Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and Law at Lafayette College. He is the author or editor of numerous publications on a variety of political and military topics, including Begin's Foreign Policy, 1977-1983: Israel's Move to the Right (1987) and Emergence of a Binational Israel: The Second Republic in the Making (co-edited with Ofira Seliktar) (Westview, 1989).