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

AFP: Bin Laden ordered rocket attack on Israel

Monday, January 9th, 2006

An AFP report makes the links that much of the media have ignored: the attacks on Israel are part of a broader jihad.
Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said in an audio tape put onto the Internet that rockets had been fired at Israel from Lebanon last month “on the instructions” of the network’s […]

The BBC’s fabled even-handedness

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Melanie Phillips appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Programme (Radio 4) yesterday along with Tony Lerman, the incoming Executive Director of the think-tank Jewish Policy Research, to discuss anti-Semitism and the wave of attacks on Jews (see the subsequent posting by Melanie Phillips here).
Our Interfaith Advisor and Academic Liaison Office, Dr Irene Lancaster, was shocked at […]

Not Green Enough?

Monday, January 9th, 2006

by Roz Rothstein, National Director, StandWithUs
Israel is widely seen as a world leader in innovative pro-environment policies and in sharing its expertise with developing nations.
But Israel isn’t green enough for the Green Party of the US.
On Nov 21, the group betrayed its own mission to support environment-friendly nations and joined the anti-Israel campaign. It […]

No words

Friday, January 6th, 2006

As Ariel Sharon fights for his life in a hospital bed, take a look at how Palestinians respond to the news.

Truce? What truce?

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

From the Jerusalem Post:
As Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees and Fatah’s Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades announced an end to their self-declared truce of January 2005, under which they pledged to refrain from attacking Israeli targets, an annual summary of terror activities for 2005 released by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Sunday revealed that […]

Palestinians threaten rocket barrage ‘celebration’

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

From WorldNet Daily:
Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip are watching the news regarding Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s deteriorating health carefully and will celebrate with Qassam rocket firings at Jewish towns if Sharon dies, terror leaders told WorldNetDaily.
One militant leader threatened the life of Sharon’s temporary replacement, Deputy Minister Ehud Olmert, who was installed […]