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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Louis Rene Beres 316 Archived Articles Found in Louis Rene Beres Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Sep 01 2010 Still No 'Peace Process' For Israel (Part I) By Louis René Beres The more things change, the more they remain the same. From its imperiled beginnings, from the plainly one-sided inception of Oslo, the so-called "Middle East Peace Process" never gave Israel a chance. Widely animated by a distinctly lascivious Arab will to exploit the agreement in order to hasten Israel's incremental elimination, a Final Solution to the Israel Question, it remains, even today, little more than an enemy Trojan Horse. Ironically, from the standpoint of current U.S. and other national foreign policies, the "Peace Process" is now routinely characterized as a road map. Read Article 2) Posted Aug 26 2010 Preserving Israel At The Eleventh Hour: Nuclear Deterrence, Enemy Rationality and 'Palestine' By Louis René Beres Faced with the daunting prospect of seemingly endless terrorism, and with staggering global opposition to any of its essential and altogether permissible forms of self-defense, Israel now requires a complex and capable counter-terrorism strategy merely to survive. Simultaneously, the major threats to Israel's physical survival lie in certain mass-destruction (biological and/or nuclear) attacks by enemy states. Ultimately, therefore, the Jewish State's actual continuance rests upon even more than successful counter-terrorism. It rests also upon the inherently fragile and unpredictable foundations of nuclear deterrence. Read Article 3) Posted Aug 19 2010 A New Military Reality: Suffering Existential Harms Without Losing A War By Louis Rene Beres It is not always easy, in studying world politics, to know when power is really "powerful," and when weakness is really "weak." Oddly enough, some states that are presumably very powerful in measurable military terms may occasionally have to yield to others that seemingly lack power altogether. Even more ironically, in the case of Israel versus Hamas, the presumably powerful state is increasingly at the mercy of a brutal criminal organization that is substantially less autonomous than a truly sovereign state, and that has no armed forces even worth mentioning. Read Article 4) Posted Aug 11 2010 Justifying An Israeli Preemption Against Iran Under International Law: OSIRAQ And 'Anticipatory Self-Defense' By Prof. Louis René Beres and COL. (IDF/ Res.) Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto The following article by Professor Beres (U.S.A.) and Colonel (Israel Defense Forces) Tsiddon-Chatto was originally published more than three years ago in The Jewish Press. (Published originally on April 18, 2007.) Its informed warnings and predictions concerning Iranian nuclearization have now been proven correct. Read Article 5) Posted Aug 04 2010 The Pianist (Part II) By Louis Rene Beres War, terrorism and genocide are not mutually exclusive. Now, as certain portions of the Arab/Islamic world openly declare genocidal intentions against Israel (a war of extermination is plainly a genocidal war under international law), some progressive Jews are proudly leading various rallies and/or publications for peace - a peace that could only be fashioned upon a new generation of Jewish corpses. Here, in the United States, and regrettably, also in Israel, Jewish university professors are all-too typically the leaders in organized campus protests (1) against an alleged Israeli "occupation," and (2) for expanded Palestinian "rights." Read Article 6) Posted Jul 28 2010 The Pianist (Part I) By Louis Rene Beres On its surface, The Pianist is "merely" the true tale of a great Jewish musician (Wladyslaw Szpilman) caught up in the unfathomable depths of Nazi occupation and terror. More profoundly, of course, it is a disturbing visual microcosm of the generic human struggle between good and evil, a titanic struggle that is sometimes utterly clear, but at other times also distressingly "gray." The Nazis in Poland were monsters, to be sure, but what are we to say about the others, including many Jews, who became actual and collaborative perpetrators in every corner of the Holocaust Kingdom? What pertinent lessons can we learn from this 2002 film for Jewish, and especially Israeli, preservation in our own perilous time? Read Article 7) Posted Jul 21 2010 A Linkage Still Unrecognized: Palestinian Statehood and Jihadist Terror By Louis Rene Beres In these pages, I have written occasionally about dangerous cartographies. Oddly, even now, the so-called road map to peace will not go away quietly. If implemented, President Barack Obama's plan for a "Two-State Solution" in the Middle East will sorely degrade both U.S. and Israeli security. This is because the twisted roadmap to Palestinian statehood still misses a decidedly crucial understanding:Jihadist terror has little to do with territory or politics or military strategy or tactics. In essence, it is a ritualistic and longstanding expression of religious sacrifice. Read Article 8) Posted Jul 15 2010 Empowering Weakness; Weakening Power: Hidden Meanings Of Israeli-Palestinian Relations By Louis Rene Beres By every tangible military and economic standard, Israel is more powerful than its Palestinian foes. Nonetheless, from time to time, there are stark and compelling reminders in world politics that the powerful can sometimes be weak, and that the weak can sometimes be powerful. For example, despite its evident superiority in arms, Israel is periodically at the mercy of Palestinian rockets fired into civilian areas from Gaza. Read Article 9) Posted Jul 07 2010 Human, All Too Human: To Survive, We Need To Look Behind The News By Louis Rene Beres We Jews are already accustomed to irony, but - only rarely - does the subject in question rise to the daunting level of human survival. Here, however, is one of those rare subjects. Considering it carefully, we can begin to appreciate the obligation to look at our world with genuinely larger questions in mind. In other words, we should quickly begin to recognize a distinct imperative to look behind the news. Read Article 10) Posted Jun 30 2010 Facing A Changed Game: The 'Obama Doctrine' And Israeli Strategic Planning By Louis Rene Beres The high-minded centerpiece of Barack Obama's still-emerging strategic doctrine is "a world free of nuclear weapons." Although plainly misconceived -this presidential policy expectation is both unattainable and undesirable- Israel can hardly ignore it. On the contrary, planners in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv will now have to self-consciously fashion and possibly reconcile Israel's own strategic doctrine with the new American ideas. Read Article 11) Posted Jun 23 2010 Remaining 'Worthy Of Our Role': History, Responsibility, Community (Part II) By Louis Rene Beres We must immediately recognize, and reveal widely, that there is no "cycle of violence" in the Middle East, only intermittent Arab/Islamic terror followed by indispensable Israeli counter-terror. If the Palestinian terrorists were to simply and unconditionally stop their murderous attacks on unprotected civilians, Israelis would never lift another hand against them. It's that simple. Read Article 12) Posted Jun 16 2010 Remaining 'Worthy of Our Role': History, Responsibility, Community (Part I) By Louis Rene Beres "May we be worthy of our role." So ends the author's dedication of The Jewish Revolution (1971) to his son, Aryeh. Scholar, writer and active Zionist, Israel Eldad warned the Jewish People against relying upon others to defend them. Boldly asserting it was the consistent miscalculations of "Jewish diplomacy" that had hastened the genocidal fate of millions during the Holocaust, Eldad's great wisdom underscores the terrible folly of still-ongoing Israeli concessions for peace. Read Article 13) Posted Jun 09 2010 Stopping The Gaza Flotilla: A Wider Look Behind The News By Louis Rene Beres Current news about Israel's interdiction of the Gaza flotilla centers entirely on more or less pertinent operational and legal details. It is also important, however, to look beyond this particular event and toward the more critical underlying issue of a Palestinian state. To be sure, once such a state was established, the tragic cycle of anti-Israel terrorism, Israeli blockade and Palestinian counter-blockade would only accelerate. Read Article 14) Posted Jun 02 2010 Resurrecting Nonsense: Why There Is Still No 'Cycle of Violence' Between Israel and Palestinians By Louis Rene Beres Back during the presidential election campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama made repeated reference to a "cycle of violence" in the Middle East. Although, thankfully, he no longer uses this particularly inappropriate term in describing ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, now President Obama continues to allege a basic symmetry between the warring parties. These disturbing allegations, whether explicit or couched in innuendo, are wrong and troubling. They encourage U.S. policies that can only revive and exacerbate Arab violence. Read Article 15) Posted May 26 2010 When The "Ceremony Of Innocence Is Drowned": Israel's Vulnerability To Worldwide Anarchy By Louis Rene Beres William Butler Yeats, the great Irish poet, wrote prophetically of a time in which "the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned." Here he revealed what still seems to elude historians, diplomats and scholars: In the not-too-distant future, there will come a moment in which there will be no safety in treaties or in armaments, no help from "civilization," no counsel from public authority, and no rescue from science. Read Article 16) Posted May 17 2010 The Waste Land: Israel And Iran After Nuclear War By Louis Rene Beres Credo quia absurdum. "I believe because it is absurd." It is a term that I have used often here in my weekly column, but never more meaningfully than today. Now, years after the international community first blathered vainly about Iranian intentions, Tehran marches unhindered to full and final nuclear weapons status Read Article 17) Posted May 12 2010 Kafka In Washington: Deceptive Cartographies And Hidden Meanings By Louis Rene Beres Many people prowl round Mount Sinai. Their speech is blurred, either they are garrulous or they shout or they are taciturn. But none of them comes straight down a broad, newly made, smooth road that does its own part in making one's strides long and swifter. Franz Kafka, Mount Sinai Read Article 18) Posted May 05 2010 *Jihadist End of the World Imaginings: Prologue To Nuclear War In The Middle East?* Part II By Louis Rene Beres After absorbing any enemy nuclear aggression, Israel would certainly respond with a nuclear retaliatory strike. Although nothing is publicly known about Israel's precise targeting doctrine, such a reprisal would likely be launched against the aggressor's capital city and/or against similarly high-value urban targets. There would be absolutely no assurances, in response to this sort of aggression, that Israel would limit itself to striking back against exclusively military targets. Read Article 19) Posted Apr 28 2010 Jihadist End Of The World Imaginings: Prologue To Nuclear War In The Middle East? (Part I) By Louis René Beres** There is a widely unrecognized but still-meaningful irony in the continuing saga of Iranian nuclearization.From the standpoint of President Ahmadinejad and his clerical masters in Tehran, any prospect of hastening the Shiite apocalypse should naturally be welcomed. In the United States and Israel, on the other hand, any conscious encouragement of a Final Battle between "Good" and"Evil"must always be strenuously rejected. Read Article 20) Posted Apr 21 2010 When The Ship Of State Comes Apart - On Horatian Metaphor: Israel, Iran and "Palestine" By Louis René Beres Horace was born in 65 BCE and died in 8 BCE. His ode (I, 14) on the "ship of state" pertains to ancient Rome, but it might just as well refer to Israel after it concedes to "livewith a nuclear Iran," and also to "live with Palestine." The more or less concurrent arrival of (1) Iranian nuclear weapons, and (2) an independent Palestinian state, could have an intolerable effect upon Israel. Indeed, this injurious interactive outcome - known technically in science, medicine and engineering as synergistic- would likely be far greater than the simple sum of these two discrete parts. Read Article 316 Archived Articles Found in Louis Rene Beres Next 20 Articles >
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