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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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Right of Reply: We're not Israel Bashers

Israel Policy Forum
Posted June 29, 2009 - 5:02pm

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." Israel Policy Forum welcomes these noteworthy steps forward. These are positions IPF has advocated since its founding with the support and encouragement of Yitzhak Rabin in 1993.

Yet, for promoting these positions, Isi Leibler labeled Israel Policy Forum a "Bogus 'Zionist' Israel-basher" in his column published on June 10, a few days before the prime minister's speech.

Read it here.

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Editorial is impossibly dishonest

Submitted by BurningChrome on June 29, 2009 - 11:59pm.
Nick Bunzl wrote "Another is his (Netanyahu) insistence on adding an unnecessary condition for the successful conclusion of an agreement with the Palestinians - their recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. After 61 years of independence as the homeland for the Jewish people, and with the "unbreakable" support of the US, recently reiterated by Obama in Cairo, Israel should not need others to define it."
 
Nick Bunzl is not just being disingenuous, it is nothing less than fraud when put forward by someone who has all to much knowledge of the Israel Arab conflict.
 
It is a just demand  for nothing less or more than ACCEPTANCE and a RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL as a SOVEREIGN STATE.  This is the core of the conflict.
 
It is NOT a demand that anyone define Israel. It is the exact opposite. It is that Israel as a sovereign state is free to define itself and that those who were previously enemies accept Israel's legitimacy with all that entails. Mr. Bunzl absolutely knows this. Mr. Bunzl pretending otherwise is simply nothing less than fraud.
 
The core of this conflict is the assertion that (Israel) Jews have equal rights. Mr Bunzl knows this.
The conflict is not about borders or occupation as these are all subsequent events to the assertion of Jews to equality, self determination and the establishment of the state of Israel.
 
Mr. Bunzl knows full well that in the history of Islamic Middle East Jews do not have rights. They are second class residents. Jewish communities that used to exist in the Arab world only existed at the sole discretion and whim of local rulers.
 
Again Mr. Bunzl knows full well this is why there are no Jewish communities anymore.  More than 1 Million Jews were summarily stripped of citizenship, as well as all property and possessions, thruout the Arab world upon their independence.
 
This started before Israel was established, with 'Nuremberg style' laws precluding Jews (and often other non Muslim\Arab minorities)  from working as Judges or civil servants etc.
 
Of course Mr. Bunzl knows all of this, I point this out for the less knowledgeable readers.
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