01/22/2023
In Ep. 89 of the Caroline Glick Show, two things happened. First in my opening (first 17 minutes), I gave the skinny on Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s judicial reform package. If you want to understand what is going on politically, and what is on the table legislatively, I suggest you watch. I hope to put it out as a separate…
01/18/2023
I gave a webinar with the Middle East Forum on Monday evening where I placed the current U.S. efforts to block Arab-Israel peace in the context of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s February 14, 1945 meeting with the founder of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud. In that meeting Roosevelt built the foundations and the rationale for the policies the U.S. adopted in relation…
01/18/2023
Speaking to the Saudi English-language newspaper Al Arabiya, last month Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his case for peace between Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Such a peace, he explained, would be “a quantum leap for overall peace between Israel and the Arab word,” which would change the Middle East “in ways that are unimaginable.” Netanyahu understated the point. As…
01/13/2023
“For years now, Israel has seemed to me like a man sleepwalking toward a cliff. Now we’ve fallen from it.” So proclaimed author Hillel Halkin in a hysterical requiem for Israel published last week in The Jewish Review of Books. Halkin’s metaphorical cliff is the right-religious bloc’s electoral victory on Nov. 1, 2022 and the formation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sixth…
01/13/2023
Following Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s press conference last week, where he set out the first stage of his program for judicial reform, the Netanyahu government has been subjected to a mass assault by Israel’s elite classes and their partners internationally. Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak singlehandedly instigated what is now viewed as Israel’s judicial revolution while everyone’s heads were…
01/13/2023
As Israel is being pilloried at the U.N. Security Council by friend and foe alike for daring to allow Jews to visit the Temple Mount, professor Richard Landes joined me last week on the “Caroline Glick Show” to discuss the contemporary roots of the demonization of Jews and the Jewish state. Landes recently published Can the Whole World Be Wrong: Lethal Journalism,…
01/06/2023
Political philosopher and author Yoram Hazony joined me at the JNS.org studio in this week’s “Caroline Glick Show.” Hazony heads the National Conservatism Movement, which operates in the United States and Europe. We discussed his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery, and its lessons for Israel. We went through the major thesis of the book, namely that liberal democracy has been subsumed into…
01/06/2023
Does the Israeli left protect Israel from international condemnation and prosecution? This has been the left’s key claim for more than a generation. From former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak to opposition leader Yair Lapid and his colleagues, to the last of Israel’s leftist reporters, commentators and activists, all major and minor operatives on the Israeli left have long insisted…
01/06/2023
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who passed away this week at the age of 95, was a historically significant figure for many reasons: He was the first pope in six centuries to retire, rather than die in office. He was the first German pope in postwar history. He was also a friend of the Jews. To be sure, Benedict’s restoration of…
With the swearing-in of the latest Netanyahu government, Israel will embark on a new course in foreign policy—and just in time. For the past year-and-a-half of the Bennett-Lapid-Gantz government, Israel’s foreign policy ceased to be independent. In the days and weeks before Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz formed their coalition, they committed themselves to a policy of “no…