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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

By Israel Policy Forum
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 4:52pm

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 - 1:27pm

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 - 10:45am

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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An Israeli View: For our own good

By Yossi Alpher
co-editor of bitterlemons.org; former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 3:04pm

Ever since the Israeli-Palestinian peace process began in earnest with the Oslo accords of 1993, the two sides' negotiations have been accompanied by Israeli settlement construction. Serious Israeli peace-seekers like Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert all continued building or at least expanding settlements even as they sought interim and final status arrangements with the PLO leadership. The latter, first Yasser Arafat and in recent years Mahmoud Abbas, proceeded with negotiations even as they protested settlement expansion.

Far-fetched - but not beyond imagination

By Gershon Baskin
Co-CEO, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, http://www.ipcri.org.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 10:44am

Welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu. Your recent statements indicating your intention to be a true partner to the Palestinians in advancing peace through negotiations is what the international community wants to hear. But more than wanting to hear positive statements on your intentions to make peace, the international community want to see progress on the ground.

Crafting an Israeli-Syrian Deal

By Israel Policy Forum, December 11, 2008

On December 4, the Israel Policy Forum held its annual symposium entitled, "A Blueprint for Leadership: How to Achieve Peace and Security in the Middle East." In one of the symposium's breakout sessions, Itamar Rabinovitch, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , and Murhaf Jouejati, professor at National Defense University, discuss the prospects for an Israeli-Syrian peace and the U.S. role in securing it. The session was introduced by Israel Policy Forum consultant, Tom Dine. It was moderated by Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Institution.

The Roadmap Is Back

By MJ Rosenberg, January 7, 2005

Issue # 208

Dennis Ross, who served as lead Mideast negotiator for close to a decade, is uncharacteristically optimistic about the chances for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in the not-so-distant future.

Bush's New Year's Resolution

By MJ Rosenberg, December 23, 2004

Issue # 207

War on Hamas


By Gilead Light and Steve Spiegel, March 25, 2004

 

The Bush Administration responded not once but twice to Israel's targeted assassination of Hamas spiritual leader and founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin on Monday. 

Bush's Plans

By MJ Rosenberg, January 19, 2001

Issue #28

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