07/23/2023
Last week I was Lisa Daftari’s guest on her podcast, The Foreign Desk. Lisa and I discussed how my work as a member of Israel’s negotiation team with the PLO in the 1990s impacted my subsequent work. We discussed the crisis in U.S.-Israel ties and the prospects for peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
07/14/2023
In my News Analysis this week, I discussed: President Joe Biden’s interview with CNN’s Farid Zakaria where he launched yet another assault on the legitimacy of Israel’s government; U.S. support for the Lebanese Armed Forces. Over the past few weeks the LAF has operated shoulder to shoulder with Hezbollah terror forces in repeated cross-border penetrations of Israel. As the threat…
07/14/2023
My guest on the Caroline Glick Show this week has demonstrated that the most unlikely people can make a massive difference. As a South Carolina state Legislator, Alan Clemmons passed the first state law banning the South Carolina’s state government from doing business with companies that participate in BDS campaigns against Israel. He then led an effort to bring the…
07/07/2023
Why is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting China? Just how involved in the Middle East is China today? To explore Sino-Israeli relations following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announced state visit to Beijing, my guest this week on the Caroline Glick show is Carice Witte. Witte is the founder and executive director of SIGNAL Global, an Israeli think tank that focuses…
07/07/2023
In my Cold Open this week I discuss: – The IDF operation in Jenin. What is the end goal of the operation and is there limited potential due to the government and IDF not being on the same page? – The continued assault of government officials at home and abroad by the left as they protest at Haifa port and…
06/30/2023
On June 20, the judges overseeing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial informed the prosecutors and defense attorneys that the bribery charge has not been proven and should be dropped from the indictment. The implications are significant. To analyze them, my guest on this week’s show was Bar Ilan University Law School and University of San Diego School of Law Professor…
06/30/2023
The State Department has now officially adopted a policy of boycotting Jews in Judea. Iran ramps up its terrorist & nuclear ambitions. Israeli officials’ invitations to US Embassy July 4th party get lost in the mail. In my Cold Open this week, I discuss: The Biden administration’s new directive banning the U.S. from carrying out scientific cooperation with Israeli Jewish…
06/23/2023
This week the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on anti-Zionist based Jew hatred. And this week’s guest on the Caroline Glick Show was Prof. Anne Bayefsky. Bayefsky and I discussed the most powerful anti-Semitic institution in the world: The United Nations, where anti-Zionism is used daily to demonize the Jewish state and the Jewish people. The…
06/23/2023
I taped my news analysis this week while the IDF was trying to extricate its forces from Jenin after they were ambushed by a series of roadside bombs. It was the day before the murderous terror attack in Jenin where four Israelis were murdered. In this news analysis I go through several of the engines pushing the Palestinians to escalate…
06/15/2023
My guest on the Caroline Glick Show this week was former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Ambassador Friedman and I discussed a number of issues on this must see episode. Among other things, we discussed former President Donald Trump’s indictment this week; the foundations of the 2020 Abraham Peace Accords and the Biden administration’s failure to advance them amidst…