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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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Scott Lasensky

Scott Lasensky is a senior research associate at the United States Institute for Peace's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. He is the author most recently of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, co-authored with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer.

He focuses on issues relating to the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. He has lectured and written extensively on the Arab-Israeli conflict and America's role in the Middle East. He is also the director of USIP's Iraq and Its Neighbors project.

Lasensky, an adjunct assistant professor of government at the University of Maryland, has also taught at Georgetown and Mount Holyoke, and served as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the Brookings Institution. He is a frequent commentator on BBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and other major media outlets, and has been published in Middle East Journal, Political Science Quarterly, Jerusalem Post, A-Sharq Al-Awsat, Beirut Daily Star, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and Middle East Review of International Affairs, among other publications. He is a recipient of the Yitzhak Rabin-Shimon Peres Peace Award from Tel Aviv University (1999).

Lasensky is a graduate of UCLA and earned his Ph.D. in international relations from Brandeis University.

He has lectured and written extensively on the Arab-Israeli conflict and America's role in the Middle East, and is the author of the forthcoming Paying for Peace: America, the Middle East Peace Process and the Limits of Foreign Aid. In January 2005, he served as an International Election Observer to the Palestinian presidential elections -- as part of the National Democratic Institute/Carter Center mission.

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