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Caroline B. Glick is the senior Middle East fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post
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Caroline Glick (Dec 30, 2011)
In recent months, a curious argument has surfaced in favor of US President Barack Obama. His supporters argue that Obama's foreign policy has been a massive success. If he... more
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Caroline Glick (Dec 28, 2011)
Many of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's supporters were stunned last week when IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz announced he was promoting Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Alon... more
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Caroline Glick (Dec 20, 2011)
For decades New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman balanced his substantively anti-Israel positions with repeated protestations of love for Israel.
His balancing act... more
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Caroline Glick (Dec 17, 2011)
On Monday night, hooligans identified with the national religious camp staged three unlawful, and in at least one case violent, protests against the IDF.
First, several... more
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Caroline Glick (Dec 13, 2011)
Last Friday, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, did something revolutionary. He told the truth about the... more
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Caroline Glick (Dec 10, 2011)
Last Thursday, in an address before the Association for Public Law's annual conference at the Dead Sea, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch launched an unhinged attack on... more
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Caroline Glick (Dec 06, 2011)
With vote tallies in for Egypt's first round of parliamentary elections in it is abundantly clear that Egypt is on the fast track to becoming a totalitarian Islamic state.... more
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Caroline Glick (Dec 02, 2011)
Something is happening in Iran. Forces are in motion. But what is happening? And who are the forces that are on the move? Since this week's bombing in Isfahan, the world... more
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Caroline Glick (Nov 25, 2011)
Next month, America's long campaign in Iraq will come to an end with the departure of the last US forces from the country.
Amazingly, the approaching... more
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Caroline Glick (Nov 25, 2011)
For many years, observers of the US State Department on both sides of the American political spectrum have agreed that State Department officials suffer from a malady... more
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Caroline Glick (Nov 15, 2011)
US Embassy cables leaked by Wikileaks in September exposed the ugly truth that self-described champions of Israeli democracy would like us to forget about the actual goals of... more
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Caroline Glick (Nov 12, 2011)
The slurs against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama after last week's G20 summit were revealing as... more
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Caroline Glick (Nov 09, 2011)
Editor's Note: Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
Over the past week, there has been an avalanche of news reports in the Israeli and Western media about the... more
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Caroline Glick (Nov 07, 2011)
You have to hand it to the Palestinians.
They decided to abandon the peace process and seek international recognition of the "State of Palestine" - a state in a de facto... more
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Caroline Glick (Oct 31, 2011)
It was a normal Shabbat afternoon in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood. Children were outside visiting with their friends and playing in the empty streets. But the tranquility... more
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Caroline Glick (Oct 21, 2011)
Gilad Schalit is home. And that is wonderful. The terrorists Israel released in exchange for the IDF soldier held hostage by Hamas for more than five years are running... more
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Caroline Glick (Oct 20, 2011)
The Obama administration's response to Iran's plan to bring its 32-year-old war against the United States to the US capital is the newest confirmation that President Barack... more
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Caroline Glick (Oct 14, 2011)
No one denies the long suffering of the Schalit family. Noam and Aviva Schalit and their relatives have endured five years and four months of uninterrupted anguish since... more
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Caroline Glick (Oct 11, 2011)
On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt's state television headquarters in Cairo. The 1,000 Christians represented the... more
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Caroline Glick (Oct 07, 2011)
Next month, convicted Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will begin his 27th year in prison, and the Obama administration is displaying stunning insensitivity to what this means... more
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Caroline Glick (Oct 04, 2011)
To the naked eye, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be moving from strength to strength. Erdogan was welcomed as a hero on his recent trip to Egypt,... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 28, 2011)
Upon his return to Ramallah from New York, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was greeted by a crowd of several thousand well-wishers. They applauded... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 23, 2011)
Will the Egyptian military be permitted to remilitarize the Sinai? Since Palestinian and Egyptian terrorists crossed into Israel from Sinai on August 18 and... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 20, 2011)
Speaking Sunday at the UN's conference of donors to the Palestinian Authority, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon warned that while Israel supports... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 16, 2011)
If nothing else, the Palestinians' UN statehood gambit goes a long way towards revealing the deep-seated European and US pathologies that enable and prolong the Palestinian... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 13, 2011)
We are able to consider the lessons of the weekend's mob assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo because the six Israeli security officers who were on the... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 10, 2011)
Ten years ago, in the shadow of the crater at Ground Zero, the smoldering Pentagon and a field of honor in Pennsylvania, America found itself at war.
Today, a decade... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 08, 2011)
US election season is clearly upon us as US President Barack Obama has moved into full campaign mode. Part and parcel of that mode is a new bid to woo Jewish... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 06, 2011)
Monday morning Turkey took its anti-Israel campaign to a new level. Beyond downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel; beyond suspending military agreements; beyond... more
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Caroline Glick (Sep 02, 2011)
US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, kicked up a political storm this week. On Tuesday, Ros-Lehtinen introduced the... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 30, 2011)
Will the Egyptian military be permitted to remilitarize the Sinai? Since Palestinian and Egyptian terrorists crossed into Israel from Sinai on August 18 and murdered eight... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 26, 2011)
American media superstar Glenn Beck's visit to Israel this week was a revealing and remarkable event. It revealed what it takes to be a friend of Israel. And it revealed the... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 19, 2011)
Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern. The IDF does not change its assessments of the strategic environment until Israeli blood runs in the streets.... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 16, 2011)
The Palestinians' decision to place the issue of the establishment of a Palestinian state before the United Nations for a vote next month repudiates of the principles of the... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 12, 2011)
Over the past several months, a certain intolerance has crept into the rhetoric of leading neoconservative publications and writers. This intolerance has become particularly... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 09, 2011)
In the wake of Anders Breivik's massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 05, 2011)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has explained repeatedly over the years that Israel has no Palestinian partner to negotiate with. So news reports this week that Netanyahu... more
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Caroline Glick (Aug 02, 2011)
Last Monday Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz gave an interview to Channel 2's news anchor Yonit Levy during the prime-time news broadcast. Levy began the interview with a... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 29, 2011)
Last Friday morning, Anders Breivik burst onto the international screen when he carried out a monstrous act of terrorism against his fellow Norwegians. Breivik bombed the... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 27, 2011)
Shortly after Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recip Erdogan came to power in 2002, he began undermining Turkey's strategic alliance with Israel. Erdogan... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 25, 2011)
The past month has been a difficult one for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinians (UNRWA). First Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza held mass... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 22, 2011)
Saying that Israel faces daunting challenges today and that those challenges will multiply and grow in the near future should not be construed as a partisan or ideological... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 18, 2011)
Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is in Europe this week seeking to convince the Spanish and Norwegian governments to support the Palestinian bid to sidestep negotiations with... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 18, 2011)
It was seven months ago that Mohammed Bouazizi, a vegetable peddler in Tunisia set himself and the Arab world on fire. The 26-year-old staged his suicidal protest on the... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 12, 2011)
Five years ago this week, Iran’s Lebanese proxy opened war with Israel. The war lasted 34 days, during which Hezbollah launched more than 4,000 missiles against Israel. Now... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 08, 2011)
Last Saturday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati the political equivalent of a public thrashing. Last Thursday,... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 05, 2011)
On Monday, saboteurs bombed the Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel for the third time since former president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February. The move was just another... more
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Caroline Glick (Jul 01, 2011)
For many years, the Left in Israel and throughout the world has upheld the so-called “international community” as the arbiter of all things. From Israel’s right to exist to... more
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Caroline Glick (Jun 28, 2011)
Sunday was the first day of Sgt. Gilad Schalit’s sixth year in captivity. Schalit was kidnapped on June 26, 2006 and has been held hostage by Palestinian terrorists... more
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Caroline Glick (Jun 21, 2011)
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates sounded... more
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Caroline Glick (Jun 17, 2011)
Every day, major stories come out of the Middle East. And behind each of these stories are major developments that deserve of our attention and, more often than not, our... more
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Caroline Glick (Jun 14, 2011)
Shimon Schiffer and Nahum Barnea are both senior political commentators for Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s largest circulation newspaper. They are both also leftist... more
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Caroline Glick (Jun 10, 2011)
Last week Yale University announced its decision to close down its institute for the study of anti-Semitism. The move has been widely criticized as politically motivated. For... more
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Caroline Glick (Jun 03, 2011)
The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees. Over the past week, leading newspapers have devoted... more
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Caroline Glick (May 31, 2011)
In the aftermath of US President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech on the Middle East, his supporters argued that the policy toward Israel and the Palestinians that Obama outlined... more
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Caroline Glick (May 27, 2011)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was hoping to avoid his clash with US President Barack Obama this week in Washington.
Four days before his showdown at the White House... more
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Caroline Glick (May 24, 2011)
As the Washington Post pointed out on Friday, US President Barack Obama purposely provoked the current fight with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He knew full well that... more
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Caroline Glick (May 20, 2011)
I was out sick yesterday so I was unable to write today's column for the Jerusalem Post. I did manage to watch President Obama's speech on the Middle East yesterday evening.... more
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Caroline Glick (May 17, 2011)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have some explaining to do.
On Sunday, Israel was invaded along its border with Syria. More than 100... more
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Caroline Glick (May 16, 2011)
It is hard to believe, but it appears that in the wake of the Palestinian unity deal that brings Hamas, the genocidal, al-Qaida-aligned, local franchise of the Egyptian... more
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Caroline Glick (May 12, 2011)
I have been meaning to write about the storm raging in New York following CUNY's board of trustees decision not to present an honorary degree to anti-Israel propagandist/faux... more
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Caroline Glick (May 03, 2011)
In the end, the Holocaust raged until the Allied powers won the war. It didn’t have to be that way. If the Jews had been permitted to leave Europe, the Holocaust could have... more
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Caroline Glick (Apr 29, 2011)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren’t tragic. Immediately after the news... more
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Caroline Glick (Apr 22, 2011)
If only in the interest of intellectual hygiene, it would be refreshing if the Obama administration would stop ascribing moral impetuses to its foreign policy.
Today, US... more
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Caroline Glick (Apr 15, 2011)
Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons.
Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Development AKP party... more
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Caroline Glick (Apr 04, 2011)
Richard Goldstone’s repudiation of the eponymous blood libel he authored last year provides a number of lessons about the nature of the political war against the Jewish... more
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Caroline Glick (Apr 01, 2011)
Over the past year or so, American Jewish opponents of Israel like writer and activist Peter Beinart have sought to intimidate and demoralize Israelis by telling us that... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 28, 2011)
Amidst the many dangers posed by the political conflagration now engulfing the Arab world, we are presented with a unique opportunity in Syria. In Egypt, the overthrow of... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 25, 2011)
What are we to make of the fact that no one has taken credit for Wednesday’s bombing in Jerusalem?
Wednesday’s bombing was not a stand-alone event. It was part and parcel... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 22, 2011)
The US’s new war against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is the latest sign of its steady regional decline. In media interviews over the weekend, US military chief Adm.... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 18, 2011)
Over the past several years, a growing number of patriotic Israelis have begun to despair. We can’t stand up to the whole world, they say. At the end of the day, we will have... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 15, 2011)
Ruth Fogel was in the bathroom when the Palestinian terrorists pounced on her husband Udi and their three-month-old daughter Hadas, slitting their throats as they lay in bed... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 11, 2011)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is stuck between a diplomatic rock and a political hard place. And his chosen means of extricating himself from the double bind is only... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 08, 2011)
Every few months, we are presented with media reports about Jewish women rescued from their Muslim husbands in the Palestinian Authority or within Israel.
The stories are... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 04, 2011)
A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn’t be happier. In a speech Monday in the Iranian city of Kermanshah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Politburo... more
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Caroline Glick (Mar 01, 2011)
It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the... more
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Caroline Glick (Feb 25, 2011)
On Wednesday night, Israelis received our first taste of the new Middle East with the missile strikes on Beersheba. Iran’s Palestinian proxy, the local branch of the Muslim... more
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Caroline Glick (Feb 22, 2011)
For better or worse, each passing day the Middle East is becoming more unstable. Regimes that have clung to power for decades are now being overthrown and threatened. Others... more
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Caroline Glick (Feb 18, 2011)
Among the least analyzed aspects of the Egyptian revolution has been the significance of the widespread violence against the foreign media covering the demonstrations in... more
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Caroline Glick (Feb 15, 2011)
One of the first casualties of the Egyptian revolution may very well be Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. The Egyptian public's overwhelming animus towards Jews renders it... more
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Caroline Glick (Feb 08, 2011)
As the threats against Israel mount from all directions, the job of the IDF Chief of General Staff is becoming more challenging by the day.
First on the list of threats is... more
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Caroline Glick (Feb 04, 2011)
Over the past week, Israel has been criticized for being insufficiently supportive of democratic change in Egypt. While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been careful to... more
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Caroline Glick (Feb 01, 2011)
Does the US fail to understand what will happen to its strategic interests in the region if the Muslim Brotherhood is the power behind the throne of the next regime?
The... more
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Caroline Glick (Jan 28, 2011)
Today the Egyptian regime faces its gravest threat since Anwar Sadat's assassination 30 years ago. As protesters take to the street for the third day in a row demanding the... more
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Caroline Glick (Jan 27, 2011)
For Israelis, the American Left's assault on Sarah Palin and the conservative movement in the wake of Jared Loughlin's murderous attack in Tuscon, Arizona was disturbingly... more
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Caroline Glick (Jan 21, 2011)
Two documents reported on this week shed a troubling light on the US government’s attitude toward Israel.
The first is a 27-page FBI search warrant affidavit from 2004... more
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Caroline Glick (Jan 18, 2011)
If at the height of the anti-government protests in Tunisia last week, Israel and the Palestinians had signed a final peace deal, would the protesters have packed up their... more
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Caroline Glick (Jan 11, 2011)
On Sunday, the southern Sudanese began voting on a referendum to secede from the Republic of Sudan and establish their own sovereign nation. By all accounts, they will soon... more
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Caroline Glick (Jan 07, 2011)
On Sunday December 19, the self-proclaimed "Israeli human rights" group B'Tselem disseminated a shocking story to the local and international media. B'Tselem claimed that the... more
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Caroline Glick (Jan 04, 2011)
The Israeli Left was once an optimistic place. But that is no longer the case. It once promised peace and happiness. But that is no longer the case.
Today the Left is... more