08/20/2023
To talk about the news of the Biden administration’s latest hostages for cash deal with Iran and its implication for Iran’s nuclear weapons program, my guest last week on the Caroline Glick Show this week was Richard Goldberg, a senior fellow at the Washington, DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Goldberg was the point person in the National Security Council…
08/20/2023
A striking feature of the Left’s anti-government campaign has been the prominence of veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the effort. Yom Kippur War veterans lead the campaign, plan most of its operations, are its key funders and serve as prominent foot soldiers. The question is why? What happened in that war that radicalized so many of its…
Under the headline, “U.S.-Saudi Deal Sets Path to Normalize Kingdom’s Ties with Israel,” on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a detailed report of the content of U.S.-Saudi discussions. The headline was accurate as far as that goes. But the content of the article made clear that Israel is not the real focus of the discussions. Although the story paid homage to…
08/05/2023
Outgoing Supreme Court president Esther Hayut is playing the short game. She wants to clear her desk, finish the work she set out to achieve when she took over as Supreme Court head in late 2017 and let the chips fall where they may. Shortly before Hayut assumed office, she set out her judicial vision in an address before the…
08/05/2023
Tom Friedman treats us to another anti-Israel piece, anti-reform protestors reach out to a foreign power to help them, and the Israeli Supreme Court weighs whether to abrogate Basic Laws. In my News Analysis this week, I discussed: 1 – The backstory behind the flurry of U.S. diplomatic activity in Saudi Arabia. What is the Biden administration seeking to achieve…
08/05/2023
Today a debate is raging about U.S. military aid to Israel among Israel’s supporters. Is U.S. military aid good for Israel or has it become an excuse for Israeli strategic passivity? Is Israel so dependent on the aid that it ignores its own interests and endangers lives? To advance this debate, my guest on this week’s Caroline Glick Show was…
07/28/2023
The Hebrew language—the language of the Jewish people—lacks a concept of history. The closest term to history is zikharon, or “memory.” Although both concepts—history and memory—relate to past events, they relate to those events and to the nature of time itself, in entirely different ways. The concept of history involves thinking about time in a linear fashion. Time is circular in…
07/28/2023
Tablet online magazine hosted a symposium on the desirability of continued U.S. military aid to Israel and asked that I weigh in. To read the entire symposium, click here. What follows is my article. AT THE HEIGHT OF OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE, Israel’s seven-week war with Hamas in the summer of 2014, then President Barack Obama imposed an embargo on a…
07/28/2023
In my news analysis this week, I went through the uproar over the Knesset’s legislation of constraints on the Supreme Court’s power to overturn policies based on the “Reasonableness Clause. I explained what the “reasonable clause is,” how it was invented, what the amended law will and won’t do and what it means for the Netanyahu government going forward. I…
