Tag: Israel
Israel, Iran, and Nuclear War: A History of the Future
For Israel’s military planners, issues of Iranian nuclearization are increasingly bewildering and many-sided. Even while Israel remains the only regional atomic power, a nuclear war is not out of the question. More precisely, even...
Media’s seven greatest Israel lies and cover-ups in October
Americans seeking truth about Israel and the Middle East can rarely find it in our traditional media. This point has been proven by a recent raft of media reports based on outright lies, cover-ups, twisted fantasies...
Disrespect or disinterest where Israel is concerned
In a disconcerting display of barefaced evasion, sidestepping and diversion of a simple interview question, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris provided more cause for concern for those warning of the grave consequences for Israel...
Israel, Iran and Nuclear Deterrence: What Happens “Where There Is No Common Power”
Abstract: Israel and Iran remain poised for a multi-level war. Such conflict could become nuclear even if Iran were to remain non-nuclear. This generally-overlooked observation owes to an inevitably ensuing competition in risk-taking. To wit,...
Iran and Israel lead off vice-presidential debate
The U.S. vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night between Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, kicked off with a question about Iran’s ballistic-missile attack on Israel earlier that day.
The moderator,...
Israel vs. its mortal enemies: Deeper meanings of terror, violence against Jewish state –...
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other jihadist foes of Israel are ultimately more focused on transcendent goals than on tactical or strategic advantages. This focus is “power over death.” How ought Israeli military...
Could Israel’s Nuclear Deterrent Support “Escalation Dominance” Against Iran?
A direct and protracted war between Israel and Iran is now very likely. Whatever its nuances, any such conflict will drive each adversary to seek “escalation dominance.” For the moment, such a war would...
Seductions of Immortality: A Core Obstacle to Israel’s Survival
In the final analysis, Israel faces existential threats not because of multiplying enemy weapons or strategies, but on account of adversarial death fears. Among other things, this means that Islamist Iran and its assorted...
Irony and imagination: Israel’s unseen path to survival
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
Jorge Luis Borges, the late Argentine writer and philosopher, sometimes identified himself as a Jew. Though lacking any basis in Halacha, he still felt...
Israel has a ‘natural and historic’ right to exist, the UN recognized in 1947,.before...
Abba Eban, Israel’s first permanent representative to the UN, once called the UN, “the world center for anti-Semitism.” Attacks against Israel were so strident during his tenure , he said that “If Algeria introduced...