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Learning from political strife
Caleb Fort
Issue date: 4/24/07 Section: News
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Gregory Gleason, a political science professor, will go on a 10-day trip to Israel at the end of May, but he's not sure what his trip will be like.
"I don't think the itinerary is something that's public," he said. "People are getting blown up - it's not something where you want people to know when you'll be someplace."
Gleason was selected as a 2007-08 academic fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a nongovernmental foundation in Washington, D.C.
Gleason and 45 fellows will go to Israel to discuss the threat terrorism poses to democratic countries.
They will attend lectures by diplomats, academics and military officials about terrorism and how to combat it.
The trip will not focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said David Silverstein, vice president of campus education and grassroots programs for the foundation.
"It's actually very little about that," he said. "We use Israel as a case study about a democratic nation defending itself against the threat of terrorism."
The lecturers are from India, Israel, Jordan, Turkey and the U.S.
The fellows will go on field trips to Israeli military and police facilities.
Gleason said he is not concerned about his safety on the trip.
"It's risky, but I'm not worried about it," he said. "There are risks in going to New York."
Gleason, who said he has been to Kazakhstan at least 75 times, has spent much of his career studying former Soviet countries.
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ZIONIST
posted 4/24/07 @ 9:00 AM MST
An enhanced view of FDD's origins is expressed in the 17 November 2003 issue of The American Conservative article by Daniel McCarthy, "Most Favored Democracy":
In early 2001, a tightly knit group of billionaire philanthropists conceived of a plan to win American sympathy for Israel's response to the Palestinian intifada. (Continued…)
Neocon
posted 4/24/07 @ 9:02 AM MST
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), founded shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, is an organization purportedly devoted to supporting the war against terror and promoting democracy across the globe. (Continued…)
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