IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
A central tenet of Israeli military strategy is deterrence. This is embodied in the so-called "Dahiya Doctrine," which dictates the use of massive and disproportionate force and the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure during military operations.
on July 31, 2024
Dov Lior is an influential extremist Israeli settler rabbi and leading figure in the religious Zionist movement; former longtime chief rabbi of Israel’s illegal settlements in Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, and former head of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].
on September 1, 2023
The Gaza Strip is Palestinian land that has been under Israeli military occupation since the June 1967 war.
on June 19, 2023
The Palestinian “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from British Mandate Palestine during Israel’s creation (1947-49). The Nakba was not an unintended result of war. It was a deliberate and systematic act necessary for the creation of a Jewish majority state in historic Palestine, which was overwhelmingly Arab prior to 1948.
on April 5, 2023
Shimon Peres
on September 28, 2016
The following fact sheet provides an overview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at Bar-Ilan University in 2009 and his views on Palestinian statehood the two-state solution
on March 24, 2015
According to the United Nations, between July 7 and August 26, at least 2131 Palestinians were killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge.” The IMEU offers the following fact sheet summarizing Israel's latest assault on Gaza.
on September 10, 2014
Since July 7, Israel has killed at least 2087 Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 475 children and 246 women. Almost 10,500 others have been wounded. On Thursday alone, at least 38 Palestinians were killed in Gaza. The IMEU offers the latest on Operation Protective Edge.
on August 22, 2014
Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza are central pillars of a policy of economic warfare intended to punish the entire population of the tiny, occupied coastal strip in the hopes that Palestinians living there will blame Hamas for their predicament and reject the organization as well as any resistance to Israel’s continued control of the territory.
on August 14, 2014