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israel policy forum
Pro-Israel heavyweights push hard for two states
In a rare and sharp split with Israeli government policy, a group of Jewish community leaders want to get a proposal for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the next president’s desk.\n
Jewish leaders urge Abbas to make moderate stands public
A slate of 100 U.S. Jewish leaders wrote Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urging him to make public his opposition to a ‘right of return’ and his agreement to a demilitarized Palestinian state.
Suckers at the Casbah
Apparently, there are smart people out there who still believe it’s up to Israel to revive the dead Middle East peace process.
Jewish leaders urge Netanyahu to work with Obama on peace
More than one hundred U.S. Jewish leaders urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make clear \”Israel’s readiness to make painful territorial sacrifices for the sake of peace.\”
Pro-Israel figures join ad endorsing Hagel as defense secretary
A number of prominent pro-Israel Jewish figures joined an ad endorsing Chuck Hagel for the U.S. defense secretary post.
Revived Israel Policy Forum aims to rise above partisan fray as a pragmatic pro-Israel voice
When President Bill Clinton chose in January 2001 to unveil his Clinton Parameters for Arab-Israel peacemaking, he chose an Israel Policy Forum gala to do it. Four years later, then-Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought the same audience to announce then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s willingness to negotiate with the Palestinians.
Will Congress listen to liberal pro-Israel groups’ criticism of Gaza operation?
In the first sign of a post-election struggle to set the American Jewish community\’s Middle East agenda, a quartet of liberal pro-Israel groups is criticizing Jerusalem\’s decision to launch retaliatory attacks against Gaza.