07/16/2021
From one end of Iran to the other, citizens are suffering. The regime is failing the people at all levels. Water shortages are endemic. Power outages are a matter of course. The sick and impoverished, livestock and crops are all dying from lack of water, oxygen and overheating. Petroleum workers are on strike due to starvation-level wages. Wherever one turns…
07/16/2021
Jordan’s King Abdullah is the newest member of the Iranian axis. On June 27, Abdullah met in Baghdad with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi. The three leaders signed a deal to transport Iraqi oil to Europe through Jordan and Egypt. As Arab affairs scholar Dr. Edy Cohen put it in the Jerusalem Post, “This agreement is…
07/09/2021
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Defense Secretary General Lloyd Austin gave an ominous description of how he viewed the Pentagon’s mission. He began his statement blandly enough. “The job of the Defense Department is to keep America safe from our enemies,” he said. He immediately added however, “But we can’t do that if some of those enemies live within our…
07/09/2021
In Episode 13 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Gadi and I discussed the fall of the government’s temporary immigration act in the early morning hours between July 5 and 6. The event exposed the anti-Zionist nature of the government and the stakes in bringing it down. We then shifted gears to discuss the Biden administration’s…
07/02/2021
In Episode 12 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Gadi and I discuss Israel new government’s role in mediating between Hamas and the Biden administration. We moved on to analyze the implications of the new government’s inability to sustain Israel’s immigration and citizenship laws, and its relationship to the international left’s campaign against the nation state.…
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…