IPF Leadership Mission to Israel and the West Bank

Last week, IPF Executive Director Nick Bunzl and President Peter Joseph returned from a leadership mission to Israel and the West Bank. They spent 3 days in high-level meetings in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the West Bank. To read their remarks, click here.

Interview with Prof. David Menashri: An Israeli Perspective on Iran's Elections

Earlier today, Dr. Steven Spiegel interviewed Professor David Menashri, an Israeli expert on Iran. Menashri is the Director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University and his main field of academic research is the history and politics of modern Iran, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf and the history of education in the Muslim world.

His discussion focused on the implications of the Iranian unrest on Israel, American foreign policy and Iran's nuclear development.

Right of Reply: We're not Israel Bashers

In a June 29th op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, IPF Executive Director Nick Bunzl responded to criticism of President Obama's Mideast agenda and reaffirmed the necessity and importance of a two-state solution and the important steps that Obama has been taking in this regard.

In his speech at Bar-Ilan University, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accepted a "Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state" and called for "peace negotiations" with the Palestinian Authority to begin "immediately."