BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,844, December 11, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Despite non-stop forebodings that have gone on for decades among analysts and the intelligentsia about the inevitable fall of the Jordanian monarchy, the recent parliamentary elections proved that yet …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,838, December 4, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The paltry number of demonstrators who took to the streets of Iran in response to the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, as well as other forms of evidence, reveal that …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,827, November 22, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The events surrounding the recent constitutional referendum in Algeria reflect broader trends in the region and the prospect that Algeria might eventually join the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan in …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,813, November 12, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Normalizing relations between the two veteran peacemakers, Israel and Egypt, rather than making peace with Saudi Arabia could be the crowning achievement of the Abraham Accords peace process. An …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,801, November 5, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A generation-old political sclerosis among the Palestinians is likely to end in anarchy and warlords unless some form of autonomy with links to Jordan is supported by the international …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,764, September 30, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The skewed reporting of housing demolitions in the West Bank is yet another tool with which the EU engages in blatant discrimination against Israel. But does it help the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,757, September 24, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Palestinians have been lying in all directions for far too long. A gullible liberal public might buy into their lies for a while, but not forever. The UAE …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,729, September 3, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: To the surprise of Iranian and Palestinian leaders, the Arab public did not protest the Israel-UAE peace agreement—but they continue to protest Iranian meddling in Iraqi and Lebanese affairs. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,692, August 14, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The early Zionists had plenty of will but few means with which to achieve their goals, yet they changed the course of Jewish history. Israel today possesses the means …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,687, August 11, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: True to form, liberals are hopeful that the Beirut explosion, Macron’s visit to Lebanon, and the youthful demonstrations against the country’s Hezbollah-dominated government herald a new popular unity and …
