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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's Arab Citizens and the State: Is the Relationship Changing?

By Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu
Co-Executive Director, The Abraham Fund Initiatives
Monday, May 11, 2009 - 2:37pm
Policy Developments During Olmert's Term and Prospects for the New Government

Regardless of how one views the legacy of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert or his government, it is clear that significant developments in government policy vis-à-vis Israel's Palestinian-Arab citizens occurred in the course of his term. One can examine policy from two general perspectives. The first is a policy de jure perspective, comprised of statements, rhetoric, plans and programs; the second focuses on policy de facto, which is measured by real actions (and can therefore be measured only in retrospect). While examining Olmert's policy through the prism of both perspectives, we can see that his term between February 2006 and early 2009 can be described as positive. Here are a few examples to support this assessment.

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