on local American Cable vision talk shows, and public speaking engagements. On November 4th,1995 she was in Tel Aviv when Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. Horing had arrived in Israel two days before to attend to her mother, who had suffered a stroke. The peace rally that Rabin was attending when he was shot was next to Ichilov Hospital, where Horing's mother, Zipora, was a patient. It was in Ichilov that Rabin died.
For ten years from 1997–2007, Shoula was the host of a weekly radio show called Oh Jerusalem which aired on KCXL in Kansas City, Missouri. Shoula donated her time to the program, which featured taped interviews with politicians and other leaders in the United States and Israel. On her show, she discussed issues concerning Israel and the Middle East. She has interviewed many distinguished guests including Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, Yitzhak Shamir, Ehud Olmert, as well as Mohammed Bassiouni, former Egyptian Ambassador to Israel, and Walter Rodgers, ex-CNN Bureau Chief Correspondent in Jerusalem.
For the last 19 years, Shoula has written many articles concerning Israel and the Middle East which have been published in the Kansas City Star, The Jewish Press, The National Liberty Journal, Christians for Israel Journal, CAMERA, and other Jewish Journals.
Since September 18, 2001, one week after 9/11, Shoula has been a national speaker for the United Jewish Communities and has spoken in over 100 Jewish communities in the US and Canada, educating and raising funds and donation for local Jewish federations and the Israeli Emergency Fund Campaign. She has been a key note speaker at many rallies for Israel outlining the concessions offered by Israel to the Palestinians and their rejection by Arafat.
Since 2005, she has been a national speaker for JNF educating about Israel and the "Negev Blueprint" to flourish the desert. In addition, she has been raising funds to send to JNF's summer camps for Israeli children from northern Israel and Sderot who live under the threat of rockets fired by Hamas and Hezbollah.
Israeli Election
In 2009, Shoula traveled to Israel to campaign and vote for the election of the Likud candidate for Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. In 2010, she started writing her opinions on the Ynetnews website warning against the anti-Israeli positions held by President Obama.
Past and Future Warnings
Shoula has been a relentless and outspoken critic of the hurried Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and Gaza. She has been warning through her articles and speeches about the dangerous buildup of the Hezbollah and Hamas [...] infrastructure and their missile arsenals in southern Lebanon and Gaza. She has also been warning the public about the Arab Spring and the rise of the new radical crescent of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist in Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
Shoula has been warning of the urgent need to prevent Iran from developing weapons of mass destruction and the policy of containment of its nuclear program.
Objective
Shoula believes that the strategic objective of Israel should be to ensure its long term survival by strengthening its military power, and rejecting delusional peace agreements, which include compromising its strategic territorial assets. Shoula believes that peace is not possible between Israel and the Arab Palestinians until a new generation of Palestinians will rise who are not "brain washed" with hatred to Jews and the State of Israel and the glorification of death and "martyrdom".
At Present
Shoula has been teaching Business Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts Law, International Law, and Employment Law to MBA and undergraduate students at Baker University and Webster University.