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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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Engaging the Arab States

Morocco as a Potential Model

By The Pulse
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 5:12pm
by David Avital and David Halperin - March 18, 2011

Seizing this moment requires the United States to work with Morocco on a blueprint for systematic political and economic reforms that proactively respond to the region’s spreading unrest. A U.S. effort to help Morocco achieve a balance between these reforms and reverence for its own history and religious tradition would be a crucial symbol for the developing Middle East — and its growing ties with the West.

The Jordanian Predicament

By Shaul Arieli
Colonel (res.), former head of the Peace Administration for Ehud Barak, one of the originators of the Geneva Initiative, representative of the Council for Peace and Security
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 9:31am

At the end of the War of Independence – the outcome of the Arab rejection of the Partition Plan – 600,000 Palestinians became refugees in Arab states, especially Jordan. Until 1988, the Palestinians were not included in the global agenda and negotiations on the future of the West Bank were carried out directly between Israel and Jordan. Many Israeli political leaders at the time regarded Jordan as the Palestinian homeland, and cited the growing Palestinian population there as validation of this view.

Clinton clarifies settlement stance

By The Pulse
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 11:10am

In the final stop on her visit to the Middle East and Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday. After commenting on her statement in Jerusalem over the weekend that the U.S. considered Israel's movement on settlements "unprecedented," she assured Arab leaders that the Obama administration is not reneging on demands to halt settlement building.

Obama: Peace between Israel and Jordan shows peace always possible

By The Pulse
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 9:54am

Monday marked the 15 year anniversary of the signing of the peace accord between Israel and Jordan. President Obama marked the milestone, saying it proves that peace is always possible.

The White House released the following statement:

Report of Israel-Iran secret meeting

By The Pulse
Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 9:05am

According to the Israel Atomic Energy Commision Spokesperson Yael Doron, Israeli and Iranian representatives participated in a nuclear non-proliferation conference in Egypt this past September. Iran has denied that the meeting took place; however Egypt's foreign ministry confirmed the report.

Ha'aretz reports:

An Israeli View: Damage survey

By Yossi Alpher
co-editor of bitterlemons.org; former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 9:59am

In the course of the past two weeks, we have witnessed three key developments in Palestinian-Israeli relations.

One is, at least initially, an internal Palestinian and Arab issue: apparent progress in Egypt's efforts to bring about Fateh-Hamas rapprochement, create some form of unity government and set a date for Palestinian elections. If this prolonged initiative finally reaches fruition in the days ahead, it could have far-reaching ramifications for efforts to launch a new peace process between Israelis and Palestinians and for Israeli-Palestinian relations in general. One way or another, this dynamic will have to be revisited in the weeks ahead.

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.

Economic Self-Interest for Peace

By Edgar Bronfman
Philanthropist
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 11:11am
It has become accepted wisdom that the economic development of the Palestinian Authority (PA) is a necessary precursor to a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After all, under present economic conditions, if the Palestinians were to exchange the reality of occupation for one of statehood, then nothing tangible will have changed. If nothing changes in the day-to-day lives of the Palestinians, then the conflict will go on.

Building Momentum for Mid-East Peace: Bring Back the Multilaterals

By Steven L. Spiegel and Michael D. Yaffe
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 11:29am
The first phase of the Obama administration's efforts at progress on the Arab-Israeli dispute is over, and let's be honest: it's not what the administration hoped would happen when it embarked on its campaign to bring the parties to the table. In a prelude to negotiations, the Israelis were supposed to freeze settlements, but the Netanyahu government only talked privately about going part of the way. The Palestinians were to increase security measures to prevent violence against Israel and decrease incitement.

Israel and the Gulf States: A Thaw in Relations?

By Yoel Guzansky
Senior Researcher at The Institute for National Security Studies
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 9:58am

INSS Insight No. 133, September 29, 2009

As part of the attempt to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian discussions, the American administration has in recent months expended significant effort on persuading different Arab nations, headed by the Gulf states, to make certain gestures towards Israel. While in geopolitical terms the Arab-Israeli arena and the Persian Gulf arena are separate, the Persian Gulf states are nonetheless directly or indirectly involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict and are influenced by Israeli-Palestinian relations.

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