Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


United Nations

Israel’s statement to the UN Security Council

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

“The Lebanese Government must seize the opportunity to wrest their country from the grips of terror “
Statement by H.E. Ambassador Dan Gillerman, Permanent Representative of Israel before the Security Council during the open debate on “The Situation in the Middle East” (14 July 2006)
Mr. President,
Let me take you back to a warm summer’s day […]

Letter to Kofi Annan

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

There follows a letter to the UN Secretary-General from the Anti-Defamation League regarding the disgraceful actions of the new “Human Rights Council”. Please visit the ADL site to sign the letter.
Dear Secretary-General Annan:
On the eve of the first session of the new Human Rights Council in Geneva, you rightly said: “I hope we are […]

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 […]

An act of war

Monday, June 26th, 2006

For years while Arafat was in charge of the Palestinian Authority (PA) the world lived with the fiction that the terrorist attacks on Israel were conducted by militant groups outside of Arafat’s control, while Arafat himself promised continually to rein in the terrorists. (He was of course the terrorist par excellence, but bizarrely feted […]

U.S. Knew Arafat Was Behind Murder of Diplomats

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

From Israel National News:
The American government knew from the outset that Yasser Arafat was behind the 1973 terrorist attack that killed two diplomats in Sudan, according to secret documents released by the State Department and reported by CBS news.
The State Department apparently was not anxious to publicly link Arafat or his Fatah movement to the […]

Israel “behind both world wars”

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Israel is blamed for many things, but bizarrely Syria has now accused Israel - founded in 1948 - of being behind both World War I and World War II! It happened at a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, called to discuss terrorism. As reported in the Jerusalem Post:
The [Israeli] ambassador said Israel […]