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New Phone Number

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:07am

Please note that IPF's phone number has changed. We can now be reached at 212-354-1812. 

We will not stand for this

By Israel Policy Forum
Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 7:46pm

Israel Policy Forum is shocked and appalled by the column published in the Atlanta Jewish Times by its owner and publisher Andrew Adler calling for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States policy includes its helping the Jewish state obl

Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer on 'Reviving the Peace Process' (TRANSCRIPT)

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 10:13am
In an ideal world, if we were writing this up as a scenario we would say let’s put this all on hold, and everyone stays away happily and nothing changes for the worse, and we pick it up perhaps when everyone is stronger. But status quos are not status quos and people know that. They either get better – or more commonly – they actually get worse because they are left neglected. I fear that this status quo, over the next 10 or 11 months if there isn’t some very significant policy activity, will deteriorate into violence.

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Israeli TV Report: Poverty in Gaza Forces Children to Work in Trash Heaps

Sadie Goldman
Senior Policy Associate, Israel Policy Forum
Posted March 27, 2009 - 2:08pm

Yair Lapid's Friday news magazine program reported on the situation in Gaza's refugee camps and found, "Six and seven-year olds looking for discarded food and plastic bottles." A days work--12 hours--might bring them 5 Shekels (about a dollar), but they have no choice but to work to support their families.

Channel 2 reporter Suleiman al-Shafi talked to children between the ages of 6 and 12, who had to leave school to work in Gaza's trash heaps. One of those kids, Sa'id, told the Israeli camera crew: "We've become like the cats and dogs that dig in the trash. I want to go to school like the other kids. I want to go to Israel."

The report is in Hebrew and Arabic, but the images speak for themselves.

 

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