BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 948, September 14, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Prominent politicians still advocate withdrawal from the West Bank. A simple analysis of pertinent basic data that appears in the Shin Bet’s terrorist summary for the year 2006 alone …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 942, September 7, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Trump is described, even by the few commentators who are relatively friendly towards him, as having no clear strategy in international affairs. This assessment does not hold true …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 940, September 5, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The accumulated deterrence achieved in the three previous rounds of wide-scale fighting between Israel and Hamas in 2008-9, 2012, and 2014 has come to a temporary halt. Israel must …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 927, August 21, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israeli Jewish leftists and Israel’s Arab politicians have been the major detractors of the newly passed “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.” Ibn Khaldun’s concept …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 920, August 13, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US administration and Congress should address a major loophole in the sanctions regime: the robust financial and economic ties between Gulf States and their Iranian nemesis. This would …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 911, August 1, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Iran’s hard power in Lebanon is well-known. At its beck and call is the Hezbollah militia, the powerful military force through which it largely controls the Lebanese state. Its …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 896, July 16, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On July 8, Israel allegedly conducted an airstrike in Syrian territory that struck once again at the T4 base near Homs. Interestingly, Israel did not conduct any airstrikes to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 895, July 16, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Why has Russia under Putin acknowledged Israel’s need to prevent the buildup of an Iranian military presence in Syria? Putin’s vision is to cement an alliance of minorities against …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 884, July 5, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel must halt the reconsolidation of the Syrian regime, especially in the country’s south. Russia helped to bolster the regime through airpower. In response to the resulting and growing …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 880, July 2, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The downturn in Hamas’s fortunes is not only political but also practical. From the 1990s through the “al-Aqsa intifada,” it made lethal use of suicide terrorism. Its substitutes since …
