BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,151, September 12, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Unlike Israel’s earlier peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the Abraham Accords involved Arab countries that do not border Israel, have never fought it on the battlefield, and are …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,028, May 14, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the first American politician to openly charge Iran with providing support for al-Qaeda, though the matter was not news to Congress. A …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,981, March 30, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Deep-rooted and persistent antisemitism is one of the central reasons for the Arab world’s lack of innovation and development relative to Israel and the Western world. The problem …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,966, March 15, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Biden administration’s targeting of the US’s longstanding alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia in order to placate Iran is not only immoral but disastrously counterproductive.
The Islamic Republic …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,750, September 16, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US-brokered Israel-UAE normalization agreement was swiftly followed by a similar agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, as well as an Israel-Bahrain agreement. The Trump administration has momentum as it …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,699, August 19, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It took the Arab world 41 years to produce another Sadat. The UAE’s brave soldier and strongman prince Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan proved his diplomatic vision by …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,660, July 26, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The World Health Organization (WHO) performed exceptionally poorly during the COVID-19 crisis, which was one of the greatest threats to global public health since the organization’s founding in 1946. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,593, June 2, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Twitter, which has spent most of Donald Trump’s presidency avoiding a public stand on his use of the medium, has slapped a “public interest notice” on his tweets about …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,578, May 24, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: America and Israel face numerous shared challenges, including terrorism, weapons and nuclear proliferation, cyber warfare, and the spread of radical Islamist ideology. America can consistently depend on the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,531, April 15, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The coronavirus crisis is rattling 19 highly indebted European nations and exposing a potentially fatal lack of communitarian spirit within the EU. European countries have applied a me-first response…
