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Please note that IPF's phone number has changed. We can now be reached at 212-354-1812. 

We will not stand for this

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)

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.

Congress

Climate Change -- Capitol Hill Frosty For Israeli Prime Minister

former Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum

It's not like the old days on Capitol Hill.  For the first time in memory, an Israeli prime minister went up to the Hill only to be bombarded with criticism.

In the past, even if the White House was cool (as it occasionally was prior to the advent of the neocons in 2001), the Israeli leader could go to the Hill and bask in the warmth.

Not this time. This time the White House was cool and the Hill (will the exception of Republican Eric Cantor) was cooler still.

On the Hill, A Welcome Change in Tone

Executive Director, Israel Policy Forum

Earlier this week, I went to Washington with a small IPF delegation on a series of visits with key members of Congress and the administration.

Not that we needed any reminding, but the contrast with the previous eight years is staggering - in style, content, substance, approach - and everybody is acutely aware of it.