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WHERE DID COVID-19 REALLY COME FROM? The questions of the true genomic origin as well as the direct source of the initial SARS-CoV-2 strain that infected Patient Zero in China, an event that ultimately unleashed COVID-19 on the world to devastating effect, are hotly debated and highly consequential. Both science and intelligence will contribute to uncovering the evidence needed to answer these questions conclusively. THE EFFECT OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The 2020 outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will go down in history for its massive impact on the global economy and on public health, both physical and psychological. At some point, life will get back to normal, but it will not be the same as it was before. People have been panic buying over the past two weeks as they wake up to how unprepared they are for a crisis. IT’S TIME TO REFORM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION The World Health Organization (WHO) performed exceptionally poorly during the COVID-19 crisis, which was one of the greatest threats to global public health since the organization’s founding in 1946. It is high time that the WHO was reformed from the ground up. President Donald Trump is taking the first steps by threatening to pull all US funding from the organization, which has become TAIWAN AND ISRAEL: DON’T RECOGNIZE, BUT COLLABORATE More than 8,300 km separate Taiwan and Israel, but there are nevertheless important connections between the two small countries. They do not officially recognize each other, but over the past two and a half decades, they have found ways to collaborate. THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,184, May 27, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing international neglect of the plight of the Christians under PA rule could lead to the disappearance of Christianity in the place where it emerged. Three grave events occurred recently involving Christians in the territories ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). THE PENTAGON’S UAP TASK FORCE The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant WHY DO THE ARABS HATE THE PALESTINIANS? This is a simplistic and incomplete view. While it is true that many, perhaps even the majority, of Arabs and Muslims hate Israel, there are a good many who hate the Palestinians just as much. Their hatred of Israel stems from its success at surviving despite wars, terror, boycotts, and constant enmity. It stems from the fact that a Jewish EXPECT A WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA IN THE 2020S Notwithstanding the seeming friendship between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin, and the growing congruence of both countries’ interests in undermining the US-led international order, relations between Russia and China remain at their core as brittle and prone to mutual suspicion and distrust as they have in the past. THE ANTISEMITISM CRISIS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY The Democratic Party has been overtaken by an antisemitism crisis, a process of ”Corbynization” akin to that of the British Labour Party. The process’s three principal proponents, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, personify three components – socialism, Palestinianism, and Islamism – given impunity by the concept of “intersectionality.” BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIESABOUTRESEARCHERSPUBLICATIONSVIDEOMEDIACONTACT US Dr. Doron Matza April 27, 2021 Dr. Ardavan Khoshnood April 26, 2021 Prof. Eytan Gilboa April 25, 2021 Dr. Jiri Valenta April 23, 2021 Dr.Ardavan
WHERE DID COVID-19 REALLY COME FROM? The questions of the true genomic origin as well as the direct source of the initial SARS-CoV-2 strain that infected Patient Zero in China, an event that ultimately unleashed COVID-19 on the world to devastating effect, are hotly debated and highly consequential. Both science and intelligence will contribute to uncovering the evidence needed to answer these questions conclusively. THE EFFECT OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The 2020 outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will go down in history for its massive impact on the global economy and on public health, both physical and psychological. At some point, life will get back to normal, but it will not be the same as it was before. People have been panic buying over the past two weeks as they wake up to how unprepared they are for a crisis. IT’S TIME TO REFORM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION The World Health Organization (WHO) performed exceptionally poorly during the COVID-19 crisis, which was one of the greatest threats to global public health since the organization’s founding in 1946. It is high time that the WHO was reformed from the ground up. President Donald Trump is taking the first steps by threatening to pull all US funding from the organization, which has become TAIWAN AND ISRAEL: DON’T RECOGNIZE, BUT COLLABORATE More than 8,300 km separate Taiwan and Israel, but there are nevertheless important connections between the two small countries. They do not officially recognize each other, but over the past two and a half decades, they have found ways to collaborate. THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,184, May 27, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing international neglect of the plight of the Christians under PA rule could lead to the disappearance of Christianity in the place where it emerged. Three grave events occurred recently involving Christians in the territories ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). THE PENTAGON’S UAP TASK FORCE The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant WHY DO THE ARABS HATE THE PALESTINIANS? This is a simplistic and incomplete view. While it is true that many, perhaps even the majority, of Arabs and Muslims hate Israel, there are a good many who hate the Palestinians just as much. Their hatred of Israel stems from its success at surviving despite wars, terror, boycotts, and constant enmity. It stems from the fact that a Jewish EXPECT A WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA IN THE 2020S Notwithstanding the seeming friendship between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin, and the growing congruence of both countries’ interests in undermining the US-led international order, relations between Russia and China remain at their core as brittle and prone to mutual suspicion and distrust as they have in the past. THE ANTISEMITISM CRISIS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY The Democratic Party has been overtaken by an antisemitism crisis, a process of ”Corbynization” akin to that of the British Labour Party. The process’s three principal proponents, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, personify three components – socialism, Palestinianism, and Islamism – given impunity by the concept of “intersectionality.” ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AFTER THE PANDEMIC A “mood swing” that negatively affected economic globalization started well before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. When Donald Trump began his term as president in 2016, he established a more confrontational US policy toward China. From the former ”feel good” one-world attitude, the world has been moving toward morefragmentation.
CHINA AND VIRUSES: THE CASE OF DR. XIANGGUO QIU In July 2019, a rare event occurred in Canada. Suspected of espionage for China, a group of Chinese virologists was forcibly evicted from the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, where they had been running parts of the Special Pathogen Program of Canada’s public health agency. One of the procedures conducted by the team was the infection of monkeys with the most MOBILE NUCLEAR MICROREACTOR DEVELOPMENT: A MILITARY The US Department of Defense has been working with American companies for the past year on a project to develop a prototype for a portable nuclear microreactor, a device intended for use by the US military in security scenarios around the world. The US Department of Energy is also involved in the project, with the aim of providing electricity to remote sites that are difficult to link to the grid. THE PENTAGON’S UAP TASK FORCE In June 2020, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence unveiled the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) at the Office of Naval Intelligence—a successor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). This paper dives down the rabbit hole with Defense Department insiders, scientists, and declassified material to find answers to a host of questions: Are CAN ISRAEL DEFEAT HAMAS WITHOUT TOPPLING IT? BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,093, February 21, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: So far, Israel’s objectives in armed conflicts with Hamas have been limited so as to avoid the need to reoccupy Gaza or to send it down the “Somalia model” path of chaos.But there might be a third option. Despite its radical Islamist ideology and long-term commitment to Israel’s destruction, Hamas in the WHAT HAPPENS TO ISRAEL IF THE US AND IRAN GO TO WAR? On core matters of peace and security, two closely interrelated questions must be asked: 1. What precisely does Donald Trump have in mind regarding any potential armed conflict with Iran? 2. What might such a possibility portend for Israel, a US ally? Answers to these questions must extend beyond narrowly partisan simplifications. They should be nuanced and subtly overlapping. HAMAS’S POPULARITY: A REALITY CHECK Hamas’s Popularity: A Reality Check. BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,092, February 20, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The photos and particularly the videos of Hamas’s 31st anniversary commemoration in Katiba Square in Gaza evoke the impression of a vibrant, extremely popular movement after 11 years of rule over Gaza. ISRAEL VS. HEZBOLLAH: THE THIRD LEBANON WAR Ever since the 2006 war, Israel has preferred to contain Hezbollah rather than fight it directly. So determined was Israel to avoid going to war with the terrorist group that it tolerated its significant military buildup. Since 2012, however, the IAF has carried out hundreds of sorties inside Syria aimed at stopping the delivery of advanced weapons to Hezbollah. POSTS BY DR. EADO HECHT ON BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR A vicious lie has been making the rounds lately. It is a timeworn smear against the Jewish people in a modern guise. The ancient blood libel—“Jews are poisoners”—stoked antisemitic violence through the ages, from the Black Death to tainted wells. FATAL CHOICES: ISRAEL'S POLICY OF TARGETED KILLING ISRAEL'S POLICY OF TARGETED KILLING 3 such as the mediator Count Bernadette. Most, however, were fellow Jews suspected of being informers.3 Some of the leaders of these groups, such as Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, assumed leadership positions in modern BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIESABOUTRESEARCHERSPUBLICATIONSVIDEOMEDIACONTACT US Dr. Doron Matza April 27, 2021 Dr. Ardavan Khoshnood April 26, 2021 Prof. Eytan Gilboa April 25, 2021 Dr. Jiri Valenta April 23, 2021 Dr.Ardavan
MISSION | BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Mission. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (also known by its acronym, the BESA Center) is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global strategic affairs, particularly as they relate to the national security and foreign policy of Israel and regional peace andstability.
IT’S TIME TO REFORM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION The World Health Organization (WHO) performed exceptionally poorly during the COVID-19 crisis, which was one of the greatest threats to global public health since the organization’s founding in 1946. It is high time that the WHO was reformed from the ground up. President Donald Trump is taking the first steps by threatening to pull all US funding from the organization, which has become THE PLIGHT OF DALIT MUSLIMS IN INDIA IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 The Plight of Dalit Muslims in India in the Era of COVID-19. BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,800, November 5, 2020. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: India’s “untouchables,” the Dalit Muslims, are caught in a vicious circle of poverty across the country, and their plight is only worsening during the COVID-19 pandemic. TAIWAN AND ISRAEL: DON’T RECOGNIZE, BUT COLLABORATE More than 8,300 km separate Taiwan and Israel, but there are nevertheless important connections between the two small countries. They do not officially recognize each other, but over the past two and a half decades, they have found ways to collaborate. THE PENTAGON’S UAP TASK FORCE The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,184, May 27, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing international neglect of the plight of the Christians under PA rule could lead to the disappearance of Christianity in the place where it emerged. Three grave events occurred recently involving Christians in the territories ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). WHAT HAPPENS TO ISRAEL IF THE US AND IRAN GO TO WAR? On core matters of peace and security, two closely interrelated questions must be asked: 1. What precisely does Donald Trump have in mind regarding any potential armed conflict with Iran? 2. What might such a possibility portend for Israel, a US ally? Answers to these questions must extend beyond narrowly partisan simplifications. They should be nuanced and subtly overlapping. WHY DO THE ARABS HATE THE PALESTINIANS? This is a simplistic and incomplete view. While it is true that many, perhaps even the majority, of Arabs and Muslims hate Israel, there are a good many who hate the Palestinians just as much. Their hatred of Israel stems from its success at surviving despite wars, terror, boycotts, and constant enmity. It stems from the fact that a Jewish GREECE, ISRAEL, AND CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE THE BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 139 Greece, Israel, and China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIESABOUTRESEARCHERSPUBLICATIONSVIDEOMEDIACONTACT US Dr. Doron Matza April 27, 2021 Dr. Ardavan Khoshnood April 26, 2021 Prof. Eytan Gilboa April 25, 2021 Dr. Jiri Valenta April 23, 2021 Dr.Ardavan
MISSION | BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Mission. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (also known by its acronym, the BESA Center) is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global strategic affairs, particularly as they relate to the national security and foreign policy of Israel and regional peace andstability.
IT’S TIME TO REFORM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION The World Health Organization (WHO) performed exceptionally poorly during the COVID-19 crisis, which was one of the greatest threats to global public health since the organization’s founding in 1946. It is high time that the WHO was reformed from the ground up. President Donald Trump is taking the first steps by threatening to pull all US funding from the organization, which has become THE PLIGHT OF DALIT MUSLIMS IN INDIA IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 The Plight of Dalit Muslims in India in the Era of COVID-19. BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,800, November 5, 2020. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: India’s “untouchables,” the Dalit Muslims, are caught in a vicious circle of poverty across the country, and their plight is only worsening during the COVID-19 pandemic. TAIWAN AND ISRAEL: DON’T RECOGNIZE, BUT COLLABORATE More than 8,300 km separate Taiwan and Israel, but there are nevertheless important connections between the two small countries. They do not officially recognize each other, but over the past two and a half decades, they have found ways to collaborate. THE PENTAGON’S UAP TASK FORCE The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,184, May 27, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing international neglect of the plight of the Christians under PA rule could lead to the disappearance of Christianity in the place where it emerged. Three grave events occurred recently involving Christians in the territories ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). WHAT HAPPENS TO ISRAEL IF THE US AND IRAN GO TO WAR? On core matters of peace and security, two closely interrelated questions must be asked: 1. What precisely does Donald Trump have in mind regarding any potential armed conflict with Iran? 2. What might such a possibility portend for Israel, a US ally? Answers to these questions must extend beyond narrowly partisan simplifications. They should be nuanced and subtly overlapping. WHY DO THE ARABS HATE THE PALESTINIANS? This is a simplistic and incomplete view. While it is true that many, perhaps even the majority, of Arabs and Muslims hate Israel, there are a good many who hate the Palestinians just as much. Their hatred of Israel stems from its success at surviving despite wars, terror, boycotts, and constant enmity. It stems from the fact that a Jewish GREECE, ISRAEL, AND CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE THE BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 139 Greece, Israel, and China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative WHERE DID COVID-19 REALLY COME FROM? The questions of the true genomic origin as well as the direct source of the initial SARS-CoV-2 strain that infected Patient Zero in China, an event that ultimately unleashed COVID-19 on the world to devastating effect, are hotly debated and highly consequential. Both science and intelligence will contribute to uncovering the evidence needed to answer these questions conclusively. THE EFFECT OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The 2020 outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will go down in history for its massive impact on the global economy and on public health, both physical and psychological. At some point, life will get back to normal, but it will not be the same as it was before. People have been panic buying over the past two weeks as they wake up to how unprepared they are for a crisis. MOBILE NUCLEAR MICROREACTOR DEVELOPMENT: A MILITARY The US Department of Defense has been working with American companies for the past year on a project to develop a prototype for a portable nuclear microreactor, a device intended for use by the US military in security scenarios around the world. The US Department of Energy is also involved in the project, with the aim of providing electricity to remote sites that are difficult to link to the grid. ISRAEL’S SECURITY BARRIER: A POLITICAL RUSE IN THE GUISE The security barrier between Israel and the West Bank constitutes one of the most prolonged and expensive projects Israel has ever carried out, and its adverse implications for Israel’s future borders are of profound significance. The massive crossing of the barrier in recent weeks by West Bank Palestinians offers an opportunity to open the eyes of the public to its real function as a CAN ISRAEL DEFEAT HAMAS WITHOUT TOPPLING IT? BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,093, February 21, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: So far, Israel’s objectives in armed conflicts with Hamas have been limited so as to avoid the need to reoccupy Gaza or to send it down the “Somalia model” path of chaos.But there might be a third option. Despite its radical Islamist ideology and long-term commitment to Israel’s destruction, Hamas in the ISRAEL VS. HEZBOLLAH: THE THIRD LEBANON WAR Ever since the 2006 war, Israel has preferred to contain Hezbollah rather than fight it directly. So determined was Israel to avoid going to war with the terrorist group that it tolerated its significant military buildup. Since 2012, however, the IAF has carried out hundreds of sorties inside Syria aimed at stopping the delivery of advanced weapons to Hezbollah. RUSSIAN ELITES AND WHY THEY MATTER Mainstream analysis of Russian foreign policy decision-making often neglects to factor in the influence of the Russian elites. Despite the inclination of the current Russian government to centralize, elite groups continue to exert considerable influence. Their support for the government is crucial for Vladimir Putin, and their disenchantment with him would be fatal to his rule. ISRAEL’S DILEMMA IN GAZA BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,122, March 25, 2019. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At this strategic watershed moment, one can discern the logic of the policy that has guided the Netanyahu government’s approach to Gaza over the past decade – that it is in Israel’s interest for Hamas to remain in control until the group is rejected by its own people. It is too soon to assess the potential of POSTS BY DR. EADO HECHT ON BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR Dr. Eado Hecht. (Ph.D. Hebrew University) Defense analyst specializing in military theory and military history. Lectures at Bar-Ilan University, Haifa University and at the IDF Command and General Staff College. Serves on the Editorial Advisory Panel of The Journal of Military Operations. Email: eadohecht@walla.com. POSTS BY LT. COL. (RES.) DR. DANY SHOHAM ON BEGIN-SADAT North Korea at a Nuclear Crossroads. Perspectives Papers / By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham. North Korea has found itself at a nuclear crossroads more than once, but the Trump-Pompeo-Bolton triumvirate significantly alters the current dynamic. The primary external forces acting on Pyongyang’s nuclear decision-making are China, Iran, andthe US.
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THE SOLEIMANI KILLING: AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT _January 5, 2020_, PROF. HILLEL FRISCH , PROF. EYTAN GILBOA , MAJ. GEN. (RES.) GERSHON HACOHEN , DR. DORON ITZCHAKOVAND DR. ALEX JOFFE
The targeted killing by the US of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force and close confidant of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has unsettled the region and the world. We have assembled initial takes on this event by five BESA researchers: Prof. Hillel Frisch, Prof. Eytan Gilboa, Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, Dr. Doron Itzchakov, and Alex Joffe. more 2019 WAS MARKED BY DEFIANCE AND DISSENT. 2020 WILL PROBABLY BE NODIFFERENT
_January 6, 2020_, DR. JAMES M. DORSEY Like 2019, the new year—and perhaps the new decade—is likely to continue to be marked by popular protest, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. Protests are likely to produce uncertain and fragile outcomes at best, irrespective of whether the protesters or vested interests gain the immediate upper hand.more DON’T CONFUSE ME WITH FACTS. IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT THE“OCCUPATION”
_January 5, 2020_, DR. ASAF ROMIROWSKY The American Jewish Left has once again fallen in line with the Palestinian demand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict always be conflated to a problem of “occupation,” regardless of facts or history. By leaping to condemn Mike Pompeo’s factual statement that Israeli West Bank “settlements” do not violate international law, American Jewish leftists joined forces with the BDS movement, which views the entirety of Israel as “occupied.”more HOW WILL THE IAEA’S NEW DG COPE WITH IRAN? _January 3, 2020_, LT. COL. (RES.) DR. RAPHAEL OFEK The new DG of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, charged upon taking office on December 3 that Iran has not yet provided an explanation for uranium particles found at a Tehran warehouse. He also protested the abusive behavior of the Iranian authorities toward the IAEA inspector at the end of 2019. However, he has not addressed Iran’s violations of the 2015 nuclear agreement, suggesting that he would like to avoid an antagonistic relationship with Tehran.more BESA’S TOP TEN OF 2019 _January 2, 2020_, BESA CENTER Below are the ten most widely read articles published by the BESA Center in 2019. The selections reflect strong reader interest in Israeli national security, especially the looming possibility of direct confrontation with Iran; rising world antisemitism; and Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbors. more ISRAEL COULD BE KEY TO 2020 MIDDLE EAST GEOPOLITICS _January 2, 2020_, FRANK MUSMAR Israel's geographical position means it must stay agile and manage complex relations with its Muslim neighbors through quiet collaboration and smart use of its technological and economic advantages. Over the past two decades, Israel has discovered offshore gas, begun extensive seawater desalination, and dramatically expanded its navy’s platforms and missions. Ten years ago, Israel depended on Egypt's natural gas; nowadays, Israel exports natural gas to Egypt andJordan.more
TRUMP’S HIGHER PRICE TAG MAKES JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA WEIGH THEIROPTIONS
_January 1, 2020_, DR. ALON LEVKOWITZ President Donald Trump is quadrupling the price tag on US troop deployment in South Korea and Japan, a demand Seoul and Tokyo find overwhelming. Should they consider alternatives to their defense dependency on Washington, they will need to bear in mind that doing without US protection could prove even more costly than Trump’sraised price.more
THE UNITED STATES: THE NEXT DECADE _December 31, 2019_, PROF. EYTAN GILBOA As the next decade approaches, the US stands at a historic crossroads regarding both domestic and foreign issues. The 2020 presidential and congressional elections will to a large extent determine whether the current trends of populism, polarization, and incitement coursing through American society, and of withdrawal from international leadership, will continue or come to an end; whether the phenomenon of “Trumpism” will persist or be remembered as an aberration; whether the political and ideological gaps between Democrats and Republicans that have paralyzed the administration will narrow; and whether the economic boom of the last few years will go on or the US will enter a recession. Demographic shifts are changing the face of the US, and in the course of the decade they will have a significant impact on major political, social, and economic issues. more FIGHTING THE DEMONIZATION OF ISRAEL AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALCOURT
_December 30, 2019_, PROF. EYTAN GILBOA Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, has decided to indict senior Israeli policymakers and military officers for committing war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. Her decision is baseless, preposterous, and discriminatory, and it violates the ICC’s own mission and rules. Bensouda’s action should be placed within the wider context of the Palestinian disinformation, delegitimization, and demonization campaign against Israel at international organizations. Israel should discredit and delegitimize the ICC in turn via aggressive political measures and collaboration with concerned liberal democracies, primarily the US.more THE LAW IS ONLY A SCAFFOLDING _December 29, 2019_, MAJ. GEN. (RES.) GERSHON HACOHEN David Ben-Gurion understood that a state is much more than a legal entity and that the uniqueness of Israel fosters an inherent tension between the state as an organized institutional mechanism and the state as an instrument in a national process of redemption. Hence he believed that, even after its establishment, Israel would continue to be a “state in the making,” a means toward the fulfillment of anendless vision.more
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THE SOLEIMANI KILLING: AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT _January 5, 2020_ PROF. HILLEL FRISCH , PROF. EYTAN GILBOA , MAJ. GEN. (RES.) GERSHON HACOHEN , DR. DORON ITZCHAKOVAND DR. ALEX JOFFE
The targeted killing by the US of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force and close confidant of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has unsettled the region and the world. We have assembled initial takes on this event by five BESA researchers: Prof. Hillel Frisch, Prof. Eytan Gilboa, Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, Dr. Doron Itzchakov, and Alex Joffe.Read more
CONFERENCE: IS ISRAEL PREPARED FOR WAR? _December 4, 2019_ BESA CENTER Video: Lectures from the December 4, 2019 conference on “Is Israel Prepared for War?”Read more
HEZBOLLAH’S DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEM EXPLAINS ITS RESTRAINT _September 8, 2019_ PROF. HILLEL FRISCH Hezbollah responded with restraint to Israel’s three-pronged attacks over the past two weeks in Syria, Iraq, and, above all, a neighborhood in Dahiya, the vast Shiite area in Beirut where Hezbollah is headquartered. The organization’s effort to avoid escalation reflects its demographic problem in Lebanon.Read more
THE EU IS BATTLING ISRAEL IN AREA C _September 2, 2019_ PROF. HILLEL FRISCH Ever since a decision in January 2012, the EU has been expressly committed to the expansion of illegal Palestinian settlement in Area C in conjunction with the PA. This is in blatant disregard of the Oslo accords, which the EU purports to uphold. The object is to create continuous Palestinian settlement throughout the West Bank and thereby isolate and strangle Israeli communities.Read more
THERE IS NO POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR GAZA _November 7, 2018_ PROF. HILLEL FRISCH The claim that an agreement among the US administration, the Palestinian Authority, and the Egyptians to allow the PA to turn the financial screws on Hamas would culminate in the PA’s reassertion of control over the Gaza Strip could not be further from reality. In the Middle East, only armed force prevails.Read more
THE PRIVILEGED PALESTINIAN “REFUGEES” _May 15, 2018_ PROF. EFRAIM KARSH The “Palestine refugees” have been exceptionally indulged by the international community for seventy long years. This ranged from their very recognition as refugees though most of them fail to satisfy the basic criteria for such status, to the unprecedented benefit of a relief agency created exclusively for their welfare (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA), to the unique privilege of passing on “refugee” status to future generations.Read more
CONFERENCE: REFORMING UNRWA _March 18, 2018_ BESA CENTER “Palestine refugees” have been exceptionally indulged by the international community for 70 long years. Consider the ways: They should not even have been classified as refugees, they had the unprecedented benefit of a relief agency created exclusively for their welfare (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA), and they uniquely can pass on the “refugee” status to futuregenerations.
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REFRAMING THE MIDDLE EASTERN AND PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CRISES _March 13, 2018_ DR. ALEX JOFFE AND DR. ASAF ROMIROWSKY There are two Middle Eastern refugee crises currently vying for resources and attention. One is nominally focused on Syria but in fact extends from Libya to Afghanistan. The other crisis is Palestinian and has supposedly been going on since 1948. A closer look at the causes of these crises shows the former to be primarily the result of the collapsing Arab state system and the rise of militant Islam, while the latter cannot be considered a crisis at all.Read more
ISRAEL’S POSSIBLE PATHS TO NUCLEAR WAR _July 22, 2017_ PROF. LOUIS RENÉ BERES North Korea’s nuclearization has implications for Israel’s nuclear deterrence posture. There are several plausible means by which a nuclear conflict could arise in the Middle East. It may be time to consider a phase-out of Israel’s “deliberate nuclear ambiguity” and to focus Israeli planning around evaluations of enemy rationality.Read more
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AUSTRALIA-ISRAEL DIALOGUE _November 1, 2017_ BESA CENTER On November 1, 2017, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and Bar-Ilan Univeristy co-hosted the “Be’er Sheva Dialogue” at the Renaissance Tel Aviv Hotel. The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Prime Minister of Australia, wasin attendance.
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STRATEGIC CHALLENGES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN _February 21, 2017_ BESA CENTER On February 21, 2017, for the second consecutive year, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and B’nai B’rith International jointly held an international conference on Strategic Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean. The event, which took place at the Begin-Sadat Center, involved the participation of experts from Greece, Russia, Britain, Turkey, Albania, the US, and Israel.Read more
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RUSSIA WILL LIKELY COLLAPSE FROM THE INSIDE _September 11, 2019_ EMIL AVDALIANI Russia is historically prone to internal collapse, as is shown by numerous examples from both the imperial and Soviet periods. The collapse usually takes place as Russia rests on the laurels of recent military victories while internal economic and social troubles grow. History teaches that the best way to deal with Russia is to keep intervention to a minimum and wait for its internal troubles to bringabout its collapse.
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THE DAY AFTER AN IRANIAN NUCLEAR STRIKE _September 10, 2019_ DR. ORI NISSIM LEVY There is much discussion around the world about how to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But few, if any, international bodies deal with the question of how to prepare for the day Iran achieves such capabilities, if that day has not already arrived.Read more
“THE OCCUPATION” – HOW THE EU DISCRIMINATES AGAINST ISRAEL _August 21, 2019_ PROF. HILLEL FRISCH Why does the EU single out Israeli “occupation” over other “occupations”? Because anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian positions are one of the few rallying cries that unite Europe.Read more
THE PALESTINIANS, HAPPINESS, AND THE “OCCUPATION” _August 15, 2019_ PROF. HILLEL FRISCH In an academic ranking of countries according to happiness level, the “Palestinian Territories” are far from the bottom of the list – something of a surprise, as the never-ending lamentations about the “Israeli occupation” would suggest a different outcome. The real tragedy is Tunisia, which achieved democracy but has not registered expected economic dividends. Its citizens are more discontented thanthe Palestinians.
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THE UN AGENCY FOR PALESTINIANS IS EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK IT IS _August 11, 2019_ DR. ALEX JOFFE AND DR. ASAF ROMIROWSKY A corruption scandal involving sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation against whistleblowers, and lots of business-class travel has gripped the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). It represents a new low for UNRWA and is an indictment of the idea of an international agency dedicated to a single interest. But it’s also a unique opportunity to see behind the curtain of a billion-dollar UN bureaucracy and phase itout.
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PALESTINIAN SETTLER-COLONIALISM _September 3, 2017_ DR. ALEX JOFFE The concept of “settler colonialism” has been applied with almost unique vehemence against Israel. But the fact that Jews are the indigenous population of the Southern Levant can be proved with ease. In contrast, historical and genealogical evidence shows Palestinians descend primarily from three primary groups: Muslim invaders, Arab immigrants, and local converts to Islam. The Muslim conquest of Byzantine Palestine in the 7th century CE is a textbook example of settler-colonialism, as is subsequent immigration, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries under the Ottoman and British Empires. The application of the concept to Jews and Zionism by Palestinians is both ironic and unhelpful.Read more
MYTH: ISRAEL IS THE LARGEST BENEFICIARY OF US MILITARY AID _February 10, 2017_ PROF. HILLEL FRISCH Many American detractors of Israel begin by citing that Israel receives the lion’s share of US military aid. The very suggestion conjures the demon of an all-powerful Israel lobby that has turned the US Congress into its pawn. But these figures, while reflecting official direct US military aid, are almost meaningless in comparison to the real costs and benefits of US military aid – above all, American boots on the ground. In reality, Israel receives only a small fraction of American military aid, and most of that was spent in the US to the benefit of the American economy.Read more
THE OSLO DISASTER
_September 4, 2016_ PROF. EFRAIM KARSH The Oslo diplomatic process is the starkest strategic blunder in Israel’s history and one of the worst calamities ever to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians. Twenty three years after its euphoric launch on the White House lawn, the Oslo ‘peace process’ has substantially worsened the position of both parties, and made the prospects for peace and reconciliation ever more remote.Read more
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