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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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Israel Policy Forum Statement on Housing Construction in East Jerusalem

July 20, 2009

Israel Policy Forum is greatly concerned by Israeli plans to build a new Jewish housing development in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Construction in areas that will be part of negotiations over the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel undermines efforts to achieve a lasting resolution of the conflict between Israel and  the Palestinians. It weakens the moderate Palestinian leaders at precisely the time when all efforts should be made to strengthen them.  

This plan is an unnecessary provocation of the Obama administration and the moderate Palestinian leadership designed to create "facts on the ground" in East Jerusalem in order to prevent an Israeli-Palestinian agreement, and to appease right-wing constituencies within Israel and elsewhere.

The Obama administration's demonstrated commitment to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  offers all the parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict a genuine, renewed opportunity.  As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clearly stated in her speech last week, "ending the conflict requires action on all sides ."

IPF therefore calls on members of Congress and American Jewish leaders to join the Obama administration in expressing their strong displeasure with plans like this that are bound to jeopardize  U.S. efforts to achieve a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian relations.  

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