Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


January, 2006

Hamas rising

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

by P. David Hornik, FrontPage Magazine
More than a million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza already live under local Hamas jurisdiction. Once thought to be popular mainly in Gaza, last December 15 Hamas extended a string of electoral successes by winning big in the important West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin, and al-Bireh. Not […]

Don’t Deal with Terrorists

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

by Daniel Pipes
Full links in the original: see http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3309
As Hamas, the Islamist terror group, surges in the polls with a prospect of joining the Palestinian Authority or even running it, governments worldwide must decide on their responses.
An increasing number of voices are calling for Hamas to be recognized, arguing that the imperatives of governance would […]

New missile targets Israel

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

From The Media Line, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater:
The Al-Aq’sa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group affiliated with Fatah, says it has developed a new type of missile with a range of 27 kilometers, or 16 miles.
The group says its military industry unit has developed a new generation of what it calls an ‘Al-Aq’sa 207 […]

UN response ‘inadequate’

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

From the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA):
New York - The ZOA has described as unacceptable the official response of the United Nations to a letter from the US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, posing questions to the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, regarding the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” held last November in […]

Ahmadinejad…Liar, Hypocrite, and/or Arabs’ Stooge?

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

by Gerald A. Honigman
Upon the death of Islam’s Prophet, Muhammad, in the early 7th century C.E., the armies of his caliphal successors burst out of the Arabian Peninsula and spread out in all directions.
Over the next centuries–and continuing to this very day–Arab colonialism and imperial conquests would either directly or indirectly forcibly Arabize millions of […]

Iran and Syria behind Tel Aviv attack

Friday, January 20th, 2006

From Ynetnews.com, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater:
Defense officials have gathered solid evidence in the hours following Thursday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv to show the attack was a direct result of cooperation between Iran, Syria, and Palestinian terrorists.
“The attack was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians,” Defense Minister Shaul […]