Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


June, 2006

Business as usual at the UN

Friday, June 30th, 2006

UN Watch reports that in its inaugural session the UN Human Rights Council demonstrates that it is hardly an improvement over its predecessor:
Despite some encouraging indicators, the Council failed to adopt a single statement for the victims of gross atrocities in Darfur and for millions of other victims around the world.
We gave high marks […]

Time to teach Syria a lesson

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Jed Babbin at RealClearPolitics.com argues that many of the problems of terrorism in the Middle East stem from Syria and it is time for Israel to strike back:
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal - operating from his headquarters in Damascus — ordered the raid in which Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. Meshaal, and pretty much every other terrorist […]

Hatefest

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Bruce Kent is best known in Britain as the long-serving Vice-President of CND and the leading figure in the anti-nuclear movement during the 1980s when the British Labour Party adopted a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament, fortunately later overturned. His advocacy of unilateral disarmament in the midst of the Cold War might lead us […]

Christian Aid reaches new depths

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

For months the Palestinians have been firing rockets daily from Gaza into Israel. Today a spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel. Whatever the truth of this claim, the situation is […]

Prisoners’ document ’stepping away from peace’

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
The Palestinian “Prisoners’ Document”: Stepping away from peace - A Text Analysis
The objective behind this document had nothing to do with advancing prospects for peace with Israel. The goal was to promote a Palestinian consensus.
1. The announcement by representatives of Hamas and Fatah that agreement had been […]

Kidnapping and blackmail

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

A report in Haaretz confirms that the Palestinian administration is little more than a criminal terrorist outfit:
The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Wednesday called for a prisoner swap with Israel, saying Israel’s invasion of Gaza would not secure the release of a captured soldier.
It was the first time the government has proposed exchanging the soldier for […]