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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)

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.

Steven L. Spiegel

Dr. Steven L. Spiegel is a National Scholar at Israel Policy Forum and is a Professor of Political Science at UCLA.  He is an expert on American foreign policy in the Middle East. He is the director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA and of Track II Middle East programs at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.  He hosts bi-weekly conference call briefings through IPF and he is responsible for "IPF Focus."

He has authored over 100 books, articles and essays including The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict and World Politics in a New Era.  He was a recipient of the Karpf Peace Prize in 1995.

He has been published in The New Republic, Middle East Quarterly, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and many others.

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