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Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres is an author and professor emeritus of international law at Purdue University. He served as the chair of Project Daniel (Iranian nuclear weapons) for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2003-04.

For Hamas, violence and the sacred are one and the same. They go hand in hand; they are inseparable.
The fact that Hamas leaders sought safe harbor in a friendly state did not mean they were no longer subject to punishment.
Rules of proportionality have nothing to do with inflicting symmetrical or equivalent harms.
A “two-state solution” would enlarge not only the jihadi terror threat to Israel, conventional and unconventional, but also the tangible prospects for a catastrophic regional war.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that when it comes to contracts between nations, the “law of self-preservation overrules the law of obligation to others.”
Jerusalem should do whatever is needed to upgrade and enhance its nuclear deterrence posture in terms of doctrine and strategy.
Clarifications of international law that could enable a potential Palestinian state to become a criminal aggressor state.
Jihadi insurgents seeking to justify unrestrained attacks on Israeli noncombatants act in contravention of authoritative international law.