BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,159, September 24, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Much like the Oslo illusion, which posited that territorial concessions to the PLO would bring about peace with the Palestinians, the hope that economic easing in the Gaza Strip …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,134, August 24, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The waning of American influence in the Middle East not only indicates that the world superpower is in retreat, and perhaps even in its twilight—but that Israel’s fate is …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,119, August 10, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Internal violence within the Israeli Arab community is not the result of socioeconomic deprivation. Quite the reverse, in fact.
Members of the new Israeli government are finding it …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,118, August 9, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Even if Hezbollah is responsible for the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas is culpable for the security deterioration in southern Lebanon due to its efforts to expand …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,111, August 2, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent rocket fire from Lebanon into Israeli territory connects with Hamas’s overall strategy of expanding the scope of the confrontation between itself and Israel that sharpened during the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,104, July 25, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In contrast to the Trump administration’s tough stance on Iran, President Joe Biden’s willingness to negotiate with and reach a weak agreement with Iran undermines the strategic rationale for …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,097, July 16, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Even if the improving ties between Jordan and Israel yield a certain diplomatic benefit for Israel, they may indicate a worrisome direction in terms of Israel’s state interests.
An …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,067, June 8, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The May riots raise essential questions about the fate of the paradigm that formed the basis of Jewish-Arab relations in Israel over the past decade.
The Jewish public and …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,048, May 25, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel ended the war in Gaza with impressive tactical achievements but in a position of great strategic inferiority. The outcome recalls America’s quantitative achievements in the Vietnam War alongside …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,030, May 14, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel must replace its containment policy vis-à-vis Hamas with a decisive strategy aimed at routing the Islamist terror group.
Ever since Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in …
