Prof. Louis Rene Beres

The futility of Israeli concessions

Why an Israeli agreement on ceasefire would never be honored by its Jihadist foes. Opinion.

Undermining justice:

Israel-Hamas ceasefire would breach international law

International law has precise form and content. It cannot be invented and reinvented by terror groups. Such law does not support the hope-based adoption of cease-fire agreements between sovereign states and criminal gangs.

Still overlooked connections: Israel, "Palestine" and regional nuclear war

A “Two-State Solution” would enlarge not “only” the jihadist terror threat to Israel (conventional and unconventional), but also prospects for major regional war. In these existential security matters, Israel doesn’t need more common sense. It needs disciplined and dialectical thought. Opinion.

Expecting an attack

Israel's law-based obligation to prevent Iranian nuclear weapons. Opinion.

Madness, sanity, nuclear war and EMP in the Middle East

For Israel, the only successful outcome of military conflict with Iran would be a tangible reduction of Iranian nuclear war fighting capabilities and intentions. Op-ed.

Human foundations of Jihad terrorism

The jihadist’s “heroic armed struggle” is never about geo-political settlements or compromises. It is always about God, immortality and a defiling vision of “ecstasy.” Opinion.

Israel, war, and the death of reason

Must the virtuous state accept barbarism as its sine qua non to “stay alive”? Opinion.

Primal hatreds, not geo-politics, drive Israel's enemies

Iran-backed Hamas (Sunni) and Hezbollah (Shiite) crimes have nothing to do with achieving Palestinian Arab sovereignty or statehood. For these terror-criminals, what is being sought is the sheer ecstasy of primal human barbarism. Opinion.

'Necessary sacrifices' - Hamas leader's harsh decree, but only for others

How should one correctly identify a Hamas leader’s call for “necessary sacrifices” when the human subjects of his harsh decree do not include himself? Sinwar’s call represents a cry of incomparable cowardice. Opinion.

True meanings of Palestinian Statehood

Institutionalized criminal defilement is the most accurate description of the attempts to recognize a Palestinian state. Op-ed.

Existential conflict: Dialectics of an Israel-Iran nuclear war

In a worst case scenario, Israel would fail to prevent a nuclear Iran, and Iran would become the first adversary to fire its nuclear weapons. Opinion.

The "Biden Effect"

Israel "escalation dominance" and nuclear war with Iran. Three catastrophic scenarios have now been rendered more likely by US President Joe Biden’s embargo on terror-fighting weapons to Israel. Opinion.

Israel's nuclear doctrine after Iran's aggression

Ambiguity or openness? Opinion.

Israel's survival 'in time'

Looking behind the news. Unless Israel can understand that a nuclear Iran should be prevented at almost all conceivable costs, Israel will sometime be defeated by time. Opinion.

ATTACK FROM IRAN:

A law-based opportunity for Israel to prevent Iranian nuclear weapons

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: Israel's 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 Arab 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.

Belief, belonging and immortality: true 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.

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.

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

What, exactly, were the Palestinian Arabs trying to "liberate?" 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 is acting 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.

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.

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