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Summary: In the second intifada, Israel adopted a policy of withdrawal and containment from Gaza in sharp contrast to the offensive strategy applied in Judea and Samaria-the West Bank. The immediate results were strikingly different:  a very sharp drop in terrorism in Judea and Samaria-the West Bank demonstrated the success of the offensive, while the increase in terrorism, mostly ballistic, demonstrated the failure of containment of Hamas in Gaza.  Israel’s three offensive rounds against Hamas in 2009, 2012 and 2014 demonstrated Israel’s ability to replicate the success in the West Bank against Hamas in Gaza. 

Speaker: Hillel Frisch is a professor in the Departments of Political Studies and Middle East Studies in Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Senior Researcher in the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. His latest book, Israeli Security and its Arab Citizens, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He has written numerous articles on Palestinian and Arab politics and security issues in the Middle East in leading political science and regional journals. His latest studies are “Choosing the Right Strategy: Why the Palestinians Were More Successful in the First Intifada than in the Second?” Contemporary Review of the Middle East (2015),  Hamas: A Social Welfare Government or War Machine?  (BESA, 2015) http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/9483/  (also appeared in Daily Alert), The ISIS Challenge in Syria; Implications for Israeli Security (BESA, May 2016) (Republished in Tablet and the Daily Alert), http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/isis-challenge-syria-implications-israeli-security/ , “Bringing IR theory to Contentious Politics: Arab Israeli Demobilization after the al-Aqsa Initifada (2001-2010),” The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies (2017) and recent studies in Hebrew on plotting the map of pain of Hamas and Hizballah (commissioned by the IDF), a study on the triangular relationship between Israel, the PA and Hamas and another on the Palestinian offensive in 2015 (with Oshri Bartal), all of which appear on the Begin-Sadat Center’s site.

Discussant:  Nina Musgrave Dr Musgrave is Assistant Director at the Centre for Defence Studies in the Department of War Studies. Her doctoral research focused on western policy towards Hamas following Hamas’s political participation in 2006. She is also Course Tutor for the MA in National Security Studies.

Chair:  David Betz  Professor Betz's main research interests are insurgency and counterinsurgency, information warfare and cyberwar and propaganda. He is head of the Insurgency Research Group in the Department of War Studies. 

 

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