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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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Shaul Arieli

Colonel (res.) Shaul Arieli is senior consultant to the Economic Cooperation Foundation and is a prominent expert on the demarcation of the future Israeli-Palestinian border and the route of the separation barrier. He has taken a lead role in efforts to renew Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and to ensure that Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians balance security and humanitarian considerations. As a representative of the Council for Peace and Security, he has presented expert opinions in legal proceedings relating to the route of the separation barrier, which have earned him the title Friend of the Court.

Col. Arieli was previously head of the Peace Administration in the Barak government, and later became one of the originators of the Geneva Initiative. Earlier, he served for two years as Deputy Military Attaché to the Defense Minister. In 1995 -1997, he was head of the Interim Agreement Administration. He held a wide range of command posts in the IDF, including Military Commander of the Gaza Strip.

The co-author of "The Wall of Folly," he has published four books as well as numerous articles, opinion pieces and papers dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian political process. 

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