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		<title>Engaging Critics, Isolating Delegitimizers</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2010/03/12/critics-or-delegitimizers-gidi-grinstei/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2010/03/12/critics-or-delegitimizers-gidi-grinstei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Basic Delegitimacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Cohen of the AJC wrote to me about the Reut Institute’s point in our recent report on Israel’s challenge of delegitimization about &#8221;engaging the critics and isolating the delegitimizers.&#8221; Ben gave an interesting example about a piece that he wrote for several blogs attacking a British Labour MP who wrote a disgracefully anti-Semitic article about Israel. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=2790&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Why be Jewish&#8217; Gathering: Tikun Olam as a Tool for Renaissance</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/05/24/why-be-jewish-renaissance-bronfman-gidi-grinstein/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/05/24/why-be-jewish-renaissance-bronfman-gidi-grinstein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 08:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing for a project of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation’s Bronfman Vision Forum &#8211; &#8216;Why Be Jewish Gathering: Renaissance in a Time of Ration, Gidi argues that one possible engine of Jewish renaissance may be our mobilization to serve our mission of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. Renaissance in a Time of Ration challenges us to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1749&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reut Update: The ISRAEL 15 Vision and Regional Development</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/04/13/israel-15-vision-bottom-ip-reu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Pesach, we plan to update our community regarding developments in different areas of our work. Today&#8217;s focus is on the teams dealing with the ISRAEL 15 Vision and regional development (bottom up processes). Version B of Document on ISRAEL 15 Vision was Published: The document: &#8220;ISRAEL 15 Vision: Principles and Guidelines for a Social and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1512&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reut Update: National Security and the Political Process</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/04/12/israel-national-security-palestine-peac/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/04/12/israel-national-security-palestine-peac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During Pesach, we plan to update our community regarding developments in different areas of our work. This post focuses on the teams dealing with Israel&#8217;s national security and the political process with the Palestinians. Israeli-Palestinian Political Process: The incoming Netanyahu Government has declared that it will carry out a reassessment in this area. The Reut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1510&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reut Update: Development and Fundraising</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/04/08/reut-update-development-and-fundraising/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/04/08/reut-update-development-and-fundraising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Pesach, we plan to update our community regarding developments in different areas of our work. Today&#8217;s focus is on our development and fundraising. Development and fundraising: Reut continues to strengthen its financial resilience and to lay the foundations for further growth. Our trips to Los Angeles, New York and Dallas have been successful and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1515&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reut Update: The Incoming Government</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/04/07/netanyahu-government-reu/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/04/07/netanyahu-government-reu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reut-blog.org/?p=1508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During Pesach, we plan to update our community regarding developments in different areas of our work. Today&#8217;s focus is on the new Israeli government and the opportunities for promoting the Reut vision and mission. The Netanyahu Government has taken office. My personal opinion has been that it is critically important for Israel to have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1508&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Elections Epitomize Israel&#8217;s Crisis of Governance</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/18/israel-elections-2009-knesset-crisi/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/18/israel-elections-2009-knesset-crisi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effective Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent elections in Israel are an obvious new low point in its prolonged crisis of governance and leadership. This crisis is rooted in an electoral system, which generates constant instability, a fragmented government and Knesset and weak capacity to govern effectively. Its reform should be a top priority of the next government. The first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1159&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think Tanks in Israel: How Influential are they?</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/12/think-tanks-israel-reut-grinstei/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/12/think-tanks-israel-reut-grinstei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reut-blog.org/?p=1104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article questions whether Israel needs think tanks. While I don&#8217;t agree with all the conclusions, some of the analysis is on point. It was due to my frustrations with the existing model that led me to design Reut the way it has been designed. Primarily, the resources and capacities allocated by the Israeli government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1104&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Elections 2009: Strengthening Israel&#8217;s System of Governance</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/10/israel-elections-2009-knesset-par/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/10/israel-elections-2009-knesset-par/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effective Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Improving the Government’s ability to govern is the most important challenge facing Israel. We need to prolong average tenures of Knesset, Governments and Ministers, as well as to increase cohesion. This can be achieved by ‘direct nomination’ of the head of the largest party to Prime Minister. One of Israel&#8217;s greatest problems is the low [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1124&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the Middle East (5): Setting Sights Low</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/08/obama-middle-east-olmert-bus/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/08/obama-middle-east-olmert-bus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidi Grinstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The pathology of the Bush Administration &#8211; and of the Olmert Government &#8211; has been setting unattainable objectives and then going for them. I&#8217;ve heard many people advising the new administration &#8220;not to repeat W&#8217;s mistakes&#8221; citing primarily his lack of high-level American involvement and not being evenhanded. However, in my view, Bush&#8217;s main mistake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&#038;blog=4293676&#038;post=1097&#038;subd=blogreut&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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