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January 21, 2012

We will not stand for this

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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.

Israel Policy Forum Statement on Settlement Expansion in Givat Habrecha

June 23, 2009

Israel Policy Forum's Executive Director Nick Bunzl released the following statement today:

Israel Policy Forum is greatly concerned by reports from Israel that Defense Minister Barak recently authorized the submission of a plan for construction of 300 housing units in the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Givat Habrecha. If these reports are accurate, this construction would clearly flaunt the Obama administration's call that "settlement expansion cease." IPF agrees completely with President Obama's statement during his Cairo speech that settlement expansion "undermines efforts to achieve peace." It weakens the moderate Palestinian leaders at precisely the time when all efforts should be made to strengthen them.

Furthermore, if this plan exists, it would add housing to an outpost that successive Israeli governments have promised to dismantle.

IPF therefore calls on the Obama administration to express its displeasure with plans like this that are bound to jeopardize the efforts of the President to achieve a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian relations. The administration must continue to insist that both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict meet their respective obligations. That is an essential step leading to an end to the conflict and to a secure state of Israel peacefully existing alongside a viable Palestinian state.

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