Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

Listen to AFI Director Simon McIlwaine interviewed by Tovia Singer on Israel National Radio, 25 Jan 2006. (24 mins.)


September, 2005

Christian and Zionist but not a Christian Zionist

Monday, September 26th, 2005

by Ted Belman, Israpundit, with comments from Dexter Van Zile of our sister organisation The Judeo-Christian Alliance.
Dexter Van Zile is the Director of Christian Outreach for the David Project Center for Jewish Leadership & Advocacy. He is also a member of the United Church of Christ.
He recently published an article Walling off the Jews from […]

Open Letter: Why the boycott hurts Palestinians

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

by Mark Gluck, September 25, 2005
Mark Gluck is Professor of Neuroscience, Rutgers University-Newark, co-director of the Rutgers Memory Disorders Project, and director of Rutgers-Israel Biomedical Research and Education Exchange.                              Center for Molecular and Behaviorial Neuroscience                     An open letter […]

Those Palestinian casualty figures

Friday, September 16th, 2005

Approximately 3,000 Palestinians and 1000 Israelis have been killed over the past 5 years.
But when you compare how many of them were civilians and how many were armed or soldiers you find that 70% of all Israeli casualties were civilians and approx 70% of Palestinian casualties were combatants
Those 3,000 include suicide bombers, the hundreds of […]

Was film that fuelled the intifada faked?

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

From David Gelernter, Los Angeles Times:
A 55-SECOND video report, produced in 2000 by a French TV station and distributed free of charge around the world, has caused untold injury and grief to Israeli civilians. This month, the French author Nidra Poller analyzes the evidence in Commentary magazine and shows that the video is a fraud […]

Gaza goes beserk

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

DEBKAfile reports that the Egyptians and Palestinians are making mockery of their accords with Israel following the pull-out from Gaza.  There was a "total loss of control" by the Palestinian Authority and Egyptian border police, as "tens of thousands of Palestinians indulged in a wild orgy of destruction, burning, looting and hurling themselves back and […]

Synagogue Desecrations

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

by HonestReporting.com
Mere hours after Israel completed its historic withdrawal from Gaza on Sunday (Sept. 11), Palestinian mobs descended on former Jewish settlements, desecrating their synagogues by burning them to the ground and looting anything left.
While observers the world over were saddened and outraged, some media outlets tried to justify the sacrilege, or even blame it […]