BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 91
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US President Barack Obama has adopted an activist foreign policy, attempting to engage the Muslim world and signaling his expectation that an end the Israel-Palestinian conflict can be negotiated within two years. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 83
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In his address at the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Netanyahu successfully redefined the Israeli consensus and became a mainstream political leader. Netanyahuโs centrist approach also strengthened his …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 75
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Despite the reassurances of Shimon Peres and of foreign ministry officials, American Middle Eastern policy under Obama may lead to US-Israeli tensions. However, the policy directions adopted by Washington have significance for …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 74
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ehud Olmert lurched from unilateralism to final status negotiations to military conflict with the Palestinians, and failed in all three tracks. His failure in dealing effectively with Hamas in Gaza is the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 70
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Among the reasons for the decay and marginalization of the Israel Labor Party are its abandonment of collectivist ideology (including the values of military service and settling the Land of Israel), distancing …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 63
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The developing international campaign to reconstruct Gaza is strategic folly. It is also unlikely to be effective. And, under current circumstances, it is also immoral.
Since the Hamas takeover of Gaza in …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 60
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Conventional wisdom posits that Egypt must and will play a central role in halting the smuggling of weapons from Sinai to Gaza. Yet this is unlikely โ for strategic, political and Egyptian …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 53
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย Israelโs Operation Cast Lead goals should be modest: minimizing theย damage that Hamas rockets can inflict on Israel. While a Hamastan in Gaza is not the ideal neighbor for Israel, there are …
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the Land of Israel has evolved over the past hundred years. Nowadays, most attempts to solve this conflict revolve around the two-state paradigm. However, a solution based on this paradigm is unlikely to emerge in the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 51
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย While venerated by the Left as a hero of peace, the cautious Yitzhak Rabin was first and foremost a military man, for whom peace agreements were primarily a means to buttress security. …
