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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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Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr.

Ambassador Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr. sits on the U.S. Advisory Council of Israel Policy Forum.  He is also former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain.

Ambassador Pelletreau entered the Foreign Service in 1962. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs on February 18, 1994. Prior to his most recent position, Ambassador Pelletreau had served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Arab Republic of Egypt from July 31, 1991.

Before that, he was Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia from 1987 to 1991. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1985-1987. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the Department of State, 1983-1985; Country Director for Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the Department of State, 1981-1982; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia at the Pentagon, 1980-1981. In addition, he was Ambassador to the State of Bahrain, 1979-1980; and Deputy Chief of Mission in Damascus, Syria, 1975-1978. Ambassador Pelletreau was a Political Officer in Algiers, Algeria, 1973-1975; and served in several capacities in Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania and Morocco.

Ambassador Pelletreau graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1957) and Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1961). He was born July 9, 1935 in Patchogue, New York. He served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1957- 1958. He is married and has three children.

 

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