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Louis Rene Beres

Obama's ‘Nuclear Weapons-Free World’: Some Implications For Israel

By Louis Rene Beres

President Obama continues to favor the creation of a "nuclear weapons-free world." This explicit preference is more than naive; it is also undesirable in principle. For Israel, in particular, Obama's solution could likely open the doors to unendurable enemy aggressions. However unintended, therefore, it could become an utterly Final Solution.

Louis Rene Beres

Global Denuclearization And Israel's Survival (Fourth of Four Parts)

By Louis Rene Beres

It would be unreasonable for Israel to draw any comfort from an argument that Iranian intentions are effectively harmless. Rather, such intentions could impact capabilities decisively over time. Backed by appropriate nuclear weapons, preemption options must somehow remain open and viable to Israel, augmented, of course, by appropriate and complementary plans for cyber-defense and cyber-warfare.

IDF & Security / Global / News Briefs

Israeli Spy Drones Going After Mexican Drug Cartels

By Jacob Edelist

In January The Marker reported that Elbit Systems Ltd., an Israel-based international defense electronics company had won a contract worth $50 million to supply the unmanned drone Hermes 900 to an unknown state on the American continent. Now Aviation Weekly reveals it must be the Mexican government.

Analysis

President Obama and the 'Responsibility to Protect'

By Shoshana Bryen

If Syria and Egypt have nothing to fear from the President of the United States, what will Iran fear?

Louis Rene Beres

Global Denuclearization And Israel's Survival (Third of Four Parts)

By Louis Rene Beres

For forty years I have studied the stunningly complex problem of enemy rationality, especially in certain earlier published writings concerning the particular nuclear threat from Iran.

Israel / Global

Israel's Letter to UN Regarding Gaza Rocket Attacks

By Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ambassador Haim Waxman: "In previous letters . . . we warned of the dangers of inaction by the international community. We alerted the Council that these attacks had the potential to ignite a serious escalation of the conflict, which could affect the entire region. The events of the last two days have proven the danger of silence on behalf of the international community at large, and the Security Council, in particular."

Israel / Global / News Briefs

All Time Record High for Israel Tourism in February

By Tibbi Singer

The month of February 2012 has broken records in the tourism industry in Israel, with 232,000 visitor arrivals, 6% more than the same month last year, and an increase of 4% compared to February 2010, which marked the previous record. Out of 232,000 arrivals, 200,000 were tourist entries, another all-time record high.

Analysis

Time to Kick the Palestinian Can?

By Dr. Aaron Lerner

Would it be prudent for Israel to launch now the kind of unilateral initiative proposed by former Yesha Council Director Naftali Bennett, or is it best to leave well enough alone?

Louis Rene Beres

Global Denuclearization And Israel's Survival (Second of Four Parts)

By Louis Rene Beres

As only a distinctly last resort, Israel needs nuclear weapons for nuclear war fighting.

Global

Sen. McCain Urges US to Take Lead in Airstrikes Against Assad Regime

By Solomon Burke

The Senator's position is in stark contrast to the current policy of the Obama administration, which seeks to solve the year-old crisis through diplomatic isolation and a sanctions regime intended to prod Assad into stepping down.

News Briefs

Illinois Republican Candidate for Congress Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Oak Lawn Patch reported that Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler's birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District. "As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international […]

Louis Rene Beres

Global Denuclearization And Israel's Survival (First of Four Parts)

By Louis Rene Beres

US President Barack Obama's sentiments notwithstanding, nuclear arms are not per se destabilizing or "warmongering." They are not necessarily anti-peace. Rather, in certain identifiably volatile circumstances, nuclear weapons can actually be indispensable to the avoidance of catastrophic war.

Middle East / Levant / Global / News Briefs

Choked: The EU Is Cutting Iran off SWIFT Operations

By Jewish Press News Desk

The AP reported that the European Union is working on regulations that would shut out Iran's banks from the financial clearinghouse SWIFT, which is used by virtually every country in the world. The move is part of an unprecedented escalation of economic pressure by the United States and the EU meant to halt Iran's suspected […]

Louis Rene Beres

Israel And A Palestinian State: A Look Behind The News (Second of Two Parts)

By Louis Rene Beres

In the strict Islamic view, not merely in the more narrowly Jihadi or Islamist perspectives, Israel must be seen as the individual Jew in macrocosm. The Jewish state must be despised on account of this relationship – that is, because of the allegedly “innate evil” of each individual Jew.

Analysis

What's In A Name? The Status of the Jewish Quarter

By dvora

In this highly politicized era, where every time Israel begins construction on any part of Jerusalem beyond the 1967 green line, it’s worth asking why the Jewish Quarter has been spared the same level of international criticism.

Parsha

The Wisdom within the Law

By Rav Yehuda Hakohen

The Jewish nation has no such concept as “religion” in the formal sense of the term, as we reject the notion of anything lying outside the realm of HaShem. It is Israel’s mission to elevate every sphere of Creation by infusing it with kedusha and bringing it to its highest potential in our world.

Louis Rene Beres

Israel And A Palestinian State: A Look Behind The News (First of Two Parts)

By Louis Rene Beres

International law is not a suicide pact. Indisputably, Israel has a peremptory right to remain alive. It was entirely proper for Netanyahu to have previously opposed a Palestinian state in any form. Both Fatah and Hamas still see all of Israel as part of "Palestine."

Analysis

Iran-Syria Axis Strengthens as Isolation Grows

By Rafi Harkham

The intensified cooperation between Iran and Syria reflects their understanding that Iran's nuclear ambitions and the unrest in Syria are linked: Western nations' arming of the Syrian Opposition would cause a serious rift with Russia and China at a time when their consensus is crucial to constraining Iran's nuclear program.

News Briefs

PA to Ask Arab League to Convene Peace Conference

By Jewish Press Staff

PA President Mahmoud Abbas will ask the Arab League to hold a peace conference.

News Briefs

Taiwan Agrees to Cut Iran Oil Imports

By Jewish Press Staff

Iran is one of Taiwan's top sources of crude oil, at 6.8% of total imports.

Louis Rene Beres

Thinking The Worst: Israel’s Best Path To Survival

By Louis Rene Beres

Jorge Luis Borges, the very special Argentine writer and philosopher, sometimes identified himself as a Jew. Although lacking any apparent basis in halacha, he clearly felt himself to be a kindred spirit: “Many a time I think of myself as a Jew,” he is quoted in Willis Barnstone’s, Borges at Eighty: Conversations (1982), “but I wonder whether I have the right to think so. It may be wishful thinking.”

News Briefs

US: Hamas-Fatah Agreement an 'Internal Matter'

By Jewish Press Staff

State Department spokeswoman reiterates that any Palestinian government must abide by the international agreements and norms that the Quartet had laid out.

Louis Rene Beres

After Bin Laden: Assassination, Terrorism, War and International Law (Second of Two Parts)

By Louis Rene Beres

“Everything in this world exudes crime,” says Baudelaire, “the newspapers, the walls, and the face of man.” But this “face” does not belong solely to what classic seventeenth-century international law scholar Hugo Grotius called “men of deplorable wickedness.”

News Briefs

UN Secretary General Urges Iran to Come Clean

By Jewish Press Staff

Comments come in joint press conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres.

News Briefs

Congress Considering Cut Aid to Egypt

By Jewish Press Staff

Egypt's military receives $1.3 billion a year from the US.

News Briefs

PM Netanyahu Considering Rail Link For Asia-Europe Trade Route

By Jewish Press Staff

Netanyahu: "The Eilat Railway will be a passenger railway with a travel time of two hours" from Tel Aviv.

Louis Rene Beres

Post-Bin Laden: Terror, War and Int'l Law (Part 1)

By Louis Rene Beres

Everyone who has taught international law, or written about it, knows that the idea of crisis in actually inherent in the subject. More than anything else, this crisis, this continuing or protracted dilemma, is one of efficacy, of effectiveness.

Louis Rene Beres

Justifying Israeli Preemption Against Iran Under International Law

By Louis Rene Beres

The following article by Professor Beres and Colonel (Israel Defense Forces) Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto was originally published in the April 18, 2007 issue of The Jewish Press. Its warnings and predictions concerning a nuclear Iran have been proven unassailable.

Middle East / Levant

EU Gets Tough On Iran With Planned Oil Embargo

By Sam Ser

European foreign ministers declared their countries’ intent to embargo oil from the Islamic Republic, beginning as early as July, and freeze the assets of Iran’s central bank

News Briefs

Cyber Attacks UPDATE: Israeli Banks Block Int'l Access to Websites

By Jewish Press Staff

Move follows the downing of El Al and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange websites by anti-Israel hackers.

News Briefs

Hamas PM to Visit Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Ismail Haniyeh also expected to visit Qatar, other Muslim countries.

Louis Rene Beres

Empathy, Suffering, And Human Survival: A Jewish Perspective

By Louis Rene Beres

According to ancient Jewish tradition, one that certain Talmudists trace back to the time of Isaiah, the world rests upon thirty-six just men, the Lamed-Vav tzaddikim.

News Briefs

High Court of Justice: Residents of Judea & Samaria Can Serve on Supreme Court

By Jewish Press Staff

Petition brought by Yesh Gvul against appointment of Sohlberg rejected.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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