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    Founded directly after Israel’s establishment, UNRWA was established to temporarily assist Palestinian refugees displaced by the war. Decades later, it continues to provide services to almost six million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. Beyond UNRWA, the UN has maintained peacekeeping missions in the Middle East for decades, including UNIFIL in Lebanon. However, some wonder whether they don’t do enough to either directly help Palestinians or improve the humanitarian situation. Those who believe the UN’s efforts hurt argue their forces are ineffective in stopping violent actors such as Hamas and Hezbollah and fail to maintain strict neutrality. Those who believe the UN’s efforts help argue that without peacekeeping forces, refugee populations in the region would face more severe humanitarian crises. Also, despite their limitations, they act as buffers between warring factions, preventing wider regional escalations. With this context, we debate the question: UN Efforts in the Middle East: Helping or Hurting?
    
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Jim Harper

Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute

A nationally recognized privacy, Internet, and technology policy expert, Jim has testified in Congress a half-dozen times and in state legislatures nationwide. He advises the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on privacy issues, and his book “Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood” made him a leading fighter against a U.S. national identity system.

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With Esther Dyson, Jim Harper, Jeff Jarvis, Harry Lewis, Randal C. Picker, Siva Vaidhyanathan

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Soon after Google was founded, it adopted a corporate motto: don’t be evil. Since then, it has been the dominant curator of digital information, cornered the market on private email, and made personal information publicly available in unprecedented fashion. While it provides critical social and economic services for free, it has amassed enormous power over information exchange around the world. Has Google violated its “don’t be evil” motto?

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Google Violates its Don't Be Evil Motto

Soon after Google was founded, it adopted a corporate motto: don’t be evil. Since then, it has been the dominant curator of digital information, cornered the market on private email, and made personal information publicly…

With Esther Dyson, Jim Harper, Jeff Jarvis, Harry Lewis, Randal C. Picker, Siva Vaidhyanathan

November 18, 2008

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