Claude Berrebiand the HarvardeconomistEfraimBenmelechstudied – there's no nice way to put this – the human-resourcespoliciesofPalestinianterroristgroups.
Efraim Inbar, director of Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Israel's Bar-Ilan University is pessimistic about prospects for a breakthrough soon.
VOA: standard.2009.10.31
Former Mossad head Efraim Halevy has repeatedly called for talks with the Islamist group.