Press Releases
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The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) today called upon the White House to communicate its expectation that Egypt's ruling Supreme Military Council will act to secure the Sinai border with Israel and act to curb attacks on the pipeline supplying Israel and Jordan with natural gas.
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) today expressed support for the Obama Administration’s recognition that Iran has been assisting terrorist groups in their attacks on U.S. troops.
JINSA applauded the recent decision by the Government of Greece to block the departure of a flotilla of ships intending to seek confrontation by violating Israel's legal blockade of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.
President Obama’s attempt today to link the stalled Palestinian-Israel negotiations to social and economic progress in the Arab world will unnecessarily increase tensions between Washington and Jerusalem, said JINSA Executive Director Tom Neumann.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, JINSA expressed its discontent with the State Department's controversial decision to send Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to the Middle East to promote religious tolerance and discuss Muslim life in America.
The case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (HLP), was decided in a 6-3 decision on Monday. The court upheld the existing law, which has its roots in the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and is further expressed in the USA Patriot Act.
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) declined to meet with a delegation from Turkey's ruling party, the AKP, this week. JINSA views the AKP invitation as an attempt by the Government of Turkey to avoid dealing with the Government of Israel by appealing to the American Jewish community. As such, the effort failed.
In the spring 2010 issue of the Journal of International Security Affairs, released this week, Congressman (and Senate candidate) Mark Kirk, chair of the Iran Working Group in the House of Representatives, asks: "Is [President Obama] afraid that public discussions of human rights abuses in Iran will offend the regime and undermine talks over the Iranian nuclear program? If that’s the case, this Administration has lost its way when it comes to our most basic American values."
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs today called into question the Obama Administration’s approach to the Middle East.
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs today condemned the "harsh and condescending" tone used by senior Obama Administration officials to castigate the Israeli government, in complete contravention of accepted behavior between long-standing democratic allies.
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