BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,504, March 25, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When PM Benjamin Netanyahu said, in a March 21 TV interview, that “with God’s help we’ll get through” the coronavirus crisis, the interviewer interrupted him with these words: “With …
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. 1,482, March 13, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Combat in well defended built-up areas and in underground fortified facilities requires a large-scale order of battle quantitatively greater than anything known in the past. Meeting this challenge depends …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,470, March 5, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Tel Hai (which occurred on March 1, 1920), it is instructive to recall the heated debate that preceded it among the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,456, February 24, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In light of the new defensive challenges along the confrontation lines, and particularly the growing threat of the surprise infiltration of Israeli territory by Hezbollah and Hamas forces, it …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,446, February 11, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Trump’s peace plan must be understood as a systemic impetus toward a new breakthrough rather than as a practical blueprint for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In stark contrast …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,442, February 7, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Most of the talk about the ravages of last month’s floods in Israel’s coastal cities concerns the responsibility of state authorities that failed to invest sufficiently in infrastructure development. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,431, January 30, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Regardless of the ambiguities and open questions attending President Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” Israel clearly stands at a historic juncture and must decide what to make of this …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,422, January 26, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Jordan Valley, in its full scope and broadest definition, is essential to Israel’s national security. Its retention by Israel requires not only military deployment but a comprehensive development …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,409, January 16, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The diplomatic campaign Mahmoud Abbas has been waging for a decade and a half is no less dangerous to Israel than the “armed struggle” led by Hamas and Islamic …
