Jerusalem Issue Briefs

Presentations by top-level political and military experts for the diplomatic corps and the foreign press, published through the Institute for Contemporary Affairs.

Can Israel and the Palestinian Authority Continue to Cooperate?

September 19, 2023 | Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

Since 1994, Israeli governments have supported the PA

Would Judicial Reforms in Israel Open Up the Israeli Military to Charges of War Crimes?

August 27, 2023 | Amb. Alan Baker, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

Attempts to link Israel’s proposed judicial reform and the International Criminal Court principle of complementarity indicate a lack of understanding of both the ICC Statute and the proposed reform.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Jenin, Psychological Warfare, and the West’s Perceptual Failure

August 23, 2023 | Aviram Balleishe, Jerusalem Center - Iran Desk

The Iranian support for Jenin’s fighters must be exposed

Civilian Casualties in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Compared to Other Conflicts Involving Western Forces

August 13, 2023 | Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

“Scholars, Be Careful with Your Words” – Psychological Warfare in the Age of Social Media and Political Discord

August 10, 2023 | Dr. Irwin J. Mansdorf

The Urgency for the UK and EU to Proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)

June 27, 2023 | Dan Diker

Legal Perspectives on Israel’s Legal Rights to Rescind Parts of Its 2005 Disengagement Law

March 23, 2023 | Amb. Alan Baker, Lenny Ben-David

Palestinian Teenage Terror – Inherently Illegal, But Does Anyone Care?

March 9, 2023 | Amb. Alan Baker

The “Two-State Solution” and the Arab Palestinians: Partition or Politicide?

February 16, 2023 | Joel Fishman

In Spite of Growing Frustration with Iran, the West Creates a Problematic, De Facto Arrangement with Tehran

January 17, 2023 | Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser

Reenergizing the Israel-Africa Strategic Partnership

November 27, 2022 | Dr. Yechiel M. Leiter

The Problem with Lapid’s Weak Conditions for Establishing a Palestinian State

October 7, 2022 | Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser

Mahmoud Abbas’ “50 Holocausts” Remarks Are Part of the Palestinian Narrative

August 30, 2022 | Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser

The Discriminatory “Status Quo” on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: An International Law Viewpoint

August 10, 2022 | Amb. Alan Baker

The UN Human Rights Council’s “Commission of Inquiry” Goes Openly Antisemitic

August 1, 2022 | Prof. Anne Bayefsky