07/02/2021
The biggest media story of the week in Israel was the fall of the town of Evyatar in Samaria. Evyatar is located between three Palestinian villages and two Israeli villages. It was originally settled in 2013, following the murder nearby of Evyatar Borovsky, only to be destroyed by the IDF. It was settled again in May by 50 families in…
06/25/2021
It seems that a day doesn’t go by without another report of yet another outrageous attack by leftists against Jews in America. This week, a food truck in Philadelphia was barred from participating in an ethnic street food festival in Philadelphia because it sells Israeli street food and is owned by an Israeli Jew. The lesbian parade in Chicago published…
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…
06/18/2021
The day after Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett formed their government, Biden administration officials threw a diplomatic hand grenade at them. Monday administration officials told reporters “unofficially” that President Joe Biden intends to appoint Hady Amr, his Assistant Secretary of State for Israel and the Palestinians to serve as U.S. Consul General to the Palestinians — in Jerusalem. To deploy…
06/18/2021
Many of Israel’s supporters are confused by its new government. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is a man of the political Right. His party is called Yamina, which means, “to the right”—as in, to the right of Israel’s main governing party, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s Likud party. Yet, immediately after Bennett’s government was sworn in Sunday night, leftists held a raucous…
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…
06/11/2021
Over the past decade, for the first time in its history, Israel developed a strong diplomatic posture in the region and worldwide. Israel developed strategic ties with Arab states, and the states of the eastern Mediterranean. It has built close ties with the EU’s Visegrád Group of central European states Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic as well as…
06/08/2021
In Episode 9 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, my co-host Gadi Taub and I go into the nuts and bolts of the new Israeli government that is set to be sworn in next Sunday, June 14. We explain why it is post-modern, post-Zionist, post-democratic and post-Jewish and what this means for Israel’s national security, national identity and national…
06/06/2021
The storm of controversy now engulfing Israel revolves around one question. What sort of government do Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett intend to swear in? According to Lapid, Bennett and their media chorus, Israel is about to get a “unity government.” Once it is formed, all will be sweetness and light. The political fights that have afflicted us will fade…
06/04/2021
In a week of unprecedented political upheaval, it’s hard to pay attention to anything other than what is before our face. As Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked’s voters watch in shock as they betray every single thing that they claimed to stand for and form a government that gives unprecedented powers not only to post-Zionist parties but to the anti-Zionist…