Concerning this change in their ' mission statement , ' Political Research Associates ( PRA ) , which studies the US political right , notes that it occurred three weeks after the September 11 attacks , and considers MEMRI " was previously more forthcoming about its political orientation in its self-description and in staff profiles on its website " . PRA considers that " MEMRI 's slogan , ' Bridging the Language Gap Between the Middle East and the West , ' does not convey the institute 's stridently pro-Israel and anti-Arab political bias . " It further notes , that MEMRI 's founders , Wurmser and Carmon , " are both hardline pro-Israel ideologues aligned with Israel 's Likud party " . Carmon , in a public letter to Juan Cole that included a threat with a lawsuit over his comments on MEMRI , stated that he has never been affiliated with Likud . Cole answered that he had n't alleged that , but that MEMRI would campaign for Likud goals such as the rejection of the Oslo peace process
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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