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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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Steven L. Spiegel

Dr. Steven L. Spiegel is a National Scholar at Israel Policy Forum and is a Professor of Political Science at UCLA.  He is an expert on American foreign policy in the Middle East. He is the director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA and of Track II Middle East programs at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.  He hosts bi-weekly conference call briefings through IPF and he is responsible for "IPF Focus."

He has authored over 100 books, articles and essays including The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict and World Politics in a New Era.  He was a recipient of the Karpf Peace Prize in 1995.

He has been published in The New Republic, Middle East Quarterly, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and many others.

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