Monthly Archives : February 2022

What is Russia Doing in Syria?


As the crisis mounted in the week before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia sent strategic bombers, nuclear-capable cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles to Syria and Russian Defense Minister Shoigo flew to Syria to unroll them. In Episode 40 of the Caroline Glick Middle East News Hour, I hosted U.S. Army Col. Joel Rayburn, who among other things, served as U.S.…

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What Game is Biden Playing with Ukraine and Iran?


In this week’s show, I was joined by David Wurmser in Washington, DC to discuss the ramifications of Joe Biden’s brinksmanship with Russia on Ukraine for America’s continued superpower status and for NATO. We moved from Ukraine to Iran and the implications of the administration’s abandonment of all red lines in favor of a deal at all costs. We spoke…

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Biden’s “Victory” Against Putin


Several commentators have argued in recent days that the crisis between Russia and Ukraine has been a godsend for President Joe Biden ahead of the midterm elections in November. The argument is fairly straightforward. With tough talk and without endangering any U.S. forces, Biden is managing to block Russian President Vladimir Putin from carrying through on his plan to invade…

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The Ayatollahs’ Men in Washington


Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif recently co-authored a book in Farsi about the 2015 nuclear deal that tells us a great deal about how we should be assessing the nuclear negotiations taking place in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Russia, China, France, Germany and France). Titled, The Nuclear Deal: The Untold Story of the JCPOA, Projecting…

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Israel’s Deep State is Exposed


On Sunday morning, Israelis awoke to the headline in Calcalist, an business newspaper, reporting that the legal fraternity used counterterror spyware to remotely seize the contents of the cellphones of 26 Israelis, including then prime minister’s son, his closest advisors, journalists, businessmen, several mayors, senior government officials, and others. The story was an earthquake of epic proportions and the police,…

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Amnesty’s Conspiracy Theory Puts Biden and Progressive Jews in a Bind


On February 1, Amnesty International published a conspiracy theory about Jews. Amnesty’s 280-page diatribe entitled, “Israel’s Apartheid Against the Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity,” alleges that the only liberal democracy in the Middle East and the only Jewish state in the world is a criminal enterprise and has been since its formation in 1948. According to…

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Assessing the Damage of Biden’s Middle East Policies


In this week’s episode of the Mideast News Hour I was joined by Dr. Victoria Coates, the Distinguished Fellow for Strategic Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. During the Trump administration, Victoria served as Deputy National Security Advisor and as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary’s Representative to the Middle East and North…

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The Anti-Defamation League and Amnesty International


One of the curiouser responses to Amnesty International’s Israel Apartheid report this week came from the Anti-Defamation League. Monday, the heads of Amnesty held a press conference in Israel’s capital Jerusalem. In it they presented the main “findings” of the “investigation” they conducted regarding the status of Israel’s existence. It works out that after years of “careful study,” Amnesty’s entirely…

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