JINSAThe Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is as a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan think-tank 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,...New Israel Defense Attache Addresses JINSA Event- May 1, 2008 Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, Defense and Armed Forces Attache at the Embassy of Israel, spoke before a JINSA-sponsored a lunch for defense industry executives in late April 2008.http://www.jinsa.org/articles/view.html?documentid=4060 JINSA Observors See March 2008 Elections in Taiwan Impacted by PRC Hostility and Economic Woes- May 1, 2008 Cross-strait tensions decreased dramatically in March when Kuomintang candidate Ma Ying-jeou, won the island republics presidency by 16 percentage points over his Democratic Progressive Party rival, Frank Hsieh. Having captured a two-thirds majority in December elections for the Taiwanese parliament, the Legislative Yuan, Ma and his KMT after eight years out of power must now make good on campaign promises and please a constituency worried over a sluggish economy, diminished relations with the..http://www.jinsa.org/articles/view.html?documentid=4057 Top Counter-Terror Official Addresses Dinner Honoring Jeff Love with 2008 Houston Leadership Award- May 1, 2008 A record-breaking crowd of more than 750 guests gathered on April 10 to honor leading Houstonian Jeff Love with JINSAs Houston Leadership Award. Vice Admiral Joseph Maguire, USN, Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) presented the keynote address. Prior to his current position at the NCTC, Adm. Maguire, a Navy SEAL, served as commander of Naval Special Warfare.http://www.jinsa.org/articles/view.html?documentid=4054 Jihadi Islams Anti-Semitism Product of Nazi Influence- May 1, 2008 Dr. Matthias Kuentzel, author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 911 (Telos Press Publishing, 2007), traces the origins of the virulent anti-Semitism that permeates Jihadi Islam not to the Koran but to Nazism. Kuentzel, a member of Germanys Green Party and a Research Associate at the Sassoon Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Hebrew University, addressed a group of 60 JINSA members and supporters at a Europe Project Forum on March 19 in Washington, DC.http://www.jinsa.org/articles/view.html?documentid=4052 |