Author: David M. Weinberg / Political Geography: Palestine

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 04-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: Despite military threats and other challenges, the State of Israel is winning on all fronts. Israel is stronger and healthier than all its enemies combined.
Topic:: Defense Policy, Military Strategy, Conflict, and Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 05-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: What is Western support for “Israel’s right to exist within secure and recognized borders” worth if those borders cannot be defended?
Topic:: Territorial Disputes, Minorities, Discrimination, and Borders
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, Palestine, and Gaza

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 05-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: Israel should be preparing for a paradigm change with regard to administration of the territories; a move beyond rotten reliance on Fatah leadership and the creaky two-state construct.
Topic:: Diplomacy, Territorial Disputes, Peace, Anti-Semitism, and Palestinian Authority
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 07-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: The Clinton-Obama parameters haven’t worked – not for 25 years of peacemaking efforts since Oslo. They have lead to deadlock and much suffering. Let’s give the Trump team credit for taking a fresh look at what is safe, wise, fair and realistic in today’s Israeli-Palestinian reality.
Topic:: Diplomacy, International Cooperation, Territorial Disputes, Leadership, Borders, and Peace
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, Palestine, North America, and United States of America

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 08-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: In pursuit of peace, it’s high-time that the PLO be showered with the “tough love” once reserved uniquely for Israel. And Israel’s defense establishment should get behind the ditch UNRWA discourse.
Topic:: Defense Policy, Diplomacy, Military Strategy, Peace, and Palestinian Authority
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 10-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: The INSS unilateral disengagement plan is neither new nor logical.
Topic:: Diplomacy, Regional Cooperation, Territorial Disputes, and Peace
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 10-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: Reducing enemy capabilities and ambitions in Gaza requires Israeli military readiness and government willingness to use force intermittently, while maintaining a healthy and resilient Israeli home front.
Topic:: Science and Technology, Terrorism, Military Strategy, Conflict, and Hamas
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, Palestine, and Gaza

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 10-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: The Temple Mount Sifting Project has turned the Wakf’s criminal dump of the most sensitive and valuable archaeological dirt on the globe – a national disgrace – into a national treasure. Funding the project is the least the government can do as penance for its long-standing malfeasance in countering Palestinian-Islamic aggression against Jewish history in Jerusalem and Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount.
Topic:: Sovereignty, Territorial Disputes, Conflict, and Archaeology
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 10-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: Despite Palestinian terrorism and Orthodox “control” of the site, more than one million Jewish pilgrims flocked to Jerusalem’s Western Wall during the High Holiday period. So let’s keep Kotel “crises” in perspective.
Topic:: Religion, Territorial Disputes, and Unity
Political Geography:: Israel, Palestine, and Jerusalem

Author:: David M. Weinberg
Publication Date:: 10-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
Abstract:: By tabling creative coexistence proposals, pushing core issues to the top of the agenda, suggesting innovative alternatives to the problematic two-state paradigm, and articulating red lines that are clear and broad.
Topic:: Diplomacy, Territorial Disputes, Conflict, and Peace
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

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