Israel must decide on its future from a position of strength and not to be dragged along by events.

[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles examining the Israeli Peace Initiative.]

The Israeli Peace Initiative (IPI) is a nonpartisan movement whose 800 members come from left, center and left—and represent business, hi-tech, academic, security, diplomatic, civil society, and media communities.

We are the first to propose a regional initiative to end the Middle East conflict as a response to the Arab Peace Initiative. Our strategic goal is to convince the Israeli government to adopt our response and re-ignite Israeli-Palestinian-regional negotiations based on the Arab Peace Initiative.

We focus on three pillars: encouraging Israeli decision makers to re-engage in regional negotiations; convincing skeptic center-right Israelis to accept regional “end of conflict” package deal, and advocating Arab leaders and Arab civil society to reach out to the Israeli public.

The Israeli Peace Initiative (IPI) Group is a civil society movement offering a regional Israeli peace to end the conflict. Visit israelipeaceinitiative.com.