{"id":8296,"date":"2009-05-20T05:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2009-05-20T05:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T10:55:32","slug":"ofri-ilani-funded-by-us-neocons-think-tank-researchers-now-carving-israeli-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8296","title":{"rendered":"Ofri Ilani: Funded by U.S. neocons, think tank researchers now carving Israeli policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ofri Ilani, <em>Ha&#8217;aretz<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1086260.html\">19 May 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_8297\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8297\" data-attachment-id=\"8297\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=8297\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg?fit=483%2C316\" data-orig-size=\"483,316\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Damon Lynch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;      Photo: Damon Lynch. Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem through barbwire.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg?fit=300%2C196\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg?fit=483%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg?resize=300%2C196\" alt=\"Photo: Damon Lynch. Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem through barbwire.\" title=\"Photo: Damon Lynch\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg?resize=300%2C196 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg?resize=150%2C98 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tadamonalasqa.jpg?w=483 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Damon Lynch. Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem through barbwire.<\/p><\/div>The rooms at Beit Nativ, the Jerusalem building that houses the Shalem Center, have been gradually emptying in recent months, with fellows at the neoconservative research institute taking their leave one by one. But rather than signaling a slump, the depletion is actually a sign of the think tank&#8217;s unprecedented success, because instead of writing scholarly books and articles, the Shalem fellows are now sitting in government offices, helping turn abstract research into concrete policy.<\/p>\n<p>The picture looked quite different a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1086260.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/en\/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&#038;ID=37909\">Obama to Netanyahu: Israel obligated to halt settlements<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/en\/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&#038;ID=37910\">Israel planning settlement after evicting Jerusalem families<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fmep.org\/reports\/archive\/vol.-19\/no.-3\/settlement-freeze-redux\">Settlement Freeze Redux* By Geoffrey Aronson<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.passia.org\/jerusalem\/chronology\/0_chronology.htm\">Historical Chronology &#8211; Jerusalem<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ofri Ilani, Ha&#8217;aretz, 19 May 2009 The rooms at Beit Nativ, the Jerusalem building that houses the Shalem Center, have been gradually emptying in recent months, with fellows at the neoconservative research institute taking their leave one by one. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8296\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-29O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}