Prof. Louis René Beres

ATTACK FROM IRAN:

A law-based opportunity for Israel to prevent Iran's nuclear arms

This is not a moment for Israeli strategic thinking to become confused or shortsighted. Opinion.

Undermining Israel

The United States, Israel and regional nuclear war: A “Two-State Solution” would enlarge not “only” the jihadist terror threat to Israel (both conventional and unconventional), but also the prospect of major regional war. Opinion.

Israel and "Palestine": What international law expects

There is no reason to believe that "Palestine" would ever make good on any pre-independence promises to support Israel’s irrevocable rights to "peace and security." Israel must use that against its proponents. Opinion.

Enforcing the Law of Nations

Israel's targeted killing and counter-terrorism is justified in today's world. International law is not a suicide pact, especially when an adversary remains indifferent to its unassailable claims. Opinion.

Managing nuclear risk: A task for the US and Israel

Because there has never been an authentic nuclear war (Hiroshima and Nagasaki don't "count"), determining relevant probabilities is a sorely problematic task. Opinion.

Nuclear War with Iran: Science-based options

At some point, a nuclear war involving Israel may become more imaginable. Israel’s corresponding responsibility should be to prepare prudently and systematically for all contingencies, as outlined below. Op-ed.

True origins of the Palestinian war against Israel

The lawlessness of "heroic operations." What does international law actually say about these incessantly dissembling circumstances in the Middle East? Op-ed.

Belonging and immortality: Causes of Hamas terror

Because they are primal, these crimes can never be fully controlled by reason, law or diplomacy. What then? Israel has no choice but to respond militarily. Opinion.

A longer Gaza conflict's implications for nuclear war with Iran

Will the Iran regime be ovethrown by the people? Israel must not rely on that and plan for Iran accelerating its nuclear program. Opinion.

Existential risks to Israel

On "escalation dominance" and nuclear war. Opinion.

There is no such thing as a demilitarized Palestine Arab state

Those who seek a Two-State Solution are urging nothing less than the creation of a determinably criminal aggressor state. Op-ed.

A just war against criminal terror

Israel, the perpetually beleaguered state, is actually undertaking essential efforts at international law enforcement in this war. Opinion.

If you like Gaza, you'll love 'Palestine'

What, exactly, were the Palestinian Arabs trying to "liberate?" Op-ed.

A deeper look at combating Jihadist terror

"National liberation” movements that fail to meet the test of just means can never be protected as lawful or legitimate in themselves. Op-ed

Terrorism and the Jihadist "hunger for immortality"

There are unseen national security connections. Israeli surrender of lands could never remove those threats. Op-ed.

Israel's survival: Escalation, dominance and nuclear war

'For by Wise Counsel Thou Shalt Make Thy War'- (Proverbs). Israel needs exceptionally capable strategic thinkers, not just tacticians.Op-ed.

Israel is within the bounds of international law.

International law is not a suicide pact. Regarding the current Gaza War, the pertinent truth that it is a necessary war, and is unambiguous.

Hamas Terror Attacks and International Law

Israel would be acting against justice if it left Hamas unpunished. Operation Swords of Iron is an example of Israeli law enforcement.Op-ed.

A nuclear war could "sometimes happen"

An analysis of Israel's doctrinal imperatives. Israel’s objective should always be deterrence ex ante, not revenge ex post.

Targeting terrorist leaders in Gaza and international law

Are terrorists normal? On Nazis, Hamas, al Qaeda, et al

Staving off nuclear war in the Middle East

Synergistic perils for Israel, 2019

Trump, national security and nuclear war

Israel, counter-terrorism and the future of immortality

Confronting crimes against humanity

The seductive appeal of Jihadist terror

Future requirements of Israel's nuclear strategy

Donald Trump, Syria and the prevention of Genocide

Twin perils for Israel: Iranian nuclear weapons and "Palestine"

Looking ahead: Longer term prospects for an Israel-Iran nuclear war

N. Korea and Iran: Regarding eventual nuclear attack upon Israel

Expert: Palestinian state an existential danger to Israel

Leading US researcher states 'Palestine' is liable to endanger Israel much more than third intifada, will increase danger of nuclear war.

Israel and self-defense: Dealing militarily with Syria 'spillovers'

Are Israeli raids on Syrian targets legal?

Israel's nuclear strategy and US national security

ISIS is only a symptom - underneath lies a much deeper threat

America first? Things the next president must realize

After the UNESCO vote

Lessons for the next US president

Always imperiled

Differences between terrorism and counter-terrorism in the Middle East

Israel's struggle to overcome primal disorder, irrationality and chaos

Israel's strategic imperative

Navigating amid chaos: Nuclear strategy

Understanding the Middle East chaos at its core

Facing "abnormal" enemies

Bernie Sanders, Israel, and the law of war

A time for truth: Israel, "Palestine" and the US elections

Israel's nuclear strategy: The rationality of pretended irrationality

Still makes no sense: Supporting "Palestine" while opposing Jihad

Israel and Brussels: The "merely wounded" in terror bombings

Forging Israel's strategic posture: simple but still difficult

Nuclear war or nuclear peace? Israel's post-Iran Pact options

Falling Towers

Why Oslo failed: Confronting "Peace Now"

Inviting an Endless Terror

Chaos and 2nd Cold War, Part II: Israel's Nuclear Strategy

Chaos and 2nd Cold War, Part I: Israel's Nuclear Strategy

Israel Facing Iran on its Own