BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,760, September 27, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The IDF’s difficulties at the outset of the 1973 Yom Kippur War stemmed from an inherent command flaw rather than an intelligence failure as is commonly believed. The roots …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,747, September 15, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel is different from other democracies in two ways: it has moral political values that are set forth in its Basic Laws, and its values are derived from Jewish …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,732, September 6, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Unlike other Western democracies, Israel has had to face the coronavirus crisis at a time when its social cohesion and governability have been weakened by a chain of processes …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,716, August 28, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US elections will be a contest not just between political figures and rival parties but between opposing worldviews. Biden’s intention to “Europeanize” American democracy would leave the international …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,612, June 22, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Although the “Floyd crisis” in the US contains the seeds of civil war, acknowledgment of the historical errors that gave rise to this crisis, taking responsibility, and making a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,596, June 4, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The conquest of southern Lebanon in Operation Peace for Galilee, and Israel’s long sojourn in the area, had political and military justification. But defects in the IDF’s deployment during …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #171
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Amid the debate on the coronavirus crisis, there is broad agreement on three issues:
