- Prof. Efraim Inbar
- Paper No. 260
The developing international consensus to offer Gaza economic aid in exchange for a ceasefire is a moral and strategic mistake.
Gaza
- Dr. Eado Hecht
- Paper No. 259
The IDF must develop the technology and the tactical skills to locate, map and destroy Gaza's tunnels.
- Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror
- Paper No. 257
Israel must decide whether it is willing to tolerate a chronic Hamas threat or risk a long, difficult operation to get rid of it.
- Prof. Shmuel Sandler
- Paper No. 256
The current Israel-Hamas war will have broad strategic implications that go far beyond the immediate results on the battlefield.
As long as Palestinians continue to serve as lightning rod against Jews, Israel will never be allowed to defend itself.
A Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Memorandum, July 21, 2014.
- Prof. Efraim Inbar
- Paper No. 255
Against an implacable, well-entrenched, non-state enemy like the Hamas, Israel needs to “mow the grass” once in a while in order to degrade enemy capabilities
- David M. Weinberg
- Paper No. 254
Israel didn’t effect a significant change in the security balance versus Hamas in the Gaza Strip. A draw with the Hamas is strategically unsatisfactory.
- Prof. Hillel Frisch
- Paper No. 253
It is time for a full-scale offensive against Hamas and the other Islamist-Jihadist groups in Gaza.
- Prof. Shmuel Sandler
- Paper No. 191
Israel's reluctance to inflict a decisive defeat of Hamas in Operation Pillar of Defense indicates its desire for a new arrangement for the Gaza Strip. A preferred outcome would be an Egyptian role in Gaza, providing Israel with a real government with whom it could negotiate.