Hillel Frisch is professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and former Senior Researcher in the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. Amongst his latest studies are “Rethinking the “Arab Spring”: Winners and Losers,” Middle East Quarterly (2021) “The Palestinian Military, Two Not One,” Oxford Handbook on Military and Security Studies (2021), “Jordan and Hamas,” Handbook on Jordan, 2019, and “Assessing Iranian Soft Power in the Arab World from Google Trends,” The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies 2019.
Google search patterns point to sustained erosion of both the Supreme Leader’s legitimacy and the regime’s clerical ideology and suggest that its collapse may arrive sooner rather than later
The more a violent actor is forced onto the defensive, the fewer resources it has to attack and endanger its enemy—Israeli soldiers. The anti-Hamas militias can serve as an effective means of achieving this important tactical objective
Israel must make rehabilitation and local governance conditional on Hamas’s military dismantling—or reserve the right to continue operations until the task is done
An article by Prof. Hillel Frisch published on the Jerusalem Post
Despite international rhetoric, neither the Palestinian Authority nor moderate Arab states are prepared to assume Gaza’s internal security—leaving Hamas poised to exploit any premature Israeli withdrawal
An article by Prof. Hillel Frisch published on the Jerusalem Post
An article by Prof. Hillel Frisch published on the Jerusalem Post
Prof. Hillel Frisch is quoted in the article
Moving on to the final stage of the hostage agreement will validate the path of jihad among Palestinians and the wider Muslim world, replenish Hamas’s leadership structure, and impose significant long-term military and economic costs on Israel.
Hamas is exploiting the deal to cement its rule over Gaza and derail the Trump plan
Analysis of Google searches shows Israel has greater freedom of action than it may imagine in view of the focus on the potential regional ramifications of the conflict between Israel and Iran over the Palestinians and Gaza.
