BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,681, August 7, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion occurred at a warehouse on the waterfront of the Port of Beirut, Lebanon. It killed at least 135 people, wounded at least …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,585, May 27, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The coronavirus crisis has exposed Arab and Islamic notions of fraternity, mutual commitment, and solidarity as hollow rhetorical slogans. Each country in the region is focused entirely on its …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,548, May 4, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan is constantly looking for opportunities to enhance its status as a regional superpower and promote its Islamist ideology in the Arab Middle East. Libya …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,509, March 29, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The 290 Turkish soldiers killed in action on Syrian soil in recent years are a grim reminder of the unsettled questions that continue, after decades, to poison relations between …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1006, November 14, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On October 13, 1921, the Kars Agreement was signed in the town of Kars in eastern Anatolia (Western Armenia). This agreement redrew, in Turkeyโs favor, the Kars-Ardahan-Artvin border between …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 962, September 30, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Post-Qaddafi Libya is divided between two governments, and the consequence of that division is mounting chaos. Europe, the US, Canada, and the UN will have to decide at what …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 928, August 21, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Much has been published against the new Israeli Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People. Many, both in Israel and abroad, ask: Why is it necessary? …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 783, March 28, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Hamas has failed because it is caught between two irreconcilable principles: establishing a modern, functioning state that provides for its citizens while at the same time maintaining a perpetual …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 719, January 18, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The existence of a living Jewish people in a functioning Jewish state threatens the very raison dโรชtre of Islam, which came into being to render Judaism obsolete. For that …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 697, December 24, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Speculation is rife about the possibility of normalizing relations between Israel and the nations of the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar). If such negotiations do …
