Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


Arab/Israeli Conflict

CAMERA Challenges Episcopal Church

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Episcopal Church’s portrayal of Arab-Israeli conflict is false, says CAMERA
After preparing an analysis of the Episcopal Church’s stance on the Arab-Israeli conflict, CAMERA (The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) sent letters to Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, incoming Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, and to Rev. Canon Brian Grieves, the […]

Hamas Use of Human Shields

Friday, November 10th, 2006

From NGO Monitor:
The Palestinian use of human shields to protect armed gunmen and rocket launching crews from Israeli responses is a widespread but largely unreported aspect of this conflict. On November 2, amidst the ongoing warfare in Gaza, armed Palestinians entered a mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, to escape from IDF units. A standoff […]

Hamas Urges Muslims to Attack U.S

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — Hamas’ military wing called Wednesday on Muslims around the world to attack American targets following reports that an Israeli tank strike killed 18 people in the Gaza Strip.
The threat signaled a possible change in tactics by Hamas militants, who have historically directed their homicide bombings and rocket attacks only […]

Horsefeathers

Monday, November 6th, 2006

by Gerald A. Honigman
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently gave a speech in which she said something to the effect that there would be no greater cause than the birth of Palestine.
Horsefeathers…
While my own limited Arabic, Turkish, and so forth from my own doctoral studies’ days has grown all too rusty over the […]

What did you read in the papers today?

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Want to know what those living in the Palestinian territories get as their daily media diet? Here is a sample, analyzed by Palestinian Media Watch:
Jews fan the flames of evil, provoke wars, control finance and media and dominate US policy
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch
The official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida […]

False hope on Hamas

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

From the Jerusalem Post:
… it is dismaying to recognize the degree to which the EU’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, views some of our realities in this region differently from the way they are perceived not only by most Israelis but by many informed outsiders, too.
In the course of that interview, he made vague comments […]