The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), also known as Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in honor of Meir Amit, is an Israeli-based research group with ties to the

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and support from the

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.''Warnings Not Enough for Gaza Families''
TAGHREED EL-KHODARY and ISABEL KERSHNER, 5 January 2009 The organisation is part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center (IICC).

Establishment and organization

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) was established in 2002. It is directed by Colonel (Ret.) Reuven Erlich, a former IDF intelligence officer. According to its website, the center is part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center (IICC), an NGO dedicated to the memory of the fallen of the Israeli Intelligence Community. The organization has close ties with Israel's military leadership and maintains an office at the Israeli Defense Ministry. Several former members of the Israeli intelligence community (

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, Military Intelligence, the

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and Nativ) have criticized the "symbiotic" relationship between the center and Israeli military intelligence and the center's establishment, arguing that the connection of military intelligence with a propaganda body would be detrimental to "objective" and "ideologically unbiased" analysis.

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wrote in ''

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'' that a spokesman for the center had acknowledged that it had received some Israeli government financing.

Activities

The center's research staff, some of whom are former Military Intelligence officers, compile weekly reports that are published online at their website."An intelligence think-tank,"
Yaakov Katz, March 15, 2010, ''Jerusalem Post''. Main topics of the center are the "Palestinian terrorist organizations", the

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, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the "campaign to delegitimize Israel", financing and marketing terrorism, and the states which sponsor terrorism (especially Iran and Syria),

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, radical Islam, global jihad and Al-Qaeda, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2010 the center published a research on

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as a response to the Goldstone report. The study concluded that

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made use of civilian infrastructures and population (including children) as

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s.Hamas and the Terrorist Threat from the Gaza Strip

References

External links

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (main website)

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
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