Wash Post: Recognizing Israel "As A Jewish State" Is A Brand New Israeli Demand

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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

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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MJ Rosenberg

former Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum

Posted June 24, 2009 - 2:35pm

Here is some good reporting on Prime Minuster Netanyahu's demand that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state.

It is, as I've written all along, a new demand designed only to torpedo negotiations.

From the fine piece by Howard Schneider:

"It has never been an Israeli demand," said Ron Pundak, a member of Israel's negotiating team in Norway and now director of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv. "When we negotiated Oslo, the issue of the characteristics of our state was never an issue."

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