BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,843, December 10, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The timing of the unanticipated provocation by the Polisario Front against Morocco could be related to the ongoing diplomatic initiative sponsored by the US for the establishment of full …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,809, November 10, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Barack Obama believes he has not yet said his last word in American politics. He may thus view Biden’s victory as an opportunity to revitalize his progressive agenda, on …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,790, October 30, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, which occurred two weeks after a momentous speech by President Emmanuel Macron in which he unveiled a plan to defend French secular values …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,776, October 14, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Polls and other social barometers are consistently forecasting that Joe Biden will win the US presidential election on November 3, but it’s too early to be sure. Relatively little …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,755, September 23, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Historians covering the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 tend to focus on the strategic and regional ramifications deriving from the unexpected victory of the Japanese. Less attention is paid to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,752, September 17, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In attempting to handle an elusive global pandemic that is rife with unknowns, experts must often make decisions based on the worst-case scenario. Israel’s upcoming three-week lockdown is a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,717, August 28, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While public gatherings for the sake of communal prayer have been severely restricted in the name of public safety during the coronavirus pandemic, no such restrictions have been placed …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,682, August 9, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The extent of the current military threat to Israel posed by Hezbollah is the outcome of the hasty Israeli withdrawal from the security zone in South Lebanon in May …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,657, July 23, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Many are wondering: how have retired leading members of the Israeli defense establishment come to locate themselves on the political left, at times even on the radical left? Having …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,625, July 5, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Palestinian-Arab propaganda machine incessantly fuels aggressive anti-Israel campaigns. The PA’s public diplomacy is based on manipulation: it takes advantage of the ignorance and superficial historical knowledge of the …
