Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


September, 2006

The new anti-Semitism

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the ‘new anti-Semitism’:
We’re accustomed to associating hatred of Jews with the ridiculed Neanderthal Right of those in sheets and jackboots. But this new venom, at least in its Western form, is mostly a leftwing, and often an academic, enterprise. It’s also far more insidious, given the left’s moral pretensions and its […]

Developing Palestinian export markets

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

From David Frankfurter:
Europe has long invested in the, trying to improve the situation of the average Palestinian. European aid is aimed at improving civil institutions to provide proper governance and to develop economic opportunity; in short, an environment where the people will demand a path to prosperity and peace with its neighbours.
Unfortunately, […]

Enemies of Israel “are also a threat to Europe”

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

European Coalition for Israel conference in Brussels concludes: “Enemies of Israel are also a threat to Europe”
Brussels 25 September 2006 – The threat of the destruction of the state of Israel should not only be considered an issue of Jewish concern.
The same forces which are trying to wipe Israel off the map would also want […]

Rally for Israel at UN

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

From Power Line comes news of an encouraging but under-reported rally:
Some 35,000 people rallied across from the United Nations to protest Ahmadinejad’s presence at the world body. The crowd also wanted to show solidarity for Israel and implore the United Nations to enforce Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended Israel’s war this summer with Hezbollah […]

Lord Carey backs Pope

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

From The Times (London):
Carey backs Pope and issues warning on ‘violent’ Islam
by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent, and Richard Owen, in Rome
THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s “extraordinarily effective and lucid” speech.
Lord Carey said that […]

Pope rage

Monday, September 18th, 2006

As is now well known, Pope Benedict last week gave an academic lecture which has apparently caused offense to Muslims. You can read the lecture to see just how innocuous the remarks were here. His remarks seem to have been quite deliberately ripped out of context.
But the madness continues with violence, church burnings […]