The Oslo Accords/Road Map Were Always A Deathtrap For Israel (Part II)

The explicit application of codified restrictions of the laws of war to non-international armed conflicts dates back only as far as the four Geneva Conventions of 1949.

The Oslo Accords/Road Map Were Always A Deathtrap For Israel (Part I)

Some military and diplomatic failures should come as no surprise. One of these is surely the so-called "Peace Process" in the Middle East.

On Quashing Anti-Government Dissent In West Bank Communities: Perspectives Of National Law, International...

Jewish Law is democratic in the sense that it belongs to all of the people, a principle reflected in the Talmudic position that each individual can approach G-d in prayer without priestly intercessions.

On Quashing Anti-Government Dissent In West Bank Communities: Perspectives Of National Law, International...

In the Jewish tradition, the principle of a Higher Law is not only well established; it is the very foundation of all legal order.

On Quashing Anti-Government Dissent In West Bank Communities: Perspectives Of National Law, International Law...

In recent months, Israel's Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, has issued several administrative expulsion orders.

Trust And Survival In World Politics: Israel, Independence And International Law (Part I)

Memory is always at the heart of redemption. It is also indispensable to survival in a still-anarchic world politics.

Waiting For Apocalypse: The ‘End Times’ Factor In Nuclear War Between Israel And Iran...

After absorbing any enemy nuclear aggression, Israel would certainly respond with a nuclear retaliatory strike.

Waiting For Apocalypse: The ‘End Times’ Factor In Nuclear War Between Israel And Iran...

To be sure, it's a subject on which I have written here before, but an additional and generally unrecognized observation now deserves important mention.

Crowds, Conventions and the Slow Death Of Individualism in America

My dear readers, let's look for a few moments behind the news. As we may readily learn from the philosophers, every sham can have a patina.

Israel’s Latest Release Of Terrorists Hardly Cause For “Praise”

It is always difficult to believe that any thinking friend of Israel, let alone a prominent Israeli academic strategist, could find something positive in Israeli territorial surrenders and associated capitulations.

Five Years After Project Daniel… Our Strategic Recommendations to Israel Remain Valid (Part VI)

Looking back over the original recommendations of Project Daniel, The Group concerned itself with, inter alia, the need for an expanded policy of preemption; an ongoing re-evaluation of "nuclear ambiguity";

Five Years After Project Daniel… Our Strategic Recommendations To Israel Remain Valid (Part V)

The Project Daniel Group strongly endorsed the prime minister's acceptance of a broad concept of defensive first strikes, but just as strongly advised against using his undisclosed nuclear arsenal for anything but essential deterrence.

Five Years After Project Daniel… Our Strategic Recommendations to Israel Remain Valid (Part IV)

In our age of Total War, Israel must always remain fully aware of those harms that would threaten its very continuance as a state.

Five Years After Project Daniel… Our Strategic Recommendations To Israel Remain Valid (Part...

Project Daniel examined some of the precise ways in which a nuclear war might actually begin between Israel and its enemies.

Five Years After Project Daniel… Our Strategic Recommendations to Israel Remain Valid (Part II)

Israel remains the openly declared national and religious object of Arab/Islamic genocide.

Five Years After Project Daniel… Our Strategic Recommendations to Israel Remain Valid (Part I)

The views expressed in these six columns are those of Professor Louis René Beres, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any other members of Project Daniel, or of any government.

The True Human Meanings Of A Nuclear Iran

For many years, any talk of preemption against a nuclearizing Iran was certain to elicit primarily harsh and uniform condemnation.

After Olmert’s July 16 ‘Exchange’ Israel’s Rapidly Approaching ‘Sickness Unto Death’

Smugly and shamelessly, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert gives freedom to terrorists in exchange for slain Jews.

Palestinian War And Terror Against Israel:

The Still Unrecognized And Enduring Power Of 'Weakness'

Eliot Spitzer And America’s Soul

By now, Eliot Spitzer is no longer on the front pages, but America's recent fascination with the former New York governor and high-end prostitution did reveal a great deal.

Invited Remarks to Swiss Task Force on World War II Delivered in Bern, Switzerland,...

Ten years ago, Professor Beres - following publication of his memoir in The New York Times − was invited by Swiss Ambassador Thomas Borer to present personal testimony before the specially constituted Swiss Commission on World War II.

Invited Remarks to Swiss Task Force on World War II Delivered in Bern,...

Ten years ago, Professor Beres - following publication of his memoir in The New York Times− was invited by Swiss Ambassador Thomas Borer to present personal testimony before the specially constituted Swiss Commission on World War II. Here, now, is that testimony - still a poignant reminder of yet other critical aspects of the Holocaust.

Golan Surrender Would Be A Strategic Error For Israel

Recent testimony before Congress revealed − incontestably − Syria's secret preparations for membership in the Nuclear Club.

The Absurd Drama Of Israel And ‘Palestine’

There is currently no place on earth called "Palestine" - certainly not in any meaningful legal or diplomatic sense.

Why Israel Should Not Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons: An Informed Response To Obama...

We have seen that, among several other essential purposes, Israel could conceivably need nuclear weapons for nuclear war fighting.

Why Israel Should Not Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons: An Informed Response to Obama...

We have seen that, among other purposes, Israel needs nuclear weapons to undertake and/or to support various forms of preemption.

Why Israel Should Not Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons: An Informed Response To Obama...

We have seen (in last week's list of reasons, numbers 1 and 2) that Israel needs nuclear weapons, among other purposes, to deter large conventional attacks and all levels of unconventional attack by enemy states.

Why Israel Should Not Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons: An Informed Response To Obama...

According to a May 1, 2008 article by Aaron Klein in WorldNetDaily, Joseph Cirincione, director of nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress, and an adviser on nuclear issues to Senator Barack Obama, has essentially urged Israel to give up its nuclear weapons.

Barack Obama And The Middle East ‘Cycle Of Violence’

Senator Barak Obama has displayed basic intelligence and understanding on many complex policy issues, and his "debate promises" in support of Israel were forthright and plausibly meaningful.

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