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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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King Abdullah

Jordan's King Abdullah makes plea for two states

By The Pulse
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 8:40am

In an interview with Ha'aretz, King Abdullah II of Jordan made a case for achieving a two-state solution rather than continuing with the status quo.

The Red-Dead Project: Potential for Regional Peace

By The Pulse
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 11:10am

The recent progress on the Red-Dead Project, a water pipeline that would transfer water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, has the potential to foster regional peace between Israel and Jordan.

Itamar Eichner in Yedioth Ahronoth:

A breakthrough in the Red-Dead Project: Regional Development Minister Silvan Shalom has announced his success in forging an agreement between Israel, Jordan and the World Bank, which will provide a significant thrust for the project that has been stuck for years.

The Settlements: Obama's Demands and Netanyahu's Options

By Alon Ben Meir
Senior Fellow, NYU Center for Global Affairs
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 1:34pm

Amidst the whirlwind of activity surrounding President Obama's diplomatic efforts to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, one issue has stood out among others as particularly contentious. The renewed statements by President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the rest of the US administration on ending Israeli settlement activity has caused considerable discord on how to find common ground in this controversial issue.

What Happened in the Netanyahu-Abdullah meeting in Amman?

By The Pulse
Friday, May 15, 2009 - 8:56am

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took an unexpected trip to Amman to meet with Jordan's King Abdullah yesterday.

Israel Radio News reports:

What did Netanyahu and King Abdullah talk about yesterday?  Al-Arabiya reported last night King Abdullah relayed a message from Syrian President Bashar Assad saying that Damascus was ready to renew talks with Israel. Netanyahu, speaking about the Syrian track, told Channel One: "It depends on Syria. We don't know what is positions are, how serious it is and how genuine its intentions are."

Obama's Middle East Diplomacy Begins

By Sadie Goldman
Senior Policy Associate, Israel Policy Forum
Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:32am

In the course of a single day, the king of Jordan promoted a "57-state solution," in which every Arab and Muslim state from Indonesia to Mauritania would establish ties with Israel, the Israeli prime minister stood by the Egyptian president as they took turns declaring that Israel is ready and able to make peace with the Palestinians, and none other than the pope called for two "homelands," Israel and Palestine, coexisting one with the other.  

Obama's Middle East Diplomacy Begins

By Sadie Goldman, May 14, 2009

In the course of a single day, the king of Jordan promoted a "57-state solution," in which every Arab and Muslim state from Indonesia to Mauritania would establish ties with Israel, the Israeli prime minister stood by the Egyptian president as they took turns declaring that Israel is ready and able to make peace with the Palestinians, and none other than the pope called for two "homelands," Israel and Palestine, coexisting one with the other.  

President Obama and King Abdullah Talk Mideast Peace

By The Pulse
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 3:20pm

From the White House Blog:

Having discussed a wide range of issues concerning the Middle East during the meeting, from terrorism in the region, to Afghanistan, Iran, and the global economic crisis, the two leaders then gave remarks to the press. The President said King Abdullah "represents a modern approach to foreign policy-making in the Middle East," and King Abdullah in turn offered "warm thanks on behalf of many Arabs and Muslims who really had an outstanding response to the President's outreach to the Muslim Arab world." The bulk of the time, however, was spent on questions regarding Israel and Palestine:  

King Abdullah to Congress: Time to Push for Mideast Peace

By Israel Policy Forum, March 14, 2007

 

Speaking to a joint session of Congress last week about the need to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jordan's King Abdullah gave a speech notable not only for its content, but for the sense of urgency with which it was delivered.

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