Yoffie: IPF's Centrist Principles Should Unite Jews, Both Parties
Among American Jews, there are some reasonable voices promoting moderation, sanity and good sense on these questions. The Israel Policy Forum, for example, has just issued a Statement of Principles...
View ArticleOn Netanyahu’s Offer to Negotiate Settlement Blocs
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly offered to negotiate with the Palestinians regarding the contours of the settlement blocs. The Palestinians have refused the offer. Here are five thoughts...
View ArticleNetanyahu Acknowledges API; But Initiative Needed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acknowledgement that there are “positive aspects” to the Arab Peace Initiative is a step in the right direction. read more
View ArticleDiaspora Jews Are Not Israel’s ATM
By Michael J. Koplow The eminent Israeli political scientist Shlomo Avineri published a long essay in Ha'aretz last week arguing that the failure of Oslo can be attributed to the fact that Israel views...
View ArticleMissing Yitzhak Rabin: Twenty Years After His Assassination
Israel Policy Forum is dedicating this week to memories and retrospectives of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination. Rabin is not only a towering figure...
View ArticleEl Capitán
Israel Policy Forum is dedicating this week to memories and retrospectives of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination. Rabin is not only a towering figure...
View ArticleWhat Yitzhak Rabin Understood About Israel’s Future
Israel Policy Forum is dedicating this week to memories and retrospectives of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination. Rabin is not only a towering figure...
View ArticleHow Rabin’s Murder Changed my Life
Israel Policy Forum is dedicating this week to memories and retrospectives of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination. Rabin is not only a towering figure...
View ArticleIs Shunning Netanyahu Actually Progressive?
By Michael J. Koplow Bibi Netanyahu is speaking before an audience at the Center for American Progress tomorrow afternoon, and many progressives are not happy about it. read more
View ArticleThe Odd and Not So Odd Timing Of Israeli-Turkish Reconciliation
By Michael J. Koplow This is starting to feel like Groundhog Day. In March 2013, I wrote an article for Foreign Affairs explaining the timing behind Israel and Turkey agreeing to reconcile, and here I...
View ArticleA Two-State Solution: Israel Should Take The Lead
This op-ed was published in Newsweek. The Israeli government has been confronted by a recent spate of speeches and statements by American officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry and...
View ArticleTruth in Advertising
There has been much sound and fury over the past couple of weeks over labeling; more specifically, over the labeling rules for goods coming into the United States that are produced in the West Bank....
View ArticleU.S. Jewish Leadership Understands Mideast Reality
This op-ed was published in The New York Jewish Week. In responding to Gary Rosenblatt’s column (“Frustration with Israel is Growing Here at Home,” Jan. 8), Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor accuses...
View ArticleThe Perfect and the Good
Labor leader Buji Herzog did something unusual this week for a man who leads Israel’s traditionally largest party on the left. He got the party of Yitzhak Rabin and Oslo, of Ehud Barak and Camp David,...
View ArticleHow To Lose Friends And Not Influence Anyone
Israel in the last week has presented two classic case studies on strategic blundering and on precisely how not to conduct a successful foreign policy. One of these cases resulted in little more than...
View ArticleIs It Wrong To Want A Jewish Mayor Of Jerusalem?
When Labor leader Buji Herzog rolled out his unilateral disengagement plan a couple of weeks ago – a plan that I think can be a positive step if it incorporates a number of critical components – he...
View ArticleIPF Briefing with Eran Halperin
Event Date Feb 29, 2016 On Monday, February 29th, IPF will host a conference call with Eran Halperin, a social-psychologist who has become a sought-after advisor for those seeking to promote effective...
View ArticleRecording Now Available - Briefing with Eran Halperin
interview: Social-Psychologist at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya News Type2 Briefings
View ArticleWelcome to Matzav
Welcome to Matzav, a collaborative blog hosted by the Israel Policy Forum. Matzav – which means “situation” in Hebrew and is often used as a shorthand to describe the simultaneous hope and despair,...
View ArticleOptimism beyond the Veil of Ignorance
Optimism is such a wonderful and promising attitude in life. I couldn’t help but appreciate this as my family and I found ourselves trekking down the icy South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon,...
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