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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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IPF Statement On Obama-Netanyahu Meeting

May 19, 2009

NEW YORK, May 18 -- Israel Policy Forum (IPF) issued the following statement following today's meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu:

Israel Policy Forum welcomes President Obama's strong reaffirmation of his commitment to "achieve a two-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians are living side by side in peace and security."

IPF believes that it is the best achievable means of ensuring Israel's survival as a Jewish state and a democracy.  As the President stated again today, a two-state solution is "in the interests not only of the Palestinians but also the Israelis and the United States and the international community."

IPF further commends President Obama for noting that "all the parties involved have to take seriously obligations that they've previously agreed to," mentioning both the road map and Annapolis, and for stating that "settlements have to be stopped." 

As the President also pointed out today, Prime Minister Netanyahu "has a historic opportunity to get a serious movement on this issue during his tenure." IPF hopes that the Prime Minister will seize this opportunity to take advantage of a President who declares: "The United States is going to do everything we can to be constructive, effective partners in this process."

Though Messrs. Obama and Netanyahu have met before, today's meeting was their first as leaders of their respective countries. It is critically important that the two leaders develop a trust in one another, but it will not be possible to gauge whether today's session was successful until we see whether or not the peace process is moving forward successfully.

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