BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,202, June 19, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: BDS supporters have shifted to a new strategy, a “de-localizing” of the Palestinian cause via attacks on Israel’s cybersecurity industry. Their aim is to universalize an image of Israel …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,736, September 8, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent explosion at Beirut Port highlights both Turkey’s growing defense cooperation with Iran and its strategic interest in Lebanon, which facilitates Ankara’s provocative and worrisome agenda in the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,718, August 30, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In recent years, the common refrain that US involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts is costly, counterproductive, and morally and practically indefensible has taken hold in foreign policy circles and …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,714, August 27, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent revelations about Sa’ad Jabri, an Islamist and corrupt former Saudi intelligence officer, highlight the discrepancy between Western institutions’ criticism of Saudi Arabia in the name of human …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,708, August 25, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There are signs that the current escalation between Armenia and Azerbaijan, far from being incidental to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is driven by Russia’s and Iran’s economic warfare against a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,695, August 17, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Israel-UAE peace deal was an unpleasant surprise to the Moroccan diplomatic and intelligence community as it foiled the general expectation that Rabat would be the third regional power …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,679, August 6, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For the Muslim Brotherhood, the Libyan conflict is an opportunity to flex its muscles in the “weak link” of the Arab Muslim world. Weak African countries have once again …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,673, August 3, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Despite Qatar’s interventionism and use of information warfare to spread conspiracy theories about Israel’s alleged role in the Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia crisis over the GERD, Israel can play an important role …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,671, August 2, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A recent unsubstantiated Amnesty International report attacking Morocco for its alleged use of Israeli software to surveil a journalist is part of Amnesty’s pattern of defending turncoat intelligence officers, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,661, July 27, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel does not need to be directly engaged in combat to help its allies confront and prevail over mutual adversaries. In Libya, it can play a role in training …
