Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


August, 2006

The Mufti and the Nazis

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

This is a very graphic demonstration of the wartime connection between the Palestinian Mufti Haj Amin El Husseini and the Nazis. Note: This video at YouTube is in German but there are English subtitles after the introduction.

Gaarder’s ‘Palestinianism’

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Some remarks on Jostein Gaarder’s Julemysteriet / The Christmas Mystery
by Sylvia Haworth
I gather a furore has erupted in Norway concerning author Jostein Gaarder’s fairly hostile remarks about the state of Israel.
I cannot say I am surprised.
You see, I have read Gaarder’s highly-acclaimed children’s book, Julemysteriet/ ‘The Christmas Mystery’ (1992; English translation 1996; abridged English […]

The enemy mindset

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

The Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey raises the issue of Samir Kuntar, the main figure - indeed, the “dean” of Lebanese prisoners - that Hezbollah is so keen to get back. Sandmonkey points out exactly why Kuntar was jailed:
In the coastal town of Nahariya, the terrorists shot dead a policeman and forced their way into an […]

No way back?

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Jostein Gaarder, the author of Sophie’s World, recently wrote an op-ed piece (translated here) in Aftenposten, one of Norway’s leading newspapers. Here is a flavor of the article:
No way back. It is time to learn a new refrain: We no longer recognize the State of Israel… We are at the watershed. There is no […]

A ‘political party’ unveiled

Friday, August 11th, 2006

by Rachel Ehrenfeld, The Washington Times
“Remember, Hezbollah is a political party within Lebanon… The problem is… that they’re a political party with a militia that is armed by foreign nations,” said President Bush earlier this week. “Political Party”? “Armed Militia”?
Hezbollah, which was established in 1982 as a terrorist organization, was finally designated in 1995 […]

Hezbollah’s Final Solution

Friday, August 11th, 2006

by Alan M. Dershowitz, FrontPageMagazine
The uniqueness of the Holocaust was not the Nazi’s determination to kill the Jews of Germany and even of neighboring Poland. Other genocides, such as those by the Cambodians and the Turks, sought to rid particular areas of so called undesirables by killing them. The utter uniqueness of the Holocaust was […]