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…
09/03/2021
In this week’s episode of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, co-host Gadi Taub and I did a post-mortem on Biden’s catastrophic failure in Afghanistan. Biden’s refusal to acknowledge the failure suggests that he will also refuse to learn the lessons from the failure. This bodes poorly for the U.S. and for Israel. We discussed the Soviet roots of “Palestinian…
08/12/2021
In Episode 17 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour I was back at the Center for Security Policy in Washington. This time, I spoke about Lebanon with my colleague and friend David Wurmser. During the Bush administration, Wurmser, served as senior advisor to the Middle East to then vice president Dick Cheney and was a participant in some of…
08/06/2021
This week’s episode of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour was filmed at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC, where I work as adjunct senior fellow for the Middle East. While visiting Washington, I spoke with Cameron Khansarinia, Policy Director of the National Union for Democracy in Iran. In a riveting discussion, we talked about the anti-regime protests…
07/30/2021
In Episode 15 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, between a deep dive into how the media/cultural echo chambers have harmed nation states and democracy and the nature of today’s balkanized media/entertainment systems, Gadi and I discussed three main events in Israel. We began with a conversation about Russia’s announcement that it has abrogated its 2015…
07/23/2021
In Episode 14 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Gadi and I discussed Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream announcement that it is joining the Jew haters in the BDS campaign. We talked about its consequences for the Israeli franchise, and about what Americans can do to fight the hate, (spoiler alert: there’s a lot that can be done fairly…
07/09/2021
In Episode 13 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Gadi and I discussed the fall of the government’s temporary immigration act in the early morning hours between July 5 and 6. The event exposed the anti-Zionist nature of the government and the stakes in bringing it down. We then shifted gears to discuss the Biden administration’s…
07/02/2021
In Episode 12 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Gadi and I discuss Israel new government’s role in mediating between Hamas and the Biden administration. We moved on to analyze the implications of the new government’s inability to sustain Israel’s immigration and citizenship laws, and its relationship to the international left’s campaign against the nation state.…
06/23/2021
In Episode 11 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Gadi and I discuss the new Israeli government’s policy of bowing to the will of the Biden administration in relation to Iran’s nuclear program in the context of Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement Monday where he claimed the Lapid-Bennett government’s position endangers Israel’s survival.We then proceeded to analyze the…
06/16/2021
In Episode 10 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, co-host Gadi Taub and I discussed how, just as the new government was being sworn in, the principle cause that led to Israel’s long-standing political deadlock – the Attorney General’s pursuit of corruption charges against Netanyahu – fell apart in Jerusalem’s District Courthouse. The prosecution’s claim that Netanyahu accepted bribes…