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Prof. Efraim Karsh

Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. Professor Emeritus of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at Kingโ€™s College London; Professor of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University; Principal Research Fellow (and former Director) of the Middle East Forum (Philadelphia), where he also edits the scholarly journal Middle East Quarterly; founding editor of the scholarly journal Israel Affairs, now in its twenty-fourth year, and founding general editor of a Routledge book series on Israeli History, Politics and Society, with over 60 books published. Email: [email protected]

The Oslo Disaster

Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 123

Prof. Efraim Karsh, the incoming director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, indicts the Oslo diplomatic process as โ€œthe starkest strategic blunder in Israelโ€™s historyโ€ and as โ€œone of the worst calamities

Occupation Is Not the Problem

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 346, July 4, 2016

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The proposition that โ€œoccupationโ€ is to blame for Palestinian terrorism defies history, reality, and logic. Israelโ€™s control of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza has been

Running Away from Statehood, Again

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 246

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย The Palestinian Authoritiesโ€™ decision to strike an agreement with Hamas instead of with Israel is of little surprise. Since before 1948, the Palestinian leadership has continually rejected any possibility of attaining

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