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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Louis Rene Beres 378 Archived Articles Found in Louis Rene Beres Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Nov 09 2011 Israel And Its Enemies: Future Wars And Forceful Options (First of Three Parts) By Louis René Beres As the continuing flow of new missiles to Iran reveals, the Bush administration [Editors Note: This refers to first President Bush] remains committed to misconceived policies in the Middle East. Even if Israel were to yield West Bank and Gaza to create a new state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, the government in Tehran would persist in its planned aggressions against the Jewish state. Altogether unconcerned with the fate of the Palestinians, this government can be satisfied only by Israel's disappearance. Read Article 2) Posted Nov 02 2011 Releasing Terrorists: Some Underlying Issues By Louis René Beres Once again an Israeli prime minister has released large numbers of Palestinian terrorists in exchange for a single Jew. And yet again some of the key terrorists set free have Israeli blood on their hands. Lots of blood. Read Article 3) Posted Oct 26 2011 Learning From The Past: Some Current Implications Of An Earlier Indifference To Israel's Basic Rights Under International Law By Louis René Beres At a moment when Israel is under new daily assaults from the international community, especially from the Palestinian Authority and its oddly eager mentors at the United Nations, it is worth noting that there is a discernible and continuous pattern here of legal double-standards. No matter how often Israel is victimized by instances of Palestinian terrorism, Jerusalem's most basic rights under international law are flagrantly disregarded. Although core documents in jurisprudence refer hopefully and optimistically to "general principles of law recognized by civilized nations," the actual orientation of states toward Israel has generally been to punish the innocent victims, and reward the terrorist. Read Article 4) Posted Oct 18 2011 Hidden Truths, Deeper Meanings And Jewish Endurance In The Modern World By Louis René Beres Israel, in the fashion of every nation, positively shrinks from annihilation. How could it be otherwise? Read Article 5) Posted Oct 16 2011 Israel and Palestine: Critical Intersections of Law and Strategy (Part II) By Louis René Beres Generally, the Israeli is despised in the Islamic world because he or she is a Jew, a condition of presumed infirmity that can never be "remedied." Consider the following facts: Read Article 6) Posted Oct 05 2011 *Israel And Palestine: Critical Intersections of Law and Strategy* (Part I) By Louis René Beres Oddly enough, even Shimon Peres, the unrelenting Israeli champion of a "two state solution" in the Middle East, initially identified Palestinian statehood as an existential threat to Israel. In his book, Tomorrow is Now (1978), Peres had warned: "The establishment of such a state means the inflow of combat-ready Palestinian forces into Judea and Samaria (West Bank); this force, together with the local youth, will double itself in a short time. It will not be short of weapons or other military equipment, and in a short space of time, an infrastructure for waging war will be set up in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip . In time of war, the frontiers of the Palestinian state will constitute an excellent staging point for mobile forces to mount attacks on infrastructure installations vital for Israel's existence ." Read Article 7) Posted Sep 27 2011 Obama, Netanyahu And Palestine: A Partnership In Futility And Dishonor By Louis René Beres Bettelheim, like the Greek poet Homer, understands that the force that does not kill, that does not kill just yet, can turn a human being into stone, into a thing, even while it is still alive. Merely hanging ominously over the head of the vulnerable creature it can choose to kill at any moment, poised lasciviously to destroy breath in what it has somehow "graciously" allowed, if only for a few more moments, to breathe; this force indelicately mocks the fragile life it intends to consume. Read Article 8) Posted Sep 21 2011 Acknowledging National Mortality: Israel's Ironic Imperative By Louis René Beres Jorge Luis Borges, the very special Argentine writer and philosopher, sometimes quite happily identified himself as a sort of Jew. Although lacking any apparent basis in halacha, he nonetheless felt himself to be a deeply 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." Read Article 9) Posted Sep 14 2011 History, Crowds, And The Slow Death Of America By Louis René Beres Sometimes, as I have asserted from time to time in this column, seeing requires distance. Now, suffocating daily in political and economic rants from both the Right and the Left, we Americans must promptly confront a critical need to look beyond the historical moment, to seek both meaning and truth behind the news. There, suitably distant from the endlessly adrenalized jumble of current fears and concerns, we could finally understand the timeless struggle of individual against mass, of the singular person against the "crowd." Read Article 10) Posted Sep 07 2011 Declaring 'Palestine' In The United Nations: Still-Hidden Risks of Mega Terror And Nuclear War By Louis René Beres** Declaring Palestine. It is a core issue for Israel that has come up in my columns before. But now, the enemy's operational tactics have been changed and fine-tuned. This month, Palestinian Authority leaders will seek formal creation of their independent state via the "good offices" of the United Nations. Read Article 11) Posted Aug 31 2011 War, Terror And Revolution: Israel's Special Vulnerability to Chaos (Part II) By Louis René Beres For Israel, the prime inheritor of Genesis, an expanding global chaos portends a very unusual, and also ironic, kind of fragility. A relentlessly beleaguered microstate, and always the individual Jew writ large, Israel could become the principal victim of international disorder. In view of the exceptionally far-reaching interrelatedness of all world politics, this could be true even if the actual precipitating events of war and terror would occur elsewhere. Read Article 12) Posted Aug 25 2011 War, Terror And Revolution: Israel's Special Vulnerability to Chaos (Part I) By Louis René Beres Continuing turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa signals important and potentially catastrophic transformations. For Israel, the greatest danger stems from the interpenetrating and largely unpredictable effects of war, terrorism and revolution in the region. In essence, these plainly destabilizing effects could spawn an unprecedented and historically unique kind of chaos. Read Article 13) Posted Aug 17 2011 Israel, Egypt And Palestinian 'Demilitarization': Some Unseen Perils Of Treaty Law By Louis René Beres I am a professor of international law. In my columns, therefore, I focus from time to time on distinctly legal aspects of Israel's foreign relations. Nonetheless, I am always deeply attentive to examining these particular aspects within a genuinely realistic geopolitical or geostrategic context. Read Article 14) Posted Aug 10 2011 After Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation The Endless Futility Of Israel's 'Peace Process' (Conclusion) By Louis René Beres When on October 6, 1973, Egyptian and Syrian surprise attacks came dangerously close to jeopardizing Israel's survival, it was because of a monumental intelligence failure. Similarly, on January 18, 1991, the scream of air-raid sirens could be heard in every corner of Israel. The Iraqi Scuds that slammed through Tel Aviv and Haifa neighborhoods had caught the country, in the words of a former Israeli intelligence chief, "with its pants down." In the latter case, the only element that saved Israel was Iraq's notably ineffectual warheads. If they had not been so ineffectual, Israel could have suffered profoundly, if not existentially. Read Article 15) Posted Aug 03 2011 After Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation The Endless Futility Of Israel's 'Peace Process' (Fourth Of Five Parts) By Louis René Beres Israel's persisting legal obligation to abrogate the Oslo Accords, as we have seen, stemmed from certain peremptory expectations of international law. Israel, however, also has substantial rights of abrogation here that bind its behavior apart from any such expectations. These particular rights derive from the basic doctrine of Rebus sic stantibus. Read Article 16) Posted Jul 27 2011 After Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: The Endless Futility Of Israel's Peace Process (Third of Five Parts) By Louis René Beres The explicit application of codified restrictions of the laws of war to noninternational-armed conflicts dates back only as far as the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. Recalling, however, that more than treaties and conventions comprise the laws of war, it is also clear that the obligations of jus in bello (justice in war) comprise part of "the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations," and bind all categories of belligerents. Indeed, the Hague Convention IV of 1907 declares, in broad terms, that in the absence of a precisely published set of guidelines in humanitarian international law concerning "unforeseen cases," the preconventional sources of international law govern all belligerency. Read Article 17) Posted Jul 20 2011 After Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: The Endless Futility Of Israel's 'Peace Process' (Second of Five Parts) By Louis René Beres The Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO have always been in violation of international law. Israel, therefore, has always been obligated to abrogate these non-treaty agreements. A comparable argument could be made regarding PLO/PA obligations, but this would make little jurisprudential sense in light of that non-state party's antecedent incapacity to enter into any equal legal arrangement with Israel. Read Article 18) Posted Jul 13 2011 After Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation The Endless Futility Of Israel's 'Peace Process' (A Column in Five Parts) By Louis René Beres At the end of April 2011, the Palestinian Authority, Fatah and Hamas reached a formal reconciliation and unification agreement. At that time, Hamas leader Mahmoud Azhar carefully noted the still-unchanged Hamas platform - "no recognition of Israel, and no negotiation." To be sure, this refractory position will become the de jure and/or de facto position of Fatah as well. Read Article 19) Posted Jul 07 2011 A Nuclear Iran What, Finally, Is To Be Done? (Second Of Two Parts) By Louis René Beres After suffering anyenemy nuclear aggression, Israel wouldcertainly respond with a nuclear retaliatory strike. Although nothing is publicly known about Israel's precise targeting doctrine, such a reprisal would most likely be launched against the aggressor's capital city, and/or against similarly high-value urban targets. Understandably, there would be no assurances, in response to this sort of plainly genocidal aggression, that Israel would in any way limit itself to striking back against exclusively military targets. Read Article 20) Posted Jun 29 2011 A Nuclear Iran: What, Finally Is To Be Done? (A Column in Two Parts) By Louis René Beres In Israel, a core disagreement has emerged between Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon and former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan. Read Article 378 Archived Articles Found in Louis Rene Beres Next 20 Articles >
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