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Israel Policy Forum Announces its Next Chapter with Middle East Progress

By Israel Policy Forum
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:52pm

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 - 12:27pm

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 - 9:45am

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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Climate Change -- Capitol Hill Frosty For Israeli Prime Minister

By MJ Rosenberg
former Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 11:02am

It's not like the old days on Capitol Hill.  For the first time in memory, an Israeli prime minister went up to the Hill only to be bombarded with criticism.

In the past, even if the White House was cool (as it occasionally was prior to the advent of the neocons in 2001), the Israeli leader could go to the Hill and bask in the warmth.

Not this time. This time the White House was cool and the Hill (will the exception of Republican Eric Cantor) was cooler still.

On the Hill, A Welcome Change in Tone

By Nick Bunzl
Executive Director, Israel Policy Forum
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 3:56pm

Earlier this week, I went to Washington with a small IPF delegation on a series of visits with key members of Congress and the administration.

Not that we needed any reminding, but the contrast with the previous eight years is staggering - in style, content, substance, approach - and everybody is acutely aware of it.

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