[NUIS Work Plan, page 77:]
Foreign Relations DepartmentVision:
“The Foreign Relations Department will act to strengthen the link between the student population in Israel and students around the world, and to develop their dialog. The Department will represent the union with international organizations and will be a partner in the general national effort of explaining [hasbara] Israel around the world.”
Targets:
1. The Department will harness itself to the national effort to explain [hasbara] the position of Israel in the world.2. The Department will act to intensify ties between Israeli students and students around theworld.3. The Department will act to entrench the Union’s position in the international arena.4. The Department will develop the mutual relationships between the union and variousorganizations relating to its activity, in Israel and around the world.
Specifying goals for the targets:1. The Department will harness itself to the national effort to explain [hasbara] theposition of Israel in the world.
1A. Goal: the Department will act, in cooperation with government ministries andadditional organizations, to improve the explanation [hasbara] of Israel’s position aroundthe world.Plan: In the face of the multiplicity of organizations in Israel that do
hasbara
and the lackof any real coordination and cooperation among them, the Union will act to form “
around table
” where the various organizations will take part. The cooperation is meant toempower the methods of
hasbara
and to pool resources. Additionally, it is the goal of theUnion to expand the
hasbara
done by Israeli students, and through them present thepretty face of Israel. It is the Department’s aspiration that through this cooperation, thenumber of delegations and events in which the student population takes place willexpand, and that the support by government ministries will also expand, in future, insending NUIS delegations abroad and subsidizing them.Operational organization: Foreign Relations Department head, NUIS president.
Metric Work Plan Target
Writing a general jointoperative planCreating a “round table” for forming aplan that will pool forces andresources; additionally, the plan willmake it clear why the NUIS and thestudents should be used in favor of practical
hasbara
.December 2011Holding work meetings topromote the
hasbara
planHolding work meetings at the NUIS.Every other monthReceiving subsidies for this Further to the meetings, we will want Throughout the
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