08/25/2021
Two weeks after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the UN Security Council passed a resolution imposing an embargo and maritime blockade on Iraqi shipping. Then-President George H.W. Bush was trying to figure out how to forcefully enforce it, and he discussed the issue with then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher listened to Bush’s dilemma and warned, “Remember George, this…
08/20/2021
The Taliban’s seizure of control over Afghanistan will loom large over Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit with U.S. President Joe Biden next Thursday, and its implications are dire. As Taliban forces seized control of one Afghan province after another, and everyone who was paying attention recognized that the capital Kabul would soon follow, Biden went on a two-week vacation. The…
08/13/2021
The likelihood that Hezbollah will start a major war against Israel increased significantly in the wake of its missile attack last week. Hezbollah attacked Israel with twenty missiles because the outcome of Hamas’s offensive against the Jewish state in May convinced Iran’s foreign legion in Lebanon that it would only gain from aggression. Three months ago, Hamas opened an unprovoked…
08/12/2021
In Episode 17 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour I was back at the Center for Security Policy in Washington. This time, I spoke about Lebanon with my colleague and friend David Wurmser. During the Bush administration, Wurmser, served as senior advisor to the Middle East to then vice president Dick Cheney and was a participant in some of…
08/06/2021
This week’s episode of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour was filmed at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC, where I work as adjunct senior fellow for the Middle East. While visiting Washington, I spoke with Cameron Khansarinia, Policy Director of the National Union for Democracy in Iran. In a riveting discussion, we talked about the anti-regime protests…
07/31/2021
Thursday it was reported that the IDF is planning to change its tactics in Syria and will base its operations against Iranian targets in the area on long-range standoff munitions rather than air strikes. Obviously, the move will downgrade Israel’s operational prowess. The report of Israel’s new policy of restraint followed the big story of the week: Russia’s announcement that…
07/30/2021
In Episode 15 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, between a deep dive into how the media/cultural echo chambers have harmed nation states and democracy and the nature of today’s balkanized media/entertainment systems, Gadi and I discussed three main events in Israel. We began with a conversation about Russia’s announcement that it has abrogated its 2015…
07/23/2021
On July 11, the American Jewish establishment tried to prove that it could fight anti-Semitism and be progressive at the same time. It failed. Outside of Congress that day, dozens of American Jewish groups co-sponsored a rally against the rising tide of Jew hatred in America. The organizers had hoped that tens of thousands of would show up for the…
07/23/2021
In Episode 14 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Gadi and I discussed Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream announcement that it is joining the Jew haters in the BDS campaign. We talked about its consequences for the Israeli franchise, and about what Americans can do to fight the hate, (spoiler alert: there’s a lot that can be done fairly…
07/16/2021
From Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s stunning assault against his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, through Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s trip to Brussels and his speech before the Global Forum on Anti-Semitism, this week the Lapid-Bennett government’s foreign policy doctrine was fully exposed. One of the novel aspects of Bennett and Lapid’s governming arrangements is that there doesn’t appear to…