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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

By Israel Policy Forum
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:52pm

Dear Friends and Supporters of Israel Policy Forum:

On behalf of Israel Policy Forum (IPF), including our President Peter Joseph and Chair Larry Zicklin, I am pleased to inform you that IPF is embarking on its next chapter. 

2010 Must Be Showtime for Mideast Peace

By David Halperin
Assistant Director, IPF - NY
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:27pm

As 2009 draws to a close, we are bombarded by the annual litany of commentary features recapping the year in Hollywood movies to the year in international conflict, and everything in between.

When it comes to the Middle East peace process, current conventional wisdom suggests the 2009 recap might go something like this: 

US-Iran Negotiations: Simulation Exercise at INSS

By Institute for National Security Studies
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 9:45am

Ephraim Asculai, Emily B. Landau, and Tamar Malz-Ginzburg

INSS Insight No. 154, December 29, 2009

Despite the tendency to denote any simulation exercise on security issues a "war game," the recent simulation designed and held at INSS did not focus on the option of a military attack. Rather, it developed the scenario of a bilateral US-Iranian negotiation over Iran's nuclear program.

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IPFFriday Commentary

Netanyahu: Seeking Salvation

By MJ Rosenberg, July 30, 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem. The Obama administration is insisting on a settlements freeze and the Israeli prime minister, who is resisting such demands, is not getting the support he might have expected from the American pro-Israel community. Usually, when an American president makes any sort of demand on Jerusalem, pro-Israel (primarily Jewish) organizations compel Congress to pressure the president to cease and desist. It usually works, but not this time.

IPFFocus Analysis

2010 Must Be Showtime for Mideast Peace

By David Halperin, December 30, 2009

As 2009 draws to a close, we are bombarded by the annual litany of commentary features recapping the year in Hollywood movies to the year in international conflict, and everything in between.

When it comes to the Middle East peace process, current conventional wisdom suggests the 2009 recap might go something like this: 

Policy Papers

President Obama’s “Israel problem” is not one of public relations, but of inadequate success

November 23, 2009

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

President Obama’s “Israel problem” is not one of public relations, but of inadequate success.  This was the key conclusion arrived at by a distinguished group of some twenty former and current Israeli officials, analysts and academics during an in-depth, off-the-record Roundtable discussion convened by Israel Policy Forum (IPF) in Tel Aviv on October 25, 2009.  This discussion revealed that Israelis view America’s current policy vis-à-vis the peace process as outdated, almost fossilized in the year 2000; limited in scope, imagination, subtlety, and consistency. 

IPF Interviews

Interview with Dr. Shlomo Fischer: Who are the settlers and what do they want?

December 16, 2009

On Wednesday, December 16th, Dr. Steven L. Spiegel moderated a discussion with Dr. Shlomo Fischer on the issue of settlements in Israel and the various components of the settler movement in light of Prime Minister Netanyahu's announcement of a ten month settlement freeze and the public struggle with Hesder Yeshivas regarding carrying out orders in the West Bank.

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