BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,274, September 2, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While Israeli Jews continue to move into urban centers, the Palestinians have been assuming sovereignty in the open lands and leaving the Jews with personal sovereignty solely in their …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,268, August 28, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Over the past fourteen years, to the memory of the destruction of the Temple on Tisha b’Av has been added the memory of the uprooting of the communities of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,267, August 27, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Last week’s murderous terrorist attack reflects the ongoing struggle between Jews and Arabs for territorial control, in which Palestinians have a clearer grasp of their goal: reducing the Jewish …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,257, August 16, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The debate over the interpretation of the clear and present danger emanating from Gaza in the wake of the 2005 unilateral disengagement holds the key to saving Israel from …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,224, July 11, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The rejection by Israeli intellectuals of Jewish spiritual and political activism, as exemplified in the preaching and actions of Rabbi Akiva, who was executed by the Romans for his …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,199, June 13, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Six-Day War was a decisive turning point in the Zionist enterprise. But the project of building Israeli communities on the West Bank and the messianic aspects of Zionism …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,185, May 28, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The former commanders who are demanding a referendum on the possible annexation of parts of the West Bank’s Area C misunderstand the threats confronting Israel. One need only consider …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,183, May 26, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For David Ben-Gurion, the concept of mamlachtiut captured the perennial tension between the establishment of the state of Israel as an orderly and delimited institutional project and the view …
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This study explores the strategic-military implications of the establishment of a Palestinian state along the pre-June 1967 lines. Its central thesis is that the creation of such a state, on the heels of the IDF’s total withdrawal from …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,132, April 4, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Overthrowing Hamas and handing rule in Gaza to Mahmoud Abbas will not bring about a solution to the Gaza problem. It was, after all, Yasser Arafat, Abbas’s predecessor as …
