- Prof. Efraim Inbar
- Paper No. 103
Prime Minister Netanyahu can effectively resist American pressure on Jerusalem. In fact, Jerusalem is the issue on which Netanyahu can best take a stand against Obama.
Perspectives Papers
Perspectives Papers provide analysis from BESA Center research associates and other outside experts on the most important issues pertaining to Israel and the Middle East.
- Prof. Eytan Gilboa
- Paper No. 102
Intense and exclusive American pressure on Israel will result in the
hardening of Arab and Palestinian positions, and will scuttle, rather than initiate, real negotiations.
- Prof. Efraim Inbar
- Paper No. 101
Netanyahu's readiness to compromise has been met by continued resistance from the Palestinians, who have displayed a lack of political pragmatism that is a prerequisite for reaching a compromise.
- Kenneth J. Bialkin
- Paper No. 100
Middle East peace diplomacy aimed at ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the broader Arab-Israeli conflict is bound to fail yet again unless the process is reconfigured to emphasize, as its centerpiece, Arab recognition of the Jewish People’s ancient claims to their ancestral homeland and the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.
- Prof. Stuart A. Cohen
- Paper No. 99
There exists an alternative diplomatic option that Gen. Eiland did not examine in any depth: a unilateral Israeli dismantlement of the civilian
settlements established since 1967 in Judea and Samaria.
- Dr. Max Singer
- Paper No. 98
Postponing and possibly avoiding a fight with the Obama administration was the main reason for Israel’s settlement freeze. Ten months from now the Israeli prime minister may be in a better position to resist US pressure.
- Dr. Thomas O. Hecht
- Paper No. 97
The US is losing its dominance in the Middle East and is gradually being replaced by Iran. The Western world is in urgent need of a leader who will powerfully defend Western values against the growing influence of radical Islam.
- Prof. Dov Waxman
- Paper No. 96
By enlarging the pro-Israel tent, allowing more American Jews to identify themselves as being pro-Israel without having to be knee-jerk
supporters of Israeli governments, J Street has already made a vital
contribution to the American Jewish community.
- Prof. Hillel Frisch
- Paper No. 95
Recent signs of Abbas’ radicalization include indications of support for
violence against Israel. This suggests that Abbas may not have been, after all, the address for negotiation of a stable two-state solution.
- David M. Weinberg
- Paper No. 94
The pious Jewish identity spiritual claptrap that characterized J Street's
conference in Washington is a cover for an agenda that involves besmirching the mainstream Jewish community and engendering a distancing in US-Israel relations.