- Dr. Tsilla Hershco
- Paper No. 109
French government reaction to the flotilla affair has been tough and is
perceived by the Israeli mainstream as typical of the unjustified global
diplomatic lynch Israel has been subjected to over this affair.
Gaza
- Dr. Uzi Rubin
- Paper No. 69
Almost the entire Israeli home front has come under rocket and missile assault. This article surveys the Israeli response to rocket attacks, including the targeting of missile launchers and improved civil defense; and discusses the need for a comprehensive active missile defense.
- Dr. Uzi Rubin
- Paper No. 69
מלחמת לבנון השנייה ומבצע "עופרת יצוקה" הוו דגם בזעיר אנפין למלחמות העתיד. איראן וגרורותיה סוריה, החזבאללה והחמאס אינם משקיעים כמעט דבר במערכות נשק "קלאסיות" של מלחמה בעצימות גבוהה. במקום זאת הם בונים ורוכשים כמויות עצומות של טילים ורקטות. בכל מערכה עתידית יהיה העורף הישראלי כולו נתון למתקפה עזה של טילים ורקטות בעוצמה שלא ידענו כמותה. מאמר זה סוקר את אמצעי המענה של ישראל למתקפת הרקטות
- Prof. Stuart A. Cohen
- Paper No. 68
A review of the strategic, operational, societal and diplomatic dimensions of Israel’s operation against Hamas in Gaza produces an overall audit that is far from favorable. "Deterrence" is not a strategic objective and "punishment" is not a tool of realpolitik. The operation threatens to backfire in several ways.
- Prof. Efraim Inbar
- Paper No. 63
The developing international campaign to reconstruct Gaza is strategic folly; is unlikely to be effective; and, under current circumstances, in which Hamas inevitably will benefit from the global largess, is also immoral.
- Prof. Shmuel Sandler
- Paper No. 61
The impending Israeli elections played a role in the decision to go on the offensive against Hamas; and this partially explains why the Israeli media was supportive of the war. For its part, Hamas completely misread the Israeli political mindset.
- Prof. Efraim Inbar
- Paper No. 60
Egypt does not mind if Hamas bleeds Israel a little; it gains domestically by indirectly aiding Hamas; gains internationally by playing a mediating role (in a conflict which it helps maintain on a "low flame"); and is incapable of stopping the Sinai Bedouins who smuggle weapons into Gaza.
- Prof. Hillel Frisch
- Paper No. 57
A decisive, concretely visible Israeli victory over Hamas – which means
pursuing the enemy into its hideouts in Gaza urban areas and refugee camps and bringing about its surrender – is critical to rolling back the march of Islamic fundamentalist political power in the Middle East.
- Dr. Max Singer
- Paper No. 56
Israel cannot achieve total military victory against Hamas, but there are many kinds of victories it can achieve before the Palestinians change enough to make peace possible.
- Prof. Hillel Frisch
- Paper No. 55
Hamas miscalculated its strength and support; erred in ending the six-month ceasefire with Israel; unwisely offended and threatened Egypt; and misread Israeli politics.