BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,256, January 18, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Despite compelling logical and historical arguments against a two-state solution, louder and louder demands for a Palestinian state are being voiced worldwide. In response, Israel and its allies should …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,254, January 14, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Though the issues of Palestinian statehood and nuclear war are usually treated by Israel as separate perils, they have the potential to intersect. Iran’s ties to an eventual state …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,240, November 30, 2023
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”
Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s security policy decision-makers must take into account the desire of Israel’s terrorist adversaries …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,226, October 30, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In its obligatory war against Palestinian terror – a criminal process encouraged and sustained by Iran – Israel is acting within the bounds of pertinent international law. Though this …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 200
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In essence, the world of statecraft and strategy is a world of systems. Derivatively, Israeli nuclear deterrence is a system-determined process, one that rests on fixed concepts and principles but varies …
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On core matters of peace and security, two closely interrelated questions must be asked:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s presumptive nuclear deterrence posture depends upon several separate but intersecting factors. Most important, of course, are the country’s weapons, infrastructures, and missile defense capabilities. Less conspicuously urgent, but still important, are the principal defining structures of world …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,127, March 31, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For all nation-states, but especially the most powerful or influential, success must be measured along two separate dimensions: present and future. Although Israeli leaders may correctly calculate that …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,105, March 7, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While President Trump intends to bolster US power through enhanced weapons systems and a rededication to belligerent nationalist foreign policies, authentic national security will require new emphases on intellect, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,053, January 1, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Opposing terrorism, especially jihadist terror, has become a continuous security obligation of the US, Europe, and of course Israel. Still, too little serious analytic attention has been directed towards …
