Louis René Beres
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
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,...
Belief, belonging and immortality: true causes of Hamas terror
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
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...
An Israel-Iran Nuclear War: What The World Could Expect
“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...
Existential Risks to Israel: “Escalation Dominance” and Nuclear War
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...
Managing Palestinian Terror by Demilitarization: False Hopes of a Two-State Solution
“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
“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
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...
Israel Must Confront the Jihadist Desire for Immortality
“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...