Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 202
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Thirty years after its euphoric launch, the “Oslo peace process” between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) stands as the worst calamity to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians since the …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 196
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The May 2021 riots by the Israeli Arabs, like their October 2000 precursor, were not an act of social protest but a nationalist/Islamist insurrection in support of an external attack. It …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,044, May 23, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While many in the West were quick to condemn Israel for its response to Hamas’s attacks on its population centers, they must face up to the fact that there …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,029, May 14, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing explosion of violence by Israel’s Arabs against their Jewish compatriots is not an act of social protest as is wrongly claimed by many commentators but an internal …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,577, May 22, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s May 2000 rushed evacuation of its security zone in south Lebanon and the desertion of its longstanding local allies there tarnished the Jewish State’s deterrent posture and helped …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #172
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There is probably no more understated event in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict than the San Remo Conference of April 1920. Convened for a mere week as part of the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,486, March 16, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The possibility of an Israeli minority government that relies on the Joint Arab List underscores the clear and present danger of accommodating political parties and movements that reject the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,309, October 11, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: By ignoring millions of declassified documents from the period of the British Mandate (1920-48) and Israel’s early days that show the claim of premeditated dispossession of the Palestinian Arabs …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,009, November 19, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It is a historical irony that last week’s resignation of defense minister Avigdor Lieberman came on the heels of the 23rd anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, for it can …
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Precisely two decades after the failure by the Golda Meir government to identify a willing Arab peace partner triggered the devastating 1973 Yom Kippur war, another Labor government wrought a far worse catastrophe by substituting an unreconstructed terror …
