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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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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem

By Meron Rapoport
Independent Israeli journalist and writer
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 11:41am

Jerusalem does not have good public relations. In the last few months, since President Obama raised his demand to freeze the settlements, attention has been directed towards the West Bank - to the construction in the illegal outposts, the expansion of settlements and the dismantling of roadblocks. Jerusalem almost never appears on the radar screen, neither in Israel nor anywhere else in the world.

USIP's Lasensky: US- Israel tension "totally overblown"

By David Halperin
Program Director / Policy Analyst
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 11:00am

Scott Lasensky, the Senior Research Associate of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the United States Institute of Peace, co-authored "Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace" last year with former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer.  Their book includes a detailed account of previous US peacemaking efforts, a collection of documents and primary sources related to the Mideast peace process, and recommendations for how the US administration following the Bush II White House should engage in Arab-Israeli diplomacy. 

More than 7 months into the Obama administration, I wanted to get Lasensky's take on the state of peacemaking efforts. Below are his responses to a few of my questions:

The Best Hope–Still?

By Jeremy Pressman
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 11:16am

Despite large obstacles, Obama is right to push the two-state solution 

A core element of President Barack Obama's much-anticipated speech in Cairo was an old idea: a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As expected, he argued strongly on its behalf, saying it "is in Israel's interest, Palestine's interest, America's interest, and the world's interest." He pledged to "personally pursue this outcome with all the patience and dedication that the task requires."

Interview with Gilead Sher: A very typical first meeting

By The Pulse
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 9:43am

Earlier today, The Pulse interviewed Gilead Sher, former Chief of Staff and Policy Coordinator for Israel's Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak.

Pulse: How do you think the meeting went this week between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu?

Sher: Diplomatically speaking, it was OK.  It was polite, well organized and nothing unexpected occurred. It was very typical of first meetings between a newly elected Prime Minister and the President of the United States.  But in terms of substance the differences and divergences are quite evident.  

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