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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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Dan Meridor

Israeli officials: Possibility of relaunching negotiations soon

By The Pulse
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 10:21am

Israeli Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor suggested yesterday that there is a strong possibility that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will relaunch negotiations soon.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

A Strategic Necessity

By Alon Ben Meir
Senior Fellow, NYU Center for Global Affairs
Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:27pm

The Obama administration's push for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace may have a much stronger likelihood of succeeding this time around because of the prevailing political and security dynamics. For an agreement to occur however, Israel must concede the inevitable by relinquishing territories captured in the 1967 war, and the United States must provide a new security umbrella to its regional allies. This would lead not only to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace, but it could seriously impede Iran's ambitions for regional hegemony with nuclear weapon capabilities.

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