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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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Rejecting Hate Speech Deserves Praise

By Nick Bunzl
Executive Director, Israel Policy Forum
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 3:27pm

Many in the American Jewish and pro-Israel communities are quick to point to elements of anti-Semitism in the Arab media as a major stumbling block to peacemaking efforts in the region.  But by the same measure, we should be applauding - with the same, if not more enthusiasm - those Arab voices that condemn such hate speech when it appears.  

Hussein Ibish, the American Task Force on Palestine's Senior Fellow should be praised for doing just that in his recent letter to the editor of the Khaleej Times, a Dubai-based English language newspaper.

What’s Being Talked About?

By The Pulse
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:16pm

In Salon, Glenn Greenwald has an interesting piece dissecting the anti-Semitism and anti-Israel discussion. And, Jeffrey Goldberg responds

Ben Smith over at Politico discusses the possibility of Chas Freeman, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, becoming the head of the National Intelligence Council

At The Plank, Michael Crowley talks about the future role of Dennis Ross in the Obama administration

New Anti-Semitism Or the Same Old Poison

By MJ Rosenberg, February 13, 2009

Anyone who believes that anti-Semitism is a thing of the past needs to consider the case of Bishop Richard Williamson, the cleric who denies that the Holocaust occurred and insists that the murder of six million Jews is "lies, lies, lies."

Williamson is a Jew-hater, pure and simple. Pope Benedict's support for him demonstrates that the current pontiff, who started out as a Hitler Youth, has a rather different attitude toward Jews than his revered predecessor, John Paul II, who started out in the Polish Resistance.

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