10/31/2021
Last Wednesday, in response to a question from Senator Bill Hagerty, (R., TN), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Brian McKeon admitted in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that under both U.S. and international law, the U.S. cannot open a consulate in Jerusalem without Israel’s consent. In other words, the prospect of the Biden administration opening a consulate to…
10/29/2021
On Wednesday, Boston University held its annual Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture. Boston University was the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust survivor’s academic home. Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his literary work documenting the Holocaust and the rebirth of Jewish freedom in the State of Israel. This year Boston University invited Rev. Dr. William Barber to…
10/27/2021
In Episode 24 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, my colleague Dr. David Wurmser from the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC joined me again for another thrilling intellectual journey. We began by dissecting the reasons that the Biden administration, the EU, and the UN all condemned Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz ‘s designation of six Palestinian NGOs…
10/24/2021
In Episode 23 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour I was joined by my colleague Dr. David Wurmser from the Center for Security Policy. David served in senior positions in both the Bush and Trump administrations. We discussed the current and past implications of Israel’s strategic dependence on the U.S., particularly in light of the Biden administration’s decision to…
10/22/2021
A report this week about the discussions Israel and the U.S. are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake. Tuesday, Israel Hayom ran a red headline on its front page: “Frustration in Jerusalem: U.S. Passive Against Iran.” The story, by military correspondent Yoav Limor told us two deeply alarming things about the state of…
10/20/2021
Earlier this month, international aid began flowing into the Gaza Strip. More than a billion dollars have been pledged. Qatar and Egypt, the Biden administration and the United Nations are all keen to move as quickly as possible to rebuild the buildings that were destroyed during Hamas’ last missile offensive against Israel in May. Over a 10-day period in May, Hamas shot approximately 4,500 missiles, rockets…
10/15/2021
This week’s diplomatic calendar highlighted the difference between this year’s foreign policies and last year’s. Sunday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid hosted outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Jerusalem for a farewell visit. Although Israel’s media and foreign policy elites have long presented Merkel as a friend of Israel, for much of her 16-year tenure in…
10/14/2021
In Episode 22 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, co-host Gadi Taub and I went over Israel’s diplomatic week. In a week marking the first anniversary of the Abraham Accords, the Lapid-Bennett government met with Angela Merkel, King Abdullah of Jordan and the Biden administration to push a completely different diplomatic approach. The final part of the show focused…
10/08/2021
How does a nation lose its freedom? One way, of course is through foreign conquest. History is filled with examples of nations being subjugated and enslaved by foreign tyranny. Today, in the United States, Americans are not losing their liberty to a foreign power, but to domestic revolutionaries. The revolutionaries are willing to use force, as they showed in the…
10/06/2021
In Episode 21 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, co-host Gadi Taub and I discussed the state of Jews and anti-Semites in the Democrat Party today, in light of the Iron Dome funding fiasco with the Squad and Vice President Kamala Harris’s decision to empower an anti-Semitic student who accused Israel of committing genocide. We then compared and contrasted…