BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 156
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The turmoil in the Arab world is changing the strategic landscape around Israel. However, one area that has received little attention is the eastern Mediterranean basin, where elements of radical Islam could …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 154
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent IAEA report reaffirms suspicions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. While this might generate an additional round of sanctions on Iran, these are unlikely to bring about change in Iran’s …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 148
This paper is a revised version of a piece first published by Bitterlemons.org on August 22, 2011.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The decision to cut off negotiations with Israel and go to the UN in September …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 146
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish demands are unreasonable and an apology will not change the anti-Israeli policy of an increasingly authoritarian and Islamist Turkey. Israel’s reluctance to criticize Erdogan’s government is construed as weakness and Jerusalem …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 143
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu went to Washington with a centrist message, eliciting great support for the Israeli position both by the US Congress and by the Israeli public. He parried the attempts …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 136
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel is under pressure to present a new “peace initiative,” but the wisdom of such a move is not self-evident. While a peace initiative may deflect some of the international criticism, it …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 132
This Perspectives Paper is excerpted from a Winter 2011 article in Orbis Journal, a version of which was published by the FPRI.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s foreign policy reorientation – away from the West …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 127
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While it is uncertain at this point what Egypt’s fate will be, it is clear that whatever happens, it will have a domino effect on the entire Middle East. The current unrest …
Tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem have escalated since Turkey harshly criticized Israel following its invasion of the Gaza Strip in December 2008 (Operation Cast Lead). This is due to a reorientation in Turkish foreign policy, characterized by moving away from …
