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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

By Israel Policy Forum
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:52pm

Dear Friends and Supporters of Israel Policy Forum:

On behalf of Israel Policy Forum (IPF), including our President Peter Joseph and Chair Larry Zicklin, I am pleased to inform you that IPF is embarking on its next chapter. 

2010 Must Be Showtime for Mideast Peace

By David Halperin
Assistant Director, IPF - NY
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:27pm

As 2009 draws to a close, we are bombarded by the annual litany of commentary features recapping the year in Hollywood movies to the year in international conflict, and everything in between.

When it comes to the Middle East peace process, current conventional wisdom suggests the 2009 recap might go something like this: 

US-Iran Negotiations: Simulation Exercise at INSS

By Institute for National Security Studies
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 9:45am

Ephraim Asculai, Emily B. Landau, and Tamar Malz-Ginzburg

INSS Insight No. 154, December 29, 2009

Despite the tendency to denote any simulation exercise on security issues a "war game," the recent simulation designed and held at INSS did not focus on the option of a military attack. Rather, it developed the scenario of a bilateral US-Iranian negotiation over Iran's nuclear program.

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Settlements: Moshe Yaroni On The Myth Of Natural Growth

MJ Rosenberg
former Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum
Posted June 24, 2009 - 5:51pm

Moshe Yaroni is doing the best writing I've seen lately on President Obama's call for a settlement freeze.

In this piece in Jewcy, Dr. Yaroni debunks the whole natural increase myth (the argument that a settlement freeze will prevent settler families from having kids) and explains why a freeze is worth the political capital it will cost Obama to achieve it.

It is worth a read. Obama is under pressure from the Likudniks in Israel and the neocons here. Here are the facts.

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pro-peace family trips to Israel?

Submitted by DrSteveB on June 24, 2009 - 8:32pm.

A little off topic, but unsure of how else to reach you:

Do you know of any, as J-Street would put it, pro-Israel/pro-Peace group tours to Israel?  

I am your typical btvshalom/J-street/IPF supporting American Jew... going back to Friends of Peace Now and New Jewish Agenda in the 1980s.

The oldtime/mainline American Jewish organizations, AJC, etc. have always done a great job of showing American Jews around Israel with packaged tours. Many synagogues sponsor trips.

And of course there is Birthright. Oy!  

I am planning a family trip in late 2009 or 2010, timed to my daughter Bat Mitzvah... any suggestions for organizations/groups/packages that have a balanced/pro-real-peace flavor?   If not, there might be a market in it for somebody. 

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