BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 791, April 10, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On March 13, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he was replacing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 708, January 5, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There was a time when the world united against Galileo, who had defied holy teachings by stating that the Earth is neither flat nor the center of the universe, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 682, December 12, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” is strictly a two-party affair. It cannot and will not succeed if the OIC-57 and the G-77 continue to collude towards pitting the UN perpetually …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 674, December 6, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The time has come to stop peddling misleading and empty political metaphors and to refrain from predicating alternative futures on facile inferences that serve only to add confusion to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 657, November 26, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: By refusing to be Israel’s direct interlocutor, and by turning instead to third parties in the hope of cornering Israel into submission, while also demanding that it be prosecuted …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 643, November 16, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There are lessons to be drawn from the differences and similarities between the Kurdish and Catalan referenda. Each defeat can lead to a better future for all stakeholders.
On …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 624, October 23, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Kurds are an ancient tribal people indigenous to West Asia. Between 1918 and 1925, they were made part of four newborn countries, each of which continues to deny …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 586, September 13, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The consequences of the war in Syria; the military opportunism displayed across the region by Iran; and the ploys by China and Russia to chip away at American global …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 578, September 4, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The democratic Jewish state of Israel defies revisionist historicism. It looks Muslim hate in the eye and although stirred, remains unshaken: Israel is here to stay.
In October 1999, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 574, August 30, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When mischief transfigures into menace, and plausible deniability gets in the way of the immediate concerted action necessary to punish state criminality in a decisive and conclusive manner, strategic …
