BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,344, May 13, 2025
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In September 2023, the IMEC initiative was announced. IMEC is an economic corridor that will connect India, the Middle East and Europe, with the support of the United States. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,271, March 26, 2024
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: To continue its mission to defeat Hamas, Israel must take the initiative to replenish the stores of international legitimacy lost due to the acute humanitarian crisis in the Gaza …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,225, October 25, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israelis have united around the goal of toppling the Hamas regime, but little has been said about what would come after. This issue is critical to Israel’s security and …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 366
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The MOU signed last week which grants Israel $38 billion of military aid over a ten-year period demonstrates the robust nature of the US-Israel special relationship. However, in strictly financial terms, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 261
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Last week’s failed ceasefire proposal by John Kerry highlights the clash between the Obama administration’s approach to the Middle East, and the strategy preferred by Israel and other American allies in the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 231
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The BDS movement is driven by anti-Zionism, but its ability to generate support depends on casting Israel as undemocratic and solely responsible for the lack of peace. Consequently, the proposed law …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 220
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The 2003 Iraq War significantly reduced the West’s willingness to confront Iran with the credible military threat required to halt its nuclear weapons program. Critics of the Iraq War were correct …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 165
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel has emerged as an important issue in the Republican primaries. In fact, it has become an important issue for a much wider public than just American Jews and evangelical Christians – …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 141
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Following US President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech, the focus of debate has been on his endorsement of the 1967 borders. Yet, the overwhelming bulk of his speech focused on the so-called …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 128
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The dream of turning Cairo 2011 into “Berlin 1989” is a chimera; the challenge is to prevent “Tehran 1979.” Obama Administration policy, however, threatens to widen the crack in the strategic foundations …
