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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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An Israeli View: For our own good

By Yossi Alpher
co-editor of bitterlemons.org; former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 2:04pm

Ever since the Israeli-Palestinian peace process began in earnest with the Oslo accords of 1993, the two sides' negotiations have been accompanied by Israeli settlement construction. Serious Israeli peace-seekers like Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert all continued building or at least expanding settlements even as they sought interim and final status arrangements with the PLO leadership. The latter, first Yasser Arafat and in recent years Mahmoud Abbas, proceeded with negotiations even as they protested settlement expansion.

Far-fetched - but not beyond imagination

By Gershon Baskin
Co-CEO, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, http://www.ipcri.org.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 9:44am

Welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu. Your recent statements indicating your intention to be a true partner to the Palestinians in advancing peace through negotiations is what the international community wants to hear. But more than wanting to hear positive statements on your intentions to make peace, the international community want to see progress on the ground.

Crafting an Israeli-Syrian Deal

By Israel Policy Forum, December 11, 2008

On December 4, the Israel Policy Forum held its annual symposium entitled, "A Blueprint for Leadership: How to Achieve Peace and Security in the Middle East." In one of the symposium's breakout sessions, Itamar Rabinovitch, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , and Murhaf Jouejati, professor at National Defense University, discuss the prospects for an Israeli-Syrian peace and the U.S. role in securing it. The session was introduced by Israel Policy Forum consultant, Tom Dine. It was moderated by Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Institution.

The Roadmap Is Back

By MJ Rosenberg, January 7, 2005

Issue # 208

Dennis Ross, who served as lead Mideast negotiator for close to a decade, is uncharacteristically optimistic about the chances for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in the not-so-distant future.

Bush's New Year's Resolution

By MJ Rosenberg, December 23, 2004

Issue # 207

War on Hamas


By Gilead Light and Steve Spiegel, March 25, 2004

 

The Bush Administration responded not once but twice to Israel's targeted assassination of Hamas spiritual leader and founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin on Monday. 

Bush's Plans

By MJ Rosenberg, January 19, 2001

Issue #28

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