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January 12, 2012

Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer on 'Reviving the Peace Process'

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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.

Read the letter from CAP Senior VP Rudy deLeon

As we all know, right now is a critical time for the efforts to make peace. George Mitchell has been charged with leading a sustained and committed U.S. effort to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. He and the President face tough challenges in meeting this goal. As always, any serious American efforts to make progress have and will continue to run up against serious resistance. It is therefore cirtical to bring our forces together in order to build and hold a consensus for a two-state solution as a U.S. national security interest.

Israel Policy Forum and Middle East Progress (MEP), a Center for American Progress (CAP) project, share this world view and our goals and measures of success are also the same. Uniting our efforts under the banner of Middle East Progress would leverage our ability to support U.S. policy, bring pragmatic voices into the debate and develop public support for sustained U.S. peacemaking efforts in the region.

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