Tag: Israel

Abstract: Whether by design or inadvertence – by “bolt-from-the-blue” attacks or incremental aggressions – certain states could find themselves embroiled in a nuclear war. To stave off such an unprecedented circumstance, the United States and...

Birthright Israel is offering two new programs this summer to address young Diaspora Jews’ desire to bolster their knowledge of geopolitics, public diplomacy and Israel’s counterterrorism efforts. The programs developed to address the global wave...

For scholars and policy-makers, it will be best to examine Israel’s defense posture in theoretic terms. Succinctly, any such examination should acknowledge that the most conspicuous source of national power is an intimidating military...

Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University lberes@purdue.edu ABSTRACT: In its escalating war against terror crimes, Israel’s ultimate challenge is intellectual, not tactical. To proceed successfully in this protracted conflict, Jerusalem’s policies...

‘The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and kill them….”Sahih Muslim, Book 41, cited at The Charter of Hamas (1988) Israel is loathed by its jihadist enemies because it...

(Moshe Phillips is a past board member of the American Zionist Movement and served as a delegate to the 38th World Zionist Congress.) An Israeli cabinet minister whose responsibilities include supervising Israeli-controlled parts of Judea-Samaria...

(Moshe Phillips is a past board member of the American Zionist Movement and served as a delegate to the 38th World Zionist Congress.) Nobody in the State Department, or the United Nations, or at J...

Edited by: Ingrid Burke Friedman | JURIST Editorial Director The author, professor emeritus of international law at Purdue University, argues that ironic though it may sound, a managed conflict with a pre-nuclear Iran may be Israel's...

Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University lberes@purdue.edu           Though generally examined as unrelated perils, Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Palestinian statehood represent more than separate threats to Israel. Considered together, these threats,...

Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University lberes@purdue.edu “An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.” Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000)           At first glance, Iranian aggression and jihadist terrorism are about secular political goals....