BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,007, November 15, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas was seemingly sparked by the exposure of an Israeli special forces team during a covert operation in Khan Yunis. The …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 979, October 17, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While there is little doubt that the Bedouin settlement of Khan Ahmar (on the Jerusalem-Dead Sea road) was illegally built, the decision to move its residents to an alternative …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 966, October 4, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The downing of the Russian plane requires Israel to reevaluate the continued relevance of its years-long air campaign in Syria. While the struggle to prevent the entrenchment of Iranian …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 956, September 21, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It is not alleged “religionization” that threatens Israeli identity and deepens the cleavages in Israeli society but the absence of a mutually accepted contemporary Jewish common ground.
The …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 951, September 17, 2018
Mr. Prime Minister,
I would like to contact you personally and directly.
The state of Israel and its citizens have been fortunate to have you at the helm for the past …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 941, September 6, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: With the sole exception of Palestinians, international law does not grant refugee status to generation after generation of any group until the end of time. The American decision to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 933, August 28, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Extricating itself from President Clinton’s December 2000 “peace” parameters is a supreme Israeli interest. Ironically, this goal is being made feasible by the crystallizing deal with Hamas over the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 890, July 11, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The situation in the Gaza Strip since the 2005 disengagement debunks three fundamental assumptions that have become axiomatic in the Israeli security discourse: that total separation between Israelis and …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 883, July 5, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There is no technological solution to the problem of kite/balloon terrorism. However decisive it may be, technology in and of itself does not guarantee victory.
Even against a simple …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 871, June 20, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Hamas’s kite terrorism may not pose an existential threat, but by turning thousands of hectares of farmland into a wilderness and undermining Israel’s ability to provide peace and security …
