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The Netanyahu Doctrine: Total War Only Against an Iranian Nuclear Breakout

The Netanyahu Doctrine: Total War Only Against an Iranian Nuclear Breakout
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Professor Hillel Frisch

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.

Recent publications

Hamas’s Battle with Gaza’s “Rogue Clans” in the Eyes of the Palestinian Public

A review of Arabic media, international coverage, and social media shows contrasting Palestinian views of...

The Pakistan–Saudi Defense Agreement: A First Step Toward an “Islamic NATO”?

The pact raises the specter of a Sunni alliance under Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella — a...

Economic Strain and Strategic Restraint in Post-Snapback Iran

Facing inflation, falling oil revenues, and social unrest, Tehran is likely to scale back costly...

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