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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

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

Assistant Director, IPF - NY

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

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.

Improving the Prospects for Obama's Success: A Report from an IPF Roundtable in Tel Aviv

On Monday, November 23rd Professor Steven L. Spiegel moderated a discussion with Former Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh and Brig. Gen. (ret.) Shlomo Brom, who both participated in IPF's most recent Roundtable Discussion of analysts, academics and former policy makers. The paper released as a result of this Roundtable is titled "President Obama’s 'Israel problem' is not one of public relations, but of inadequate success" and can be found here.