Natan Sharansky - Revision history

David: /* Affiliations */

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Matthew Pringle: Israeli Think Tanker category added

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Hilary Aked: /* The 'moral clarity' of Ronald Reagan */

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The 'moral clarity' of Ronald Reagan

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The 'new anti-Semitism'

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History

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Part of President Bush's political DNA

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Part of President Bush's political DNA

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 == Affiliations ==
 *[[Shalem Center]]'s [[Adelson Institute]] - former Chairman and Distinguished Fellow
 *[[Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism]] - Founder

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 [[Image:Natan Sharansky.jpg|right|thumb|260px| Natan Sharansky of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] photographed in 2007 ]]
-'''[[Natan Sharansky]]''' (formerly Anatoly Sharansky) is a former Soviet dissident prisoner and former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, now working for the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]]. His ideas have been praised and echoed by former President [[George W. Bush]] and his former Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]].<ref>Clare Murphy, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4195303.stm Bush's new book for a new term], BBC News Online, 21 January 2005, accessed 2 July 2012</ref>
+'''[[Natan Sharansky]]''' (born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky in Stalino, now Donetsk) is a former Soviet dissident prisoner and former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, now working for the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]]. His ideas have been praised and echoed by former President [[George W. Bush]] and his former Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]].<ref>Clare Murphy, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4195303.stm Bush's new book for a new term], BBC News Online, 21 January 2005, accessed 2 July 2012</ref>
 ==History==

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-[[Category:Israel Lobby|Sharansky, Natan]][[category:Iraq War 2003|Sharansky, Natan]]
+[[Category:Israel Lobby|Sharansky, Natan]][[Category:Israeli Think Tanker|Sharansky, Natan]][[category:Iraq War 2003|Sharansky, Natan]]
 [[Category:Neocons|Sharansky, Natan]]

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 ===The 'moral clarity' of Ronald Reagan===
-Sharansky has said that the collapse of the Soviet Union can be attributed in large part to three men: [[Andrei Sakharov]], [[Henry 'Scoop' Jackson]], and [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/224ncdel.asp?page=2 The View from the Gulag], 21 June 2004, The Weekly Standard VOL. 9, NO. 39, accessed 3 July 2012</ref>
+Sharansky has said that the collapse of the Soviet Union can be attributed in large part to three men: [[Andrei Sakharov]], [[Henry 'Scoop' Jackson]], and [[Ronald Reagan]]. He has praised Reagan's well-known speech in which he dubbed the Soviet Union an 'Evil Empire' and for what Sharansky calls Reagan's 'moral clarity to understand the truth, and the courage both to speak the truth and to do what needed to be done to support it.'<ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/224ncdel.asp?page=2 The View from the Gulag], 21 June 2004, The Weekly Standard VOL. 9, NO. 39, accessed 3 July 2012</ref>
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 *Double standards - 'we must ask whether criticism of Israel is being applied selectively. In other words, do similar policies by other governments engender the same criticism, or is there a double standard at work?'
 *Deligitimation - 'In the past, anti-Semites tried to deny the legitimacy of the Jewish religion, the Jewish people, or both. Today, they are trying to deny the legitimacy of the Jewish state, presenting it, among other things, as the last vestige of colonialism. While criticism of an Israeli policy may not be anti-Semitic, the denial of Israel's right to exist is always anti-Semitic.'<ref>Natan Sharansky, [http://www.foiwa.org.au/sites/default/files/pdf/Anti-Semitism-in-3D.pdf Anti-Semitism in 3D], Jerusalem Post via Friends of Israel West Australia, accessed June 26, 2012</ref>
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 ==History==
-Born Anatoly Sharansky in 1948 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, he was one of the founders of the [[Helsinki Monitoring Group]]. In 1973 he was denied an exit visa to Israel on security grounds and becmae heavily involved in the refusenik movement and "underground Zionist activities"<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/3/Natan%20Sharansky Natan Sharansky] Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed June 26, 2012</ref>. In 1977 he was arrested on charges of spying for the United States. Although the U.S. government denied any connection between Sharansky and the C.I.A., Sharansky was convicted in 1978, sentenced to 13 years and imprisoned in a gulag (labour camp). His wife, Avital, campaigned for his release in conjunction with organizations around the world<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/3/Natan%20Sharansky Natan Sharansky] Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed June 26, 2012</ref>. In February 1986 he was released in a US-Soviet prisoner exchange and immediately emigrated to Israel, adopting the Hebrew name Natan.
+Born Anatoly Sharansky in 1948 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, he was one of the founders of the [[Helsinki Monitoring Group]]. In 1973 he was denied an exit visa to Israel on security grounds and becmae heavily involved in the refusenik movement and "underground Zionist activities"<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/3/Natan%20Sharansky Natan Sharansky] Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed June 26, 2012</ref>. In 1977 he was arrested on charges of spying for the United States. Although the U.S. government denied any connection between Sharansky and the C.I.A., Sharansky was convicted in 1978, sentenced to 13 years and imprisoned in a gulag (labour camp). His wife, Avital, campaigned for his release in conjunction with organizations around the world<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/3/Natan%20Sharansky Natan Sharansky] Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed June 26, 2012</ref>, and the support of President [[Ronald Reagan]]<ref>Gil Troy, [http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=207392 Cultivating democracy, Reagan- and Sharansky-style], 8 February 2011, Jerusalem Post, accessed 3 July 2012</ref>. In February 1986 he was released in a US-Soviet prisoner exchange and immediately emigrated to Israel, adopting the Hebrew name Natan.
 In 1988, he was elected President of the newly created [[Zionist Forum]], active in promoting immigration and absorption of Soviet Jews, and was an associate editor of the [[Jerusalem Report]]. In 1994 he co-founded [[Peace Watch]] – an "independent non-partisan group committed to monitoring the compliance to agreements signed by Israel and the PLO"<ref>[http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Profile/Chairman/Biography/Biography.htm Biography:Natan Sharansky], Jewish Agency For Israel, accessed June 26, 2012</ref>. Then, in 1995 with [[Yoel Edelstein]] he co-founded a political party, [[Yisrael Ba'aliyah]], allegedly with the aim of bringing a million Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union and a million Jewish citizens of the United States and Europe to Israel. <ref name=Redress>Redress Information & Analysis,

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 ==Activities==
 ===Part of President Bush's political DNA===
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+<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="[[George W. Bush]] praising Sharansky at the 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom presentation">bEtd6X5syi4&feature=related</youtube>
 Sharansky is the author of three books. His memoir, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8Vfe7apFSxEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sharansky+fear+no+evil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MM3pT8XEDM2R0QXE_7iqAQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sharansky%20fear%20no%20evil&f=false Fear No Evil]'', was published in the United States in 1988 and describes his time as a prisoner in the Soviet Union. His latest book, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gC9u0DLI34wC&pg=PR1&dq=sharansky+fear+no+evil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MM3pT8XEDM2R0QXE_7iqAQ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=sharansky%20fear%20no%20evil&f=false Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy]'' (2008), espouses the importance of national and religious identity in building democracy.

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 Sharansky is the author of three books. His memoir, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8Vfe7apFSxEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sharansky+fear+no+evil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MM3pT8XEDM2R0QXE_7iqAQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sharansky%20fear%20no%20evil&f=false Fear No Evil]'', was published in the United States in 1988 and describes his time as a prisoner in the Soviet Union. His latest book, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gC9u0DLI34wC&pg=PR1&dq=sharansky+fear+no+evil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MM3pT8XEDM2R0QXE_7iqAQ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=sharansky%20fear%20no%20evil&f=false Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy]'' (2008), espouses the importance of national and religious identity in building democracy.
-His most famous work ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vc_qZfWWoe8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=sharansky+fear+no+evil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MM3pT8XEDM2R0QXE_7iqAQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false The Case for Democracy: the Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror]'' (2004) became widely known when President [[George W. Bush]] revealed that he had read and agreed with it. Bush stated that the book had become "part of my presidential DNA"<ref name=Barry>Tom Barry, [http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27345 "POLITICS-US: A Meeting of Minds and Policy"], IPS News, 7 February 2005</ref>. Co-authored with [[Ron Dermer]], the book argued that American foreign policy could and should uncompromisingly spread democracy in the rest of the world. Anatol Lieven, writing in the Financial Times has suggested that 'Mr Sharansky's book...is one of the few works on the Middle East that Mr Bush has read.'<ref>[http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.co.uk/2005/03/book-of-sharansky.html The Book of Sharansky], 18 March 2005, Financial Times (paywall) via Jews Sans Frontieres, accessed 3 July 2012</ref>
+His most famous work ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vc_qZfWWoe8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=sharansky+fear+no+evil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MM3pT8XEDM2R0QXE_7iqAQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false The Case for Democracy: the Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror]'' (2004) became widely known when President [[George W. Bush]] revealed that he had read and agreed with it. Bush stated that the book had become "part of my presidential DNA"<ref name=Barry>Tom Barry, [http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27345 "POLITICS-US: A Meeting of Minds and Policy"], IPS News, 7 February 2005</ref>. Co-authored with [[Ron Dermer]], the book argued that American foreign policy could and should uncompromisingly spread democracy in the rest of the world. [[Anatol Lieven]], writing in the [[Financial Times]] has suggested that 'Mr Sharansky's book...is one of the few works on the Middle East that Mr Bush has read.'<ref>[http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.co.uk/2005/03/book-of-sharansky.html The Book of Sharansky], 18 March 2005, Financial Times (paywall) via Jews Sans Frontieres, accessed 3 July 2012</ref>
 The [[Shirley & Banister Public Affairs]] Republican PR firm did promotion for Sharansky's ''Case for Democracy'' book, according to ''Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter''<ref>Vol. 38, No. 18, May 4, 2005.</ref>. ''O'Dwyer's'' credited Shirley & Banister with securing a [[Rush Limbaugh]] interview and a meeting with [[George Walker Bush|President Bush]], who along with [[Condoleezza Rice]], has cited the work in speeches and interviews.