Educational
Connections
Women for Israel's Tomorrow: Women in Green
www.womeningreen.org
"Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in
Green) is a rapidly growing grassroots women's movement --
grandmothers, mothers, wives, and daughters; housewives and
professionals; secular and religious -- all bound together by a shared
love, devotion and concern for Israel. We are not affiliated with, nor
do we support, any particular political party. We have chapters
throughout Israel and abroad, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago
and Toronto. We also have many men among our supporters.
In existence only since late 1993, the Women for Israel's Tomorrow, a
registered non-profit organization, has accomplished a great deal. In
addition to weekly street theater and public demonstrations, we write
weekly articles, commission posters, advertise in newspapers, and
lecture to groups in order to educate the electorate on the
consequences of certain government policies, such as abandoning the
Golan Heights for an illusory promise of peace, and pandering to
Arafat, without requiring him to live up to his obligations under the
Oslo Accords. We insist that Israel remain a Jewish state. We are
actively and intimately connected with the fight to preserve a united
Jerusalem. We support and encourage the brave Jewish community in the
ancient city of Hebron, and sponsor annual Hanukkah and Purim parties
with gifts and professional entertainment for the isolated Jewish
children in that community.
Our movement is dedicated to the security and Jewish heritage of
historic Israel, and we are outspoken in support of our cause. We are
popularly known as the "Women in Green" because of the green hats we
wear.
A leading Hebrew newspaper, Maariv, has described us as "the most
authentic and exciting popular resistance movement to have arisen here
(in Israel) in the last few years". Co-chairwomen: Ruth Matar and
Nadia Matar.
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Freeman Center for
Strategic Studies (Houston, Texas)
Website and to subscribe:
http://freeman.io.com
In depth news and analyses.
"The Freeman Center for Strategic Studies was founded in Houston,
Texas, U.S.A. in 1992 by Bernard J. Shapiro. The Center, which
attempts to aid Israel in her quest to survive in a hostile world,
commissions extensive research into the military and strategic issues
related to the Arab-Israeli conflict and disseminates pertinent
information to the Jewish community and worldwide. Its Board of
Directors and Advisory Committee include leading Pro-Israel activists
from around the world. For more information, find out about the many
Freeman Center activities and see the Freeman Center resources below.
The Freeman Center for Strategic
Studies was named after Harry W. Freeman. Freeman was a Judaic
scholar, fluent in six languages, and a brilliant attorney. He was a
defender of the poor and the disadvantaged against the forces that
kept them powerless." Subscribe: Message to:
majordomo@lists.io.com
Message: SUBSCRIBE freemanlist.
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Middle East Media
and Research Institute (MEMRI) (Washington, D.C.)
www.memri.org
.E-mail:
MEMRI@erols.com
Translates Islamic Media Sources.
The Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) is an
independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization located in
Washington, D.C., providing translations of the Arab media and
original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East.
MEMRI was established in February 1998 to study and analyze
intellectual developments and politics in the Middle East and the
Arab-Israeli conflict, with a particular emphasis on its
Israeli-Palestinian dimension. In its research, MEMRI is dedicated to
the proposition that the values of liberal democracy, civil society,
and the free market are relevant to the Middle East and to United
States foreign policy towards the region.
MEMRI relies on primary source material that it translates from the
original Arabic and Hebrew. These translations serve as a basis for
original analysis and for informing the broader public about
political, cultural, social, and religious trends in the Middle East.
MEMRI also studies internal developments in Israel, analyzing
political and cultural trends in Israel. In its research, the
institute emphasizes the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish
people and to the state of Israel.
In pursuing its goals, the Institute produces Inquiry & Analysis
(original analysis of Middle East affairs) and Special Dispatch
(translations from the Arab media) series distributed by fax and
e-mail to legislators, diplomats, journalists, academics, and other
interested parties, in-depth Special Reports, and videotapes from Arab
television. MEMRI's staff also publishes articles on a regular basis
in a variety of scholarly journals and magazines.
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Center for
Monitoring the Impact of Peace.
www.edume.org
The Center for Monitoring the Impact of
Peace, (CMIP) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization
established in 1998 under the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law of the
State of New York. Its purpose is to encourage the development and
fostering of peaceful relations between peoples and nations, by
establishing a climate of tolerance and mutual respect founded on the
rejection of violence as a means to resolving conflicts.
Is it possible to establish and maintain a climate of peace when the
people of the countries and communities directly concerned are being
taught from early childhood to beware of other peoples and
communities, receive a negative and hateful image of their neighbors,
and are led to identify almost exclusively with heroes embodying the
cult of force and the resort to violence?
This is one of the crucial questions that the Center is considering,
especially through the study of curricula, schoolbooks for students
and handbooks for the teachers, a revealing indicator of the views and
values societies want to instill in their youth.
CMIP will disseminate these findings and consider initiatives to
promote the renunciation of violence and the changing of stereotypes.
Thus we hope to build a sound basis for a genuine and lasting peace
between Israel and its Arab neighbors in the Middle East, with a view
to expanding this mission to other regions in the world.
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Ariel Center for Policy
Research.
www.acpr.org.il
The Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR)
was established in 1997 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization,
committed to stimulating and informing the national and international
debates concerning all aspects of security policy - notably those
policies which are an outcome of the political process started in Oslo
and subsequently called the Peace Process. Peace is a noble challenge
and there is no other nation in the world which needs peace more than
Israel. However, a true peace can only be obtained in the Middle East
if Israeli security and national interests are safeguarded. A peace
which will force Israel to its pre-1967 borders, i.e. losing those
territorial assets critically needed for the very existence of the
Jewish State will not be but a recipe for war.
The ACPR has taken upon itself to help crystallize a strategic design
for the State of Israel. This will be presented to the policy-makers
and general public by various means. Among them, research and policy
papers, forums of experts, video and film productions, an internet
site, publishing house and a major journal of strategic thought.
The "peace process" whose main
watchword is "territories for peace", involves a paradox whereby a
miniscule democracy is being forced to provide its totalitarian
enemies - scores of times its size - the only thing it lacks:
territory.
In exchange, the surrounding tyrannies are being asked to provide the
one and only thing that they lack: peace.
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Jewish
Statesmanship.
www.Jewishstatesmanship.com
No charge to subscribe to Dr. Paul
Eidelberg's essays and proposals for the future of the Jewish state.
Books, articles.
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Foreign Policy Research
Institute:
www.fpri.org
Bringing the insights of scholarship to
bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national
interests. perspective to events by fitting them into the larger
historical and cultural context of international politics. Conducts
research on pressing issues -- the war on terrorism, developments in
the Middle East, nuclear proliferation in South Asia, relations with
China, Russia, and Japan -- and long-term questions, such as the roles
of religion and ethnicity in international politics, or the nature of
Western identity and its implications for the U.S. and the Atlantic
Alliance. Publishes a quarterly journal, Orbis, and a series of
bulletins, both of which draw on the research findings of our
scholars, our Inter-University Study Groups, our conferences, and our
seminars. Through our Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education
and through our History Academy, educates the public and "teach the
teachers." Serves the community and the nation, the policymakers and
the educators, Wall Street and Main Street.
Each week, FPRI transmits by email a succinct analysis of some
critical international issue. These bulletins are emailed to some
18,000 key people in 85 countries directly, and reach thousands more
indirectly by postings on the Internet. Frequently, they are reprinted
in or quoted by newspapers around the world. Our scholars are also
invited to testify on Capitol Hill, comment on national radio and
television, and consult informally with U.S. government officials.
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