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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 Prime Minister Netanyahu`s Decision to Freeze Construction in East Jerusalem

July 30, 2009

Israel Policy Forum (IPF) "hailed" reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided to freeze a project to construct some 900 apartments in East Jerusalem, a day after he held talks with U.S. Special Envoy Mitchell.

"This decision, combined with Israel's reported expansion of the types of building material it will allow into Gaza are important steps by the Israeli government that can ease the path leading to  successful negotiations over the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel," said IPF Executive Director Nick Bunzl in a statement released today.  

"These two decisions offer evidence that the Obama administration's demonstrated commitment to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can improve facts on the ground while offering all the parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict a genuine, renewed opportunity for peace and stability in the region," Bunzl said. 

"These actions, though significant, are symbolic and require responsive and additional steps by all the parties," IPF's statement continued.  "The Egyptians have been playing important mediating roles. It is time for the Palestinian Authority, for example, to stop incitement and Arab states to make symbolic gestures toward Israel that will advance President Obama's efforts."

"It is precisely at a time when progress toward resolving the conflict is being made that the Obama administration's approach should be backed by parties in and out of the region. IPF therefore calls on members of Congress and the American Jewish community to vigorously express their support for these policies," Bunzl declared. "That is how they can sustain the efforts to achieve a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian relations."

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