Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


Politics

Commons motion: get your MP to sign

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

This Early Day Motion in the UK’s House of Commons deserves support. If you are in the UK, please urge your Member of Parliament to sign EDM 1641:
That this House notes that this week marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War of 1967, and Israel’s stunning victory against overwhelming odds; recalls that […]

It’s All In The Timing

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

by Gerald A. Honigman
I’m a reasonable sort of guy… really.
I’m all for logic, exchange of ideas, and so forth. In fact, I’m often accused of being too loquacious…if you know what I mean (my publishers certainly do).
Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice was at Sharm el-Sheikh on May 3rd attending an international what-to-do-about-Iraq conference. The […]

Drop fiction that the PA accepts Israel

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

From the Zionist Organization of America:
ZOA: BUSH ADMINISTRATION SHOULD DROP FICTION THAT PALESTINIANS ACCEPT ISRAEL & SEEK PEACEFUL STATE ALONGSIDE ISRAEL
New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush Administration to drop the fiction that Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Arabs in general have accepted Israel’s existence as […]

Norway’s dash for Gaza

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

As long as Europe allows the Arabs to fantasize about “the right of return” there can be no end to this conflict.
by Alexander Zvielli, Jerusalem Post
Why was Raymond Johansen, the Norwegian deputy foreign minister, in such a hurry to be the first European representative to meet Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the new Palestinian […]

Arafat’s murders covered up

Monday, January 8th, 2007

From HIR
Just a few days ago, on 1 January 2007, Caroline Glick published an article in the Jerusalem Post that reports on a just-released US State Department cable from 33 years ago which demonstrates that the US State Department — the organ officially responsible for determining US foreign policy — knew that Yasser Arafat’s (now […]

Sharansky quitting politics

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

From JTA:
Natan Sharansky is quitting Israeli politics.
Sources close to the Soviet refusenik-turned-Likud lawmaker said Wednesday he would step down from the Knesset in coming days.
He is expected to take up a full-time position at the Shalem Center, a conservative Jerusalem think tank.
Sharansky was one of the best-known Jewish dissidents in the former Soviet […]