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Reut Publishes Flotilla Report in English

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , , on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Reut Institute published today the English version of its report on the May 31st Gaza Flotilla. The report analyzes the strategic significance and systemic context of the incident and offers recommendations on how to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

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Synchronized victories: Political-diplomatic arena on the security agenda

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, Home Front, National Security, tagged , , , , , , on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Why would the IDF purposefully expose a wealth of valuable intelligence about Hezbollah military operations in Lebanon? The answer, it seems, lies in a growing recognition that, in the current reality, achieving military victory is insufficient in attaining Israel’s security.

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UN vs. Israel’s Judicial System: Sovereign institution under international review

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on July 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Question: Under what circumstances are the fundamental institutions of a sovereign democratic state subject to the review and judgment of the international community? Answer: When the legitimacy of the state in question’s political model is in doubt.

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ReView: Eroding Israel’s Legitimacy in the International Arena

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , , , , on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Reut ReViews map a collection of events that constitute a trend, which may render an element of a policy of the governmen t irrelevant. Israel is facing a dramatic assault on the very legitimacy of its existence as a Jewish and democratic state. The groups promoting this delegitimacy aim to isolate Israel and ultimately turn [...]

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Reut and Fundamental Delegitimacy in the Media

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In the past couple of weeks, several articles have been published which discuss Reut’s current project on identifying the threat of fundamental delegitimacy against Israel and creating a conceptual framework to deal with it.

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Fighting Lawfare: Is Greater International Engagement the Answer?

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Speaking at a Legal Conference in Jerusalem, Aharon Barak recommended that Israel join the International Criminal Court at The Hague arguing that despite the risk that IDF soldiers and officers (and even Israeli politicians) may be brought to trial, Israel will benefit from its participation in the court despite.

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Legal Aid: Hamas’ Role in Livni Arrest Warrant and Beyond

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In analyzing the encroaching threat posed by efforts to delegitimize Israel globally, Reut’s political-security team is examining dynamics connected to what we are loosely referring to as an “unholy alliance.” This unholy alliance comprises elements of the extreme political Left which work in various levels of coordination with Islamist organizations. The concern is that their [...]

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Legal Counter-Engagement: A Proposed Israeli Response to the Legal Battle for Israel’s Legitimacy

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Campaigns to delegitimize Israel politically in the global arena have increasingly manifested on the legal front, very recently exemplified by a London court issuing an arrest warrant against former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. In order to address this threat, Simon Weisenthal Center’s Director for International Relations Shimon Samuels suggests going on the offensive.

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Israel Needs a Political Firewall vs. Basic Delegitimacy

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In a recently published op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, I argue that the recent assaults on Israel’s legitimacy threaten to push Israel towards the status of a pariah state. These assaults are being promoted by a coalition of pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic groups that have made the fundamental delegitimization of Israel their main rallying cry. [...]

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Icebergs Threatening to Sink Israel’s Legitimacy

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Writing in Ha’aretz, Ari Shavit explores the fundamental threat facing Israel based on challenges to its legitimacy. He illustrates a series of “icebergs” punctuating seemingly still waters: the Goldstone Report, the Turkish withdrawal from the joint NATO exercise, European attempts to try IDF officers for war crimes, boycotts of Israeli products and institutions, and the [...]

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