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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

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

Assistant Director, IPF - NY

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

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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Top Foreign Policy Heavies Urge Obama To Engage With Hamas

ROGER COHEN IN TODAY'S TIMES

It becomes more clear every day that the Gaza war was a disaster for Israel.  Obviously, it was a humanitarian disaster.

But, beyond that, it failed at its key objective.  Hamas was not destroyed.  In fact, it has gained international acceptance since the war.

And now top American foreign policy types are weighing in.  They are telling President Obama in a letter, and soon in a meeting, that it is time to abandon the previous administration's failed policies.

Roger Cohen, the New York Times columnist, who is doing the best writing these days about the Middle East tells all about it here.  It's changing.  And the new government in Israel will have no choice but to go along. 

 

 

 

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