Yigal Carmon
Yigal Carmon is the president of the washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) which he co-founded with Meyrav Wurmser in 1998. Carmon holds Israeli-American citizenship and held several positions in the Israeli government prior to founding MEMRI. According to his MEMRI profile Carmon has
- briefed governments worldwide on issues ranging from jihad and terrorism to reform in the Arab world...and conducted briefings before Congress as well as at the State Department, Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, Justice Department, Library of Congress, FBI, National Security Council, and NYPD counterterrorism division, and is frequently interviewed on a variety of Western channels, as well as on Arab TV.[1]
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Career
A former servant in the Israeli Military Intelligence, Colonel Yigal Carmon served in the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence between the years of 1968 to 1988, during which time he was the Acting Head of Civil Administration in Judea as well as an Advisor on Arab Affairs for the Civil Administration. [2] He was formerly an advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Benjamin Netanyahu.[3] Although Carmon argues that MEMRI is a "research organization that doesn't engage in operational recommendation,"[2] he frequently engages in policy analysis in the media and at policy meetings and has written several articles on US mideast foreign policy issues in right-wing publications
MEMRI
Carmon founded MEMRI to "monitor" mid-east media with a heavy emphasis on Arabic and Farsi because he believes that Western outlets don't accurately portray the correct message:
Well, our organization monitors the Arabic and Farsi Iranian media, of text books, of schools in the Arab world, and what is being said in the mosques, and it tries to translate it into English and other European languages -- in fact, all -- in an attempt to mirror what is happening in the Arab world and in Iran as clearly as possible.
- Because what we have seen is that what comes to the West from there is sometimes lacking in terms of what is being -- you have from the Arab world almost a double message.[4]
Affiliations
- MEMRI - Co-founder, President
- Steven Emerson, associate [5]
Notes
- ↑ MEMRI, "About", MEMRI, accessed on 13 October 2010
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ruthie Blum Leibowitz , 'One on One with Yigal Carmon: If MEMRI serves...', The Jerusalem Post, 15 November, 2006, accessed 3 April 2009 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Ruthie" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ A Pessimist's View of the Peace Process, Middle East Forum, 13 February 1997
- ↑ CNN, "Q&A WITH ZAIN VERJEE", CNN.com, 29 July 2002, accessed on 13 October 2010
- ↑ Ahmed Rehab , 'Steven Emerson's Disturbing Track Record', CAIR Chicago website, 31 March, 2007, accessed 3 April, 2009
