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Professor Louis Rene Beres - Archives 2000
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Iran's Growing Threat to Israel
Louis Rene Beres - Professor of International Law
Let us consider, systematically, Iran's growing military threat to Israel. To do this properly, we should begin with a look at the sort of models used by strategic analysts in general. Thereafter, we may move from the general to the particular, from abstract theorizing to concrete considerations of Iran and Israel. |
"Oh Ye Who Are Jews....Long for Death...."
Professor Louis Rene Beres
"Verily," said the late King Ibn Sa'ud to a British guest, "the word of God teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of God Almighty." This view still obtains everywhere in the Arab world. |
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The Sacrificial Savagery of Ramallah
L. R. Beres - Professor of International Law
We learn from Camus that there are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. But the crimes of the Palestinian people in Ramallah against two Israelis in a PA "police station" are beyond even the outermost limits of passion. Grotesque by even the most abysmal standards of atrocity, these crimes were so monstrous that they defy any human measure of punishment. |
Reflections
Louis R. Beres - Professor of International Law
Prof. Beres reflects of the world in general on what we choose to forget and what the proce may be for not paying attention. |
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Palestine is Here - What Shall Israel do Now?
While Israel may try to claim certain sections of the DOP in it's favour - Palestine is here. Prof. Beres suggests that Israel now starts worryig about what comes after ... |
Palestinian Statehood and International Law
Israel, at Oslo and especially afterwards, made mistake after mistake by impropper attention to international law. We will all suffer from it, as soon we will see when Arafat declares the Palestinian State, and Israel will not have any choice in the matter. | |
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Israel's Nightmare
July 30, 2000 ... Israel's demons are of a different form. Their mien is not frightful, but ordinary. If they are sinister it is not because they are hideous, but because they are commonplace. Their evil is not deliberate. But these demons are still thoroughly lethal. |
On Palestinian Terrorism as Sacrificial Behavior
July 24, 2000 Israeli officials, never particularly intellectual in their approach to complex policy problems, remain conceptually in the dark concerning aspects of Palestinian terrorism. Today they embark upon new waves of concessions on the presumption that this will appease their "partners in peace" and reduce Israel's exposure to future instances of terror. |
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On The Danger of False Promises
Recently I met privately, at the Israeli Embassy, with Ambassador David Ivry. Reflecting further upon that July 3rd meeting, I am now struck by one particular rationale offered to me by the Ambassador for Israeli adherence to Oslo: Israel, he stated, MUST give its young people the hope for peace; anything less would lead them to abandon their country and "move to the United States." ... |
The Strategic Thinker: Where is he/she in Israel?
Israel, today, needs such a Thinker, one who would focus specifically on security requirements of the Jewish State. But, ironically, he or she is nowhere to be found. |
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Awaiting Palestine
June 18, 2000 Those who place hope in outside protection for Israel, primarily from the U.S., assume - more or less - a continuation of traditional international relations. Yet, it is altogether likely that we live in an era of total fragmentation and disunity, a worldwide anarchy that will give new meaning to "Westphalian" international relations and reinforce, rather than reduce, the self-help imperative. |
Arafat Returns to Washington
June 16, 2000 Nullum crimen sine poena! "No crime without a punishment." This major principle of law, essential to civilized international relations, obligates all states - but especially a global superpower - to seek out and prosecute the perpetrators of crimes of war, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Today this obligation extends as well to crimes of terrorism. It is more than a little ironic, therefore, that Yassir Arafat has now met yet again with the President of the United States. |
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A Modest Proposal for Barak's Israel
June 15, 2000 The Lex Talionis, or law of exact retaliation, was born in ancient Israel. Not, by any means, a bloodthirsty principle of vengeance, this seminal Jewish contribution to justice prescribes that an injury must be requited by a reciprocal injury, no less and no more. A law of compassion, not of hatred, the Lex flows,inter alia, from the understanding that crime demands punishment and that unpunished crime pollutes the entire land. Significantly, this essential idea of retaliatory justice, of "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," has figured traditionally as a key element of defense policy for the current State of Israel. |
Israel's Survival and "The Coming of The Messiah"
June 1, 2000 Using a parable of Kafka's, Prof. Beres tries in this article to explain some of the painful paradox's of the Israeli modern state. |
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Why Golan Demilitarization would not Work
Professor Louis Beres
In an article from 1995 in which he wrote with Israeli ambassador, Zalman Shoval, Beres explains why demilitarization in the Golan cannot succeed, and Syria in the Golan will be a threat to Israel. |
The Meaning of Terrorism for the IDF Military Commander
May 20, 2000 How do we define "terror", and how should we deal with it? Is it the "insignificant" problem Israel has to deal with as the world has brainwashed the Israeli left to believe, or is it a threat to Israel's survival? |
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Nonproliferation and Power
May 2, 2000 IN this in-depth article, Prof. Beres explains why the Nuclear option is so important for Israels' survival. |
Terrorism, Pain and Power
It has been proof that "giving in" to terror never stopped it. So why is Israel continuing down this road? |
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A New Zionist Congress
Louis Rene Beres
Professor Beres, in this article is caling for a new Zionist congress. This congress is now in the planning and will be followed by GAMLA in the months to come. |
Israel and Enlightenment
Israelis may think that Israel is a given fact. Professor Beres suggests they learn a bit of history and wake up before it's too late. |
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A New Future for Israel: The Jewish Leadership Alternative
Professor Beres, in his address to The Jewish Leadership Movement, USA Mid-Winter Conference on February 13 tells us what the dangers of bad leadership is putting us in to. |
Hating the Israelis as Jews
February 8, 2000
In the strict Islamic view, Israel is always the individual Jew in
macrocosm. The Jewish State must be despised because of this
relationship, because of the allegedly "innate evil" of each individual
Jew.
This is a very far cry from the view (accepted by supporters of the Oslo
Process) that Israel is despised only because it is an "occupier." The
Israeli is despised in the Islamic world because he is a Jew. Period.
This critical Islamic position was clarified by a recent article in
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AHRAM. Here, Dr. Lufti Abd al-Azim wrote unambiguously:
The first thing that we have to make clear is that
no distinction must be made between the Jew and the
Israeli....The Jew is a Jew, through the millennia....in
spurning all moral values, devouring the living and
drinking his blood for the sake of a few coins. The
Jew, the Merchant of Venice, does not differ from
the killer of Deir Yasin or the killer of the camps.
They are equal examples of human degradation. Let
us therefore put aside such distinctions and talk
about Jews.
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The Beres - Gazit Debate: Revisited - Part II
January 31, 2000
In a self-description, Gen. Gazit maintained, in the latter part of
our
1995 debate, that "I am not a religious Jew....and I am very much concerned
with the frightening possibility that my Zionist dream may turn into a
passing episode." What has brought Israel to its current condition, he
continued, are several "strategic mistakes," including too few Jews in
Israel ("I believe that our overall strategic situation would have been
different if there would have been eight or ten million Jews in
Israel....")
and the "element of fatigue" ("The burden we have been carrying in Israel
for the last 47 years, and perhaps for the last 75 years, has been
enormous...."). Consequently, "...it is a must to give hope to the people
in
Israel," a hope that lies in "giving the Peace Process an honest try."
There was more. Said the former IDF Intelligence Chief, even if we
fail in 1995, we should not be discouraged: "We should just go on waiting
for the ripening of more suitable conditions." And there would be no
urgency to accept a bad agreement: "The agreement would have to be
acceptable to both sides."
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The Beres - Gazit debate - Revisited
January 26, 2000
When our debate over the "Peace Process" first appeared in
MIDSTREAM, Shlomo Gazit expressed his preference for "separation between
the Jewish state and the Palestinians, and the establishment of an
independent, sovereign Palestinian state." Acknowledging that this
particular plan would be "far from perfect," he made this preference
contingent upon "valid security arrangements," "an evacuation of all
Israeli settlements and settlers from the areas that would become
Palestinian," and "an implementation based on a very long timetable...."
Regarding "the one only feasible solution that could greatly diminish the
terrorism threat," Gazit recommended "closure of the border lines and the
physical separation of Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab communities."
This recommendation flowed from the General's understanding that "Israel's
continued occupation has only enhanced terrorism, and the Palestinian
Intifada is just one example."
Looking back at these published arguments in the year 2000, there
was evidently much wrong with them. The "valid security arrangements"
were ultimately drafted by Israeli academic strategists with little
intellectual aptitude, producing the current unhappy state of growing
Israeli vulnerability and military weakness. The prescribed "evacuation" of
Jews from "occupied Arab lands" was nothing short of a prescription for
Jewish auto-destruction, a modern pogrom fashioned not by historic killers
of Jews but by Jews themselves. As for the "long timetable," Gazit
apparently forgot that "length" was not entirely up to the Israeli side.
Rather, the Palestinian Authority also had something to say about this
timetable, and it was their view that prevailed. Not surprisingly, the IDF
is now running to "evacuate" Jews quickly enough to satisfy Israel's sworn
enemies, and "Palestine" will soon be entirely Judenrein.
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Surrendering the Golan: Civil Disobedience, Jewish Law and the Middle East Peace Process
Professor Louis Rene Beres
January 5, 2000 The so-called Middle East Peace Process threatens Israel with dismemberment and disappearance. Aware of such intolerable prospects, soon to be enlarged by a Barak surrender of the Golan Heights to Syria, tens of thousands of anti-government activists in Israel will shortly join in sustained opposition to life-endangering appeasement and capitulation. Whether in mass protests that paralyze the country's roads or in demonstrations on hilltops in Judea, Samaria and the Golan, this opposition will, at first, take the form of civil disobedience. Although the Government will object strongly to such tactics, civil disobedience has a long and distinguished tradition in jurisprudence and democratic theory. Ironically, as the following argument makes clear, the roots of this tradition lie in Jewish Law. |
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