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:''Not to be confused with the California-based "Terrorism Information Center"''. 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 close ties to the Israel Defense Forces and the American Jewish Congress.〔(''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.〔ITIC, (''About Us'' ). Accessed July 2014〕 It is directed by Colonel (Ret.) Reuven Erlich,〔 a former IDF intelligence officer.〔(''The terrorist kills, and the bank pays'' ). Yossi Melman, Haaretz, 14 February 2007.〕〔(Britain now nerve centre for Hamas support ), February 25, 2010〕〔(Book debunking ‘Protocols of Zion’ now in Farsi ), 02/05/2012〕 According to its website, the center is part of the ''Israel Intelligence Heritage & 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.〔(''Hezbollah Accused of Using Human Shields'' ), 5 December 2006〕 It has been described as the ''"public face of Israeli intelligence"''〔(''British anti-Israel bias'' ). David Bedein, 29 August 2007〕 and as ''a "pipeline" for the release of information that Israeli military intelligence does not want to be directly associated with''. Several former members of the Israeli intelligence community (Mossad, Military Intelligence, the Shin Bet and Nativ) have criticized the "symbiotic" relationship between the center and Israeli military intelligence and the centre's establishment, arguing that the connection of military intelligence with a propaganda body would be detrimental to "objective" and "ideologically unbiased" analysis. Steven Erlanger wrote in ''The New York Times'' that a spokesman for the center had acknowledged that it receives some Israeli government financing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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