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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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The President and the Secretary

Jeremy Pressman
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Posted July 22, 2009 - 12:09pm

In Aaron David Miller's "The Much Too Promised Land," he suggests that a U.S. secretary of state with the strong and clear backing of the president is successful at Arab-Israeli peacemaking. Take George H. W. Bush (41) and James Baker. In contrast, when participants can see gaps between the president and secretary a la George W. Bush (43) and Colin Powell, little progress happens.

How will Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton be seen? Is there a gap? Does it matter for peacemaking? Too early to tell but over the next year we should have a much better idea. (Clinton herself sought to squelch the idea of distance here. The elbow effect?)

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