BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,261, August 21, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Why does the EU single out Israeli โoccupationโ over other โoccupationsโ? Because anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian positions are one of the few rallying cries that unite Europe.
The European Commission, the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,256, August 15, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In an academic ranking of countries according to happiness level, the โPalestinian Territoriesโ are far from the bottom of the list โ something of a surprise, as the never-ending …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,243, August 2, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: According to the BDS movementโs Palestinian branch, the impact of the movement โis increasing substantially.โ Many pro-Israel sites and organizations agree with that assessment. But how accurate is this …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,234, July 23, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: None of the three actors in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict โ Hamas, the PA, and Israel โ envisions peace in the foreseeable future. It is this very absence of the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,221, July 8, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The flight schedules of the major airports in the states of the Middle East provide an excellent window into regional politics. The absence of air traffic between Israel, Saudi …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,203, June 18, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A week and a half ago, Hamas organized its weekly confrontation on the Gaza fence in honor of World Jerusalem Day, an event inaugurated by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,192, June 5, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If the Iranians have their way and are able to control the level of the flames, they will make sure that tensions with the US fall short of war …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,188, May 31, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Notwithstanding Hamasโs recent success at partially overwhelming Iron Dome, it has failed to accomplish one of its signal goals: nothing it has done has succeeded in galvanizing the Arab …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,111, March 13, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US officials and envoys dangle the prospect of peace with Arab states in front of Israel as bait to encourage it to make painful concessions on the Palestinian issue. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,100, March 1, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There are more webpages in Arabic for the al-Aqsa mosque than webpages on Palestinian resistance. In English, there are triple the number of webpages onย Palestinian resistance than on …
