Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


December, 2005

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Monday, December 19th, 2005

by Jeanine Hirschhorn
As another Christmas season approaches, the eyes of Christians worldwide turn to the birthplace of Jesus. What they may not see is that for Christians living in the Holyland, there is little to celebrate. Daily life is precarious; the future rather bleak.
Ahmad El Achwal was returning to his home in Askar Refugee […]

Aspiring genocidist with weapons of the apocalypse

Friday, December 16th, 2005

The inestimable Charles Krauthammer comments on the growing Iranian threat in the Washington Post:
Last month Ahmadinejad said publicly that the main mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam.
And as in some versions of fundamentalist Christianity, the second coming will be accompanied by the usual […]

A Christmas without Christians

Friday, December 16th, 2005

by Abraham H. Miller, FrontPageMagazine
Since the Palestinian Authority’s takeover of Bethlehem in 1995, under the Oslo Accords with Israel, Bethlehem has been transformed from a Christian city into a Muslim city. Bethlehem’s remaining Christians now live in a condition of dhimmitude (a reference to the second-class citizenship Islam imposes on Christians) in the city of […]

Al Qaeda heads to Israel?

Friday, December 16th, 2005

From FrontPageMagazine:
For the first time, Israeli defense experts are noting that groups identifying with al-Qaeda - or the global jihad - are determined to acquire operational footholds close to Israel’s borders. The most dramatic sign of this development was the November 9, 2005, suicide bombing of three Jordanian hotels in Amman by “al-Qaeda Mesopotamia” […]

The growing Iranian threat

Friday, December 16th, 2005

While the “EU Three” may believe otherwise, Iranian intentions are highly suspect and we should not be relying on good faith and diplomacy. Our thanks are due to AFI reader Anita who draws our attention to this important article in the Washington Times by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul E. Vallely:
One wonders what will it […]

The days of denial must end

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Newspaper columnists and writers who identify themselves as conservatives are routinely attacked by the left, but generally the left reserves its vilest hatred and bile for those on its own side who depart from the prescribed line. So we must applaud those on the left, or writing in the liberal-left media, who bravely […]