Ariel Center for Policy Research

According to the Center's web site, "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."

Comment
The ACPR web site contains a section regarding two appearances "on the Hill" by ACPR, both in 1997 for Congressman Jim Saxon and Congressman Bill McCollum, as well as a section entitled "Isreal's Friends", which consists of three speeches made by Thomas D. DeLay (R-Tx), House Majority Leader.

Researchers / Contributing Experts
"Presently, the ACPR does not employ a regular group of researchers, but rather orders specific research projects and policy papers from a pool of internationally renowned experts on the Middle East and related strategic affairs."

Contributing Experts for ACPR include:


 * Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
 * Meyrav Wurmser
 * Moshe Sharon

Board of Directors

 * Israel Hanukoglu
 * Mordechai Kreiner
 * Tsvi Ophir
 * Ezra Sohar

Advisory Council

 * Moshe Arens – Israel
 * Yossi Ben-Aharon – Israel
 * Yosef Ben-Shlomo – Israel
 * Louis René Beres – USA
 * Yossef Bodansky – USA
 * David Bukay – Israel
 * Paul Eidelberg – Israel
 * Raya Epstein – Israel
 * Michel Gurfinkiel – France
 * Haim Haham – Israel
 * Gustav Hendriksen – Sweden
 * Arieh Hillman – Israel
 * Raphael Israeli – Israel
 * Shmuel Katz – Israel
 * Netta Kohn Dor-Shav – Israel
 * Steven Plaut – Israel
 * Yair Shamir – Israel
 * Yitzhak Shamir – Israel
 * Moshe Shamir – Israel
 * Shlomo Sharan – Israel
 * Moshe Sharon – Israel
 * Martin Sherman – Israel
 * Eliav Shochetman – Israel
 * Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto – Israel
 * William Van Cleave – USA
 * Dror Zoreff – USA

Chairman, Special Projects

 * Yoram Ettinger

Director

 * Arieh Stav

Publications
"Through publication of Nativ, the Executive Board and the Editorial Board of the Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR) seek to establish a journal of incisive discussion on all cultural and political questions concerning the Jewish state and the Jewish people."

Contact

 * Ariel Center for Policy Research
 * P.O. Box 830
 * Shaarei Tikva 44810
 * Israel
 * Phone: 972-3-906-3920
 * FAX: 972-3-906-3905
 * Email: info ATacpr.org.il
 * URL: www.acpr.org.il