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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

By Israel Policy Forum
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:52pm

Dear Friends and Supporters of Israel Policy Forum:

On behalf of Israel Policy Forum (IPF), including our President Peter Joseph and Chair Larry Zicklin, I am pleased to inform you that IPF is embarking on its next chapter. 

2010 Must Be Showtime for Mideast Peace

By David Halperin
Assistant Director, IPF - NY
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:27pm

As 2009 draws to a close, we are bombarded by the annual litany of commentary features recapping the year in Hollywood movies to the year in international conflict, and everything in between.

When it comes to the Middle East peace process, current conventional wisdom suggests the 2009 recap might go something like this: 

US-Iran Negotiations: Simulation Exercise at INSS

By Institute for National Security Studies
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 9:45am

Ephraim Asculai, Emily B. Landau, and Tamar Malz-Ginzburg

INSS Insight No. 154, December 29, 2009

Despite the tendency to denote any simulation exercise on security issues a "war game," the recent simulation designed and held at INSS did not focus on the option of a military attack. Rather, it developed the scenario of a bilateral US-Iranian negotiation over Iran's nuclear program.

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Look Who's Coming To Dinner

By David A. Harris
President, National Jewish Democratic Council
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 3:10pm

This piece was originally published on The Hufffington Post.

Wait - Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is coming to the Ramadan dinner hosted tonight by President Barack Obama?

After reading this in Talking Points Memo, I paused to make sure I read it right.

Two more years for two states?

By David Halperin
Assistant Director, IPF - NY
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:35pm

Recent reports and developments suggest that the Obama administration--and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank--may see the "window of opportunity" for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shutting in two years, in 2011.

A Palestinian View: The stick-and-stick approach has failed

By Ghassan Khatib
Co-editor, bitterlemons.org & former Palestinian Authority Minister of Planning and Labor
Monday, July 6, 2009 - 1:51pm

As attempts to revive a political process between Palestinians and Israelis gather steam, it is useful to look at past, failed attempts to draw lessons. One conclusion that can be reached is that not only should Hamas be part of a political process; any such process will not be successful without the movement.

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