1. SeeIsrael's Strategic Future: Project Daniel, Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR), ACPR Policy Paper No. 155, Israel, May 2004, 64 p. This document was originally prepared only for confidential presentation to the Prime Minister, and not intended for publication.
2. I will not make reference to any of the particular components of theIIC(e.g., Military Intelligence vs. Mossad), but will simply identify the Community in its entirety.
3. See, on terrorism, Louis René Beres, “The Legal Meaning of Terrorism for the Military Commander,”Connecticut Journal of International Law, Spring 1996; and Louis René Beres, “The Meaning of Terrorism: Jurisprudential and Definitional Clarifications,”Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, February 1995.
4. See, for example, Louis René Beres and MK/Major General (IAF/Res.) Isaac Ben-Israel, “Think, Anticipatory Self-Defense,”The Jerusalem Post, 22, October 2007, and Louis René Beres and MK/Major General (IAF/Res.) Isaac Ben-Israel, “Deterring an Iranian Nuclear Attack,”The Washington Times, 27 January 2009. We also remain fully aware that any future preemptive action against Iranian nuclear assets and infrastructures would be vastly more operationally difficult than Osiraq. See, for example, Louis René Beres and Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto, “Reconsidering Israel's Destruction of Iraq's Osiraq Nuclear Reactor,” Menachem Begin Heritage Center,Israel's Strike Against the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor, 7 June 1981, Jerusalem, Israel, September 2003, pp. 59–60.
5. See, for example, Louis René Beres, “In Support of Anticipatory Self-Defense: Israel, Osiraq and International Law,”Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 19, No. 2, August 1998, pp. 111–114; Louis René Beres, “Israel and Anticipatory Self-Defense,”Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 8, 1991, pp. 89–99; Louis René Beres, “Israel, Force and International Law: Assessing Anticipatory Self-Defense,”The Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 1991; and Louis René Beres, “After the Gulf War: Israel, Preemption and Anticipatory Self-Defense,”Houston Journal of International Law, May 1991.