Talk:Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs

Why is it a good thing to create all the open wiki-links to every country mentioned in the article?

Ditto ... don't understand at all the numerous open wiki-links to years/dates, countries, etc. If I wanted to read all that ... or needed information on all of them ... I'd visit the Wikipedia.

Deleted excessive/repetitive wiki-links to countries. If the need should arise to include them in the SourceWatch, then checking the "What links here" will do the job to bring one back to JINSA. Right?

However, I fail to see why anyone would want to locate all the entries which mention the United States, Israel, etc.,....

10/14/03 08:08 (EDT) AI - It is unclear as to why today's "edits" to Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs are necessary .....

10/20/03 15:45 (EDT) AI


 * For the most part (3 of 5) todays edits removed unnecessary adjectives. I further modified para/line 24, noting that today's edits added unnecessary subjectivity. Para/line 2 still needs attention as to the relevance of time relationship to 9/11 and any increase or decrease of aid. --maynard


 * please reference http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5021.htm


 * Most people on this planet, and a great many state leaders, understand that peace is both desirable and possible, and that DEescallation is required, and DEarmament is required, and that both imperialism and capitalism as being experienced through anti-competitive trans/multi national unregulated monopolistic corporations are adverse to democracy and other reasonable goals.


 * Only the governments of United States and Israel, under current regime administrations and their dittoheads, deny with irrational fabrications and delusions that which the rest of the world, including the corporate sponsors of U.S./Israeli government, see clearly.

I wish to dispute the accuracy of this article. Certain statements have been made concerning quote 'known terrorist states' which are factually inaccurate, heavily biased and prejudicial.


 * Tks for flagging that the page needs some work. I'll try and get it all done today but if not, then in a day or two. --Bob Burton 17:06, 31 December 2006 (EST)


 * P.S. relocating following links from the article page - the heading is too speculative. "Potentially Related Groups"*JCPA*AIPAC*Presidents' conference.

Relocating pending
The material on the page was attibuted to the JINSA website but without specific links and it appears that at least some of it is no longer on their website. I'll retreive relevant referencable bits later or rebuild. --Bob Burton 17:26, 31 December 2006 (EST)

From the JINSA website
 * focusing on the national security interests of the United States. JINSA's aim is three-fold: to ensure a strong and effective U.S. national security policy; to educate American leadership figures on the vital strategic relationship between the United States and Israel; and to strengthening U.S. cooperation with democratic allies, including Taiwan, Jordan, Hungary, Turkey, India, and NATO member nations, amongst others.


 * JINSA's policy recommendations for the U.S. government includes: national ballistic missile defense systems, curbing of regional ballistic missile development and production worldwide, increased counter-terrorism training and funding, prior to September 11th, substantially improved quality-of-life for U.S. service personnel and their families, support for joint U.S.-Israeli training and weapons development programs and a rejection of any peace process with the Palestinians that is not prefaced by a full renunciation of terrorism and a full and effective Palestinian effort to combat terrorism in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas. Further, JINSA supports regime change in nation-states known to provide support or knowingly harbor terrorist groups, including Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Libya.


 * Flag and General Officer's Trip
 * One of JINSA's most important programs is to invite, with the assistance of the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of State, retired U.S. senior military officers to Israel and Jordan. The General and Flag Officer's program, as it is known, allows participants to see with their own eyes, the problems facing the Middle East, in meetings with Israeli and Jordanian political and military leaders. More than 200 retired Admirals and Generals, including Shock and awe author Adm. Leon "Bud" Edney, USN, Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, USA, Maj. Gen. David Grange, USA, Maj. Gen. Jarvis Lynch, USMC, Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow, USA, Adm. Leighton "Snuffy" Smith, USN, Adm. Carl Trost, USN and Brig. Gen. Thomas White, USA, have participated in the trips over the last 21 years.  Participation in the program makes no requirements of the invitees to make statements, form opinions or maintain any further relationship with JINSA, yet many trip alums have participated more than once, and 50 past participants co-authored a statement on violence in the Palestinian-controlled territories that appeared in the New York Times in October 2000.
 * Other Programs
 * JINSA also acts as a liaison between the U.S. military, concerned U.S. citizens and America's leaders in Washington, facilitating base visits, symposia and publications that highlight future trends, growing threats and areas of concern, within the realm of U.S. national security.
 * JINSA has also recently begun a program aimed at exchanging counter-terrorism experience and tactics between U.S. law enforcement agencies and the Israeli national police. The inaugural program, which included 12 police chiefs and sheriffs from departments in major American metropolitan areas, including the Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) of New York and New Jersey, has already led to changes in U.S. counter-terrorism tactics.
 * In addition, JINSA officials have served as official and unofficial representatives of the United States on visits to more than 30 nations, including roles as election observers in former Soviet-bloc republics.
 * Each fall, JINSA presents an annual Distinguished Service Award, named in honor of the late-Senator Henry M. Scoop Jackson to U.S. government leaders (generally a Senator or two members of the U.S. House Representatives) for their career dedication to U.S. national security. Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (2002), Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (1997), Senator Max Cleland (2000), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney (1991) and all three Secretaries of the U.S. Armed Services (2001).
 * Organizational History
 * Founded in 1976, JINSA began as the only U.S. think tank that put "the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship first," citing a concern that U.S. leaders were mistakenly neglecting the relationship between the United States and the only democracy in the Middle East. In the late 1980s, JINSA underwent a profound repurposing of mission which, although retaining the interest in maintaining and strengthening the U.S.-Israeli defense relationship, widened its focus to U.S. defense and foreign policy, in general, with missions and meetings with national leaders and military officials from countries as diverse as Ethiopia, Belgium, South Korea, India, Bulgaria, Italy, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Costa Rica, Spain, Eritrea, Jordan, China and Germany, to name a few.
 * JINSA, a nationally-recognized 501(c)(3) organization, maintains a staunchly non-partisan stance in its official policies and statements, but according to critics, it is closely associated with the neoconservative movement.