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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

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.

A New Fatah?

By David Halperin

Assistant Director, IPF - NY

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 2:28pm

The first Fatah conference in twenty years concluded this week, with many analysts claiming it has bolstered the position of younger Palestinian leaders untainted by corruption, as well as that of President Mahmoud Abbas, the party's chairman.

Over 2,000 delegates attended the closed-door conference that was billed as an opportunity for the "young guard" of Palestinian leaders to replace veteran associates of the late Fatah leader Yasser Arafat.

A Palestinian View: Developing apart

By Ghassan Khatib

Co-editor, bitterlemons.org & former Palestinian Authority Minister of Planning and Labor

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 12:33pm

There are several reasons to believe that the chance of success for the Palestinian unity dialogue now is very small, if not non-existent.

The Egyptian-led mediation effort has now seen three rounds of meetings, sometimes involving all 13 Palestinian factions, sometimes between only the two main rivals, Fateh and Hamas. None has been successful. It can be argued that the division in the Palestinian polity that resulted from the violent competition between Fateh and Hamas for power has reached an irreversible point, at least in the short and medium terms.