10/27/2021
In Episode 24 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, my colleague Dr. David Wurmser from the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC joined me again for another thrilling intellectual journey. We began by dissecting the reasons that the Biden administration, the EU, and the UN all condemned Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz ‘s designation of six Palestinian NGOs…
10/24/2021
In Episode 23 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour I was joined by my colleague Dr. David Wurmser from the Center for Security Policy. David served in senior positions in both the Bush and Trump administrations. We discussed the current and past implications of Israel’s strategic dependence on the U.S., particularly in light of the Biden administration’s decision to…
10/22/2021
A report this week about the discussions Israel and the U.S. are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake. Tuesday, Israel Hayom ran a red headline on its front page: “Frustration in Jerusalem: U.S. Passive Against Iran.” The story, by military correspondent Yoav Limor told us two deeply alarming things about the state of…
10/20/2021
Earlier this month, international aid began flowing into the Gaza Strip. More than a billion dollars have been pledged. Qatar and Egypt, the Biden administration and the United Nations are all keen to move as quickly as possible to rebuild the buildings that were destroyed during Hamas’ last missile offensive against Israel in May. Over a 10-day period in May, Hamas shot approximately 4,500 missiles, rockets…
10/15/2021
This week’s diplomatic calendar highlighted the difference between this year’s foreign policies and last year’s. Sunday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid hosted outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Jerusalem for a farewell visit. Although Israel’s media and foreign policy elites have long presented Merkel as a friend of Israel, for much of her 16-year tenure in…
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…
10/08/2021
How does a nation lose its freedom? One way, of course is through foreign conquest. History is filled with examples of nations being subjugated and enslaved by foreign tyranny. Today, in the United States, Americans are not losing their liberty to a foreign power, but to domestic revolutionaries. The revolutionaries are willing to use force, as they showed in the…
10/06/2021
In Episode 21 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, co-host Gadi Taub and I discussed the state of Jews and anti-Semites in the Democrat Party today, in light of the Iron Dome funding fiasco with the Squad and Vice President Kamala Harris’s decision to empower an anti-Semitic student who accused Israel of committing genocide. We then compared and contrasted…
10/01/2021
Last week, after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the supplemental spending bill for the Iron Dome program, everyone from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Biden White House, to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, quickly proclaimed bipartisan support in Washington for the US-Israel alliance is as strong as it ever was. Unfortunately, even before the…
09/24/2021
Last week, Foreign Policy magazine published an interview with Defense Minister Benny Gantz. In it, Gantz said that Israel has dropped its opposition to the Biden administration’s plan to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. With Gantz’s statement, the full expanse of the Lapid-Gantz-Bennett government’s strategy for contending with Iran’s nuclear program has come into view. And it…