Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


March, 2006

The Israeli election

Friday, March 31st, 2006

In the course of recommending one article about the Israeli election, Melanie Phillips produces a superb analysis of her own:
A less politically apathetic people cannot be imagined: fixated upon every political development, glued to the news bulletins every hour, because for them politics is literally the difference between life and death. A more insanely optimistic […]

Anti-divestment campaign among US Presbyterians

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

A unique new Presbyterian affinity group - the Committee to End Divestment Now - has coalesced in early 2006 around the belief that a mistake made in 2004 by the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) needs to be corrected. That mistake involves resolutions about the Middle East, according to the committee website: […]

The Anti-Semitism of the Presbyterian Church, USA

Friday, March 24th, 2006

by Diana Appelbaum, The American Thinker
With the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA scheduled to convene in June for the first time since the 2004 GA passed a notorious anti-Israel divestment resolution, supporters and detractors of divestment are discussing whether the Church’s decision was anti-Semitic, or – somehow - anti-Israel without being […]

Gunmen destroy Christian TV studio in Bethlehem

Friday, March 24th, 2006

by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post
Unidentified gunmen on Thursday went on a rampage inside the studios of the private Shepherds’ TV in Bethlehem, destroying most of the equipment and furniture. No one was hurt in the attack.
Workers at the station said the attack, which was carried out by several gunmen, took place late at […]

Hamas Duplicity: Talk Peace in English and deny it Arabic

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch
In its attempt to gain international legitimacy, Hamas is presenting a conciliatory face to the Western media, while rejecting peace to its own people in Arabic, and even denying that the conciliatory statements were made.
In the latest example, Hamas Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haniyah told CBS on March […]

The Palestinian-Israeli War: Where It Came From, and How to End It

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

by Daniel Pipes, The Commonwealth
The following is an edited transcript of a speech given by Daniel Pipes at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, November 16, 2005, followed by an extensive question-and-answer period. The transcript was edited by The Commonwealth Club.
A Palestinian-Israeli war probably is not the way most of you think of it. In […]