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Yossi Kuperwasser

IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He formerly served as director general of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and head of the research division of IDF Military Intelligence.

The location of the Philadelphi Corridor on Gaza's border with Egypt. Credit: Hamzé Attar/X.

Vital to have Israeli presence on Philadelphi Corridor

The chances that Egyptian, Arab, international or Palestinian Authority forces would stop Hamas and Islamic Jihad from smuggling arms are paltry.

Yossi Kuperwasser

August 23, 2024

Materiel found by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, next to an Israeli flag. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Hamas gravely miscalculated how Israel would react

The terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip never anticipated that Israel would launch an all-out undertaking to destroy it.

Yossi Kuperwasser

November 17, 2023

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Credit: Flash90.

A new Israeli policy on the PA

Israel must encourage Palestinian elements that do not promote an extremist narrative or participate in terror.

Yossi Kuperwasser

September 5, 2023

Illegal weapons seized by the Israel Police, Nov. 8, 2021. Credit: Israel Police.

Arms smuggling from Jordan: Lessons learned

A nagging question is, for whom are the caches of weapons from Jordan intended?

Yossi Kuperwasser

May 31, 2023

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, May 7, 2020. Credit: Flash90.

Mahmoud Abbas’s ‘50 holocausts’ remarks are essential to the Palestinian narrative

Promoting the claim that Israel has no right to exist is the Palestinian Authority’s highest priority.

Yossi Kuperwasser

August 30, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid sign the “Jerusalem U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration,” which states that America will “use all elements of its national power" to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO

Does Biden’s Israel visit signal new US resolve in the Middle East?

The president seems to understand that Russia, China and Iran have changed the regional reality, but he has not yet fully changed his policies.

Yossi Kuperwasser

August 2, 2022

The Israeli Air Force and the U.S. Air Force Command completed a joint international exercise in January 2022. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Israel confronts Iranian aggression and renewed Palestinian terror

The Jewish state is facing a very challenging strategic environment

Yossi Kuperwasser

May 29, 2022

Advanced IR-6 centrifuges in the underground Natanz uranium-enrichment facility in central Iran. Credit: Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

Israel now faces an especially challenging environment

Between Iran's runaway nuclear program, renewed Palestinian terror and international delegitimization efforts, the Jewish state has its work cut out for it.

Yossi Kuperwasser

May 26, 2022

Arabs wave flags and chant anti-Israel slogans at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the last Friday of Ramadan, April 29, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

The recipe for an explosion on the Temple Mount

Violence erupted because Israel and the Palestinians live in parallel worlds

Yossi Kuperwasser

May 8, 2022