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Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres
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Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is the author of many books, monographs, and scholarly articles dealing with various legal and military aspects of  nuclear strategy. In Israel, he was Chair of Project Daniel (PM Sharon, 2003). Over the past years, he has published extensively on nuclear warfare issues in the Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); Yale Global Online (Yale University); JURIST; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; The Atlantic; The Washington Times; US News & World Report; Special Warfare (Pentagon); Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College (Pentagon); The New York Times; The Hill; The Jerusalem Post; and Oxford University Press. His twelfth book,  published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield, is titled: Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy.

 

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For Israel, a Two-State Solution Would Be a ‘Final Solution’

The evidence is clear. The true aim of all authoritative Palestinian leaderships is not a sovereign and independent state of Palestine – a diplomatic option these leaderships have willfully rejected again and again – ...

Dangerously Ignored Intersections: Palestinian Statehood and Regional Nuclear War

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When Israel completes its obligatory counter-terrorism war in Gaza, the issue of Palestinian statehood will insistently be raised. This perilous resurrection is foreseeable even though any de facto reward for Hamas criminality would be unconscionable. Still,...
Photo: Protest in front of the BBC after the masscure in the south of Israel in 7 october and the refusal of the BBC to call Hammas a Terror organization, by Nizzan Cohen VIA CC Wikimedia Commons

Belief, belonging and immortality: true causes of Hamas terror

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To meaningfully understand what lies behind Iran-supported Hamas terrorism against Israel, we can learn more from the psychologists and anthropologists than the pundits and politicos. Inter-penetrating problems of religion, war and terror most deeply...

A longer Gaza conflict’s implications for nuclear war with Iran

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Introduction: In the closing days of 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised his nation that Operation Swords of Iron would take additional months to complete. During this period of extended Israeli involvement with counter-terrorism...
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An Israel-Iran Nuclear War: What The World Could Expect

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“I learn a science from the soul’s aggressions.” St. John Perse In parts of the world, a nuclear war is increasingly plausible. Nonetheless, defining meaningful time frames for such a conflict would be problematic, and determining...
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Existential Risks to Israel: “Escalation Dominance” and Nuclear War

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An end to the Israel-Hamas Gaza War could ultimately involve a threat or operational use of nuclear weapons. More precisely, after this conflict, even a pre-nuclear Iran could elicit an Israeli nuclear warning or...
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Managing Palestinian Terror by Demilitarization: False Hopes of a Two-State Solution

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“Men as a rule wittingly believe what they want to believe.” Julius Caesar, The Gallic War In the midst of an unpredictable Gaza War, even well-intentioned calls for a “two-state solution” are sorely misplaced and cumulatively lethal....

Kafka and Israel: A parable for Jewish survival

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“Many people prowl round Mount Sinai.  Their speech is blurred, either they are garrulous or they shout or they are taciturn.  But none of them comes straight down a broad, newly made, smooth road that does...

A just war against criminal terror

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Each state is expected to aid and enforce the law of nations, as part of the common law, by inflicting an adequate punishment upon offenders against that universal law.” Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the...
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Israel Must Confront the Jihadist Desire for Immortality

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 “An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.” Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s security policy decision-makers must take into account the desire of Israel’s terrorist adversaries to achieve immortality through violence. Israel must be...