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 http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:05:21 GMT Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:05:21 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Both the challenges of war and the challenges of politics are challenges of leadership. And both military strategists and political strategists agree that the most basic leadership challenge in both arenas is to know... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2008/09/05/john_mccain,_master_strategist 4a4b8ca4-8ba8-4b14-b89f-58e2cf5176a8 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:05:21 GMT Many American Jewish observers welcomed Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joseph Biden as his vice-presidential running mate. As a member of the Senate since 1973, and the serving chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2008/08/30/with_biden_on_board,_can_obama_be_trusted 3be4215b-9e4b-4817-a689-e3d4f393a9b7 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:38:19 GMT Monday will mark the third anniversary of the forcible expulsion of the Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria from their homes. Those expulsions were followed weeks later by the withdrawal of IDF personnel from the Gaza... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2008/08/08/ignoring_failure_in_gaza 8ce3cd83-b341-4b3f-9121-d72a01c2e9b6 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:39:28 GMT After the dust settled on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's surprise announcement Wednesday evening that he will resign from office after Kadima's leadership primary on September 17, the main question is, What possessed him... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2008/08/01/column_one_kadimas_legacy_of_nothingness 6a6b3bc9-b79d-4f35-831e-95c745cad0e0 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:55:47 GMT It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyeh was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future. On January 30, French... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2008/02/16/mughniyehs_true_legacy 8589b680-2de1-4914-8d5a-9e9c8fe69ded Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT It is hard to believe, but in just two weeks, American voters will all but determine the identities of the Democratic and Republican nominees for this year's presidential elections. It is hard to believe because today,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2008/01/21/the_audacity_of_truth 47bde701-9a71-41cd-ad7a-aa95f10a228c Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:44:06 GMT US President George W. Bush arrived in Israel at the start of an eight-day tour of the Middle East at an interesting moment. In the lead-up to his trip, enemy forces, of both the terrorist and statxe variety, clarified... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2008/01/12/george_in_jihadland 3d818458-a91d-4a96-8610-5466f7759490 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice introduced a new venue for her superficial and destructive stewardship of US foreign policy during her lightning visit to the Horn of Africa last Wednesday. The Horn of Africa... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/12/11/condis_african_holiday 5e29a935-5a1a-4b66-8e24-b6e3cb51b66d Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:32:22 GMT US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's opinion of Russian President Vladimir Putin seems directly correlated to his hostility toward America. The more hostility he shows, the more she seems to like him. In this vein,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/11/03/the_results_of_brilliant_theories d21eb468-975b-4a51-bf67-150090698872 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:00:31 GMT According to the commander of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, Israel's raid in Syria on September 6 against what was reportedly a North Korean-supplied nuclear installation in eastern Syria restored... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/09/22/how_not_to_help_moderates 6a3cc490-5ea9-4954-97e2-1949094fcded Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:55:55 GMT If media reports of last week's IAF raid in Syria pan out, the attack against a North-Korean-supplied Syrian nuclear facility in eastern Syria should serve as a pivotal event in the free world's understanding of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/09/18/our_world_recognizing_the_axis_of_evil 17e071d5-e0eb-4e3d-86f8-3ea54e7fa89c Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:30:39 GMT General David Petreaus and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker's long-anticipated Congressional testimonies this week were edifying on two levels. First, they told us a lot about the complex and challenging nature of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/09/12/column_one_where_america_and_iraq_converge 8e0072ed-d2a7-4fd4-b858-04c30a744f06 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:34:17 GMT Prime Minister Ehud Olmert couldn't have looked more pathetic when he responded this week to a rocket attack on a day care center in Sderot by writing a letter of complaint to the United Nations. But what is he to do?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/09/08/the_imperatives_of_war 7617ed18-bf76-456c-aff8-b7df4c53122c Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT One by one the warriors ascended the stage Sunday evening to receive their commendations for battlefield valor and heroism during the war with Hizbullah last summer. Showing no emotion, they stood stiffly at attention... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/09/04/our_world_of_men_and_mice 3e85b607-4420-4ef5-bde2-5b0e7ec8c4b1 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:58:45 GMT As the cliché goes, "A conservative is a liberal whose been mugged by reality." Like most clichés, this one exposes a larger truth. Namely, people often base their views on their fantasies of how the world should be,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/08/25/the_rise_of_the_fantasists 0246ad12-d137-4dfd-b53a-0404ca4a1b9f Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:00:03 GMT Education Minister Yuli Tamir has been much in the news. Two weeks ago she went on a well-publicized visit to authoritarian Singapore to learn the secret of its school system's success. Tamir summed up her visit in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/08/21/our_world_israels_reeducation_minister 8b1ad89d-03fb-440a-b1fe-93ab93a32877 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:59:47 GMT Sometimes terror doesn't have to pay. Reports last week that Fatah Prime Minister Salaam Fayad had paid the annual salaries of members of Hamas's army in Gaza caused US Congressman Eric Cantor to shoot off a livid... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/08/18/salaam_fayad,_hero_of_israel 80caa070-5699-439f-a8f2-eabd1e3892cf Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:01:00 GMT Building and maintaining coalitions is one of the most difficult tasks of a nation at war. On the one hand, a state must ensure that its coalition partners share enough common goals and interests to ensure that their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/08/11/coalitions,_real_and_imaginary fa67417c-42d2-4ab6-8844-34bd0adb8d9e Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:01:00 GMT Two major arms sales were announced over the weekend. First, the US announced that it is planning to sell Saudi Arabia $20 billion in advanced weapons systems, including Joint Direct Attack Munition kits or JDAMs that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/07/31/our_world_americas_best_friends 742c71a0-3aa5-4c17-ad6f-bfe88517d1dd Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:21:28 GMT Iran and its client state Syria have a strategic vision for the Middle East. They wish to take over Lebanon. They wish to destroy Israel. They wish to defeat the US in Iraq. They wish to drive the US and NATO from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/06/19/our_world_grounded_in_fantasy 9efedfc0-4fa9-4a17-8664-8ef1c714bd90 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:18:18 GMT Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's meeting with US President George W. Bush next week is supposed to serve as a preparatory stage ahead of a planned presidential address on the Palestinian conflict with Israel. According to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/06/17/the_president_speaks b87fec29-90f6-4a4a-b547-91fb8435fe4e Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:02:33 GMT Tomorrow Israel's parliamentarians will convene to elect the next president of Israel. After Shas's council of elders decided last week to throw the party's support behind Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres's candidacy,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/06/13/our_world_peress_big_day 875b3c60-c8b0-4e1d-89a6-4612168f6322 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Over the past week, Ma'ariv has reported on two separate diplomatic initiatives that seem to be coming into line. First, there is the possibility that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will open negotiations with Syria on the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/05/28/statecraft_in_the_absence_of_statesmen 43fd894e-a4ef-434e-bdf7-d183ab95ffb3 Mon, 28 May 2007 04:00:24 GMT The Olmert-Livni-Peretz government is incapable of learning. This is the only possible explanation for its handling of the Palestinian assault on southern Israel which has seen some 200 rockets and missiles fall on Sder http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/05/22/our_world_denial_is_not_a_strategy 30e64eda-ea0d-4f28-8a83-8a031db69007 Tue, 22 May 2007 13:42:20 GMT Monday, The New York Times reported that in just a few weeks, Iran will be capable of building nuclear bombs. The Times report, which was largely substantiated by the Chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency M http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/05/19/the_master_politician_and_us abf3bf1e-12c9-4d7e-82f6-025662b9fa9a Sat, 19 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT In an interview last Friday with Ma'ariv, former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon expressed his view that the ongoing debate in Israel regarding the solution to the conflict with the Palestinians http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/05/12/what_is_israels_problem b5eb697b-6fba-41b3-89cf-caff0aa39976 Sat, 12 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT The common wisdom in Washington these days is that the Americans will leave Iraq by the end of President George W. Bush's presidency regardless of the situation on the ground. This view is based on the proposition that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/04/14/the_long_road_to_victory f088e726-6c70-4f2b-81ea-f664db9de666 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:43:31 GMT In an open act of war, Iran Friday kidnapped 15 British soldiers in the Persian Gulf. Iran's act of aggression occurred just as the British voted in favor of a UN Security Council resolution imposing increased sanctions... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/03/27/our_world_condis_embrace_of_jihadist_peace d3acad00-38ea-45c3-b65a-2a838fdeccc4 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:48:19 GMT In Israel, as in the rest of the free world, we are witnessing the death by a thousand cuts of free thought. Last month, two students at Cambridge University's Clare College became victims of this state of affairs.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/03/24/the_road_to_serfdom 9947ca24-6c62-4516-a950-f46cca504734 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT Last week it was reported that major supporters of Brandeis University have cut off their donations in retaliation for the university's hosting of Israel and American-Jewry basher and former president Jimmy Carter on http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/03/06/brandeiss_jewish_problem 41dc5f05-8fce-4989-998c-23e4da24313e Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:30:32 GMT The general tendency of Westerners is to view global jihad as a foreign policy issue. But today it is clear that it is also a domestic policy issue. Over the weekend The Sunday Telegraph reported that a recently... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/03/05/our_world_jihads_campus_collaborators e817c992-4425-42cc-9a81-5f6b11377faf Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:00:01 GMT It is impossible to guess the consequences of the approaching showdown between the US and Iran. But if the events of the past week are any guide, the future does not look promising. President George W. Bush asserted... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/02/17/column_one_bushs_inevitable_showdown da24bf2c-fc8f-4bdd-aeaa-3f47e7b3bbe3 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:59:20 GMT Israel prides itself on being the only democracy in the Middle East. But if we are not careful, we will lose that distinction. Today Israel finds itself increasingly under the rule not of law, but of lawyers. And the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2007/01/23/the_rule_of_lawyers 53c3a5d8-30bc-4107-bf2f-336e403b0cb2 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:12:15 GMT When the history of our times is written, this week will be remembered as the week that Washington decided to let the Islamic Republic of Iran go nuclear. Hopefully it will also be remembered as the moment the Jews... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/12/10/jews_wake_up! 14f2ec3c-38b6-44bc-9b54-6011d7787450 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:58:31 GMT British Prime Minister Tony Blair has gone on an appeasement spree and no one seems to mind. On Friday, Blair gave a marquis interview to Al-Jazeera's new psychological warfare platform - its English-language channel -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/11/20/after_the_muses_fall_silent 5158324b-3ac9-466a-b2c2-d634dfc0f951 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:37:30 GMT To the delight of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, an international coalition has coalesced around Iran's nuclear weapons program. In his remarks Tuesday in Los Angeles before the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/11/17/israels_delighted_leaders cd62da03-26e8-4d5e-9072-411a3bba4918 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:19:10 GMT Many downplay the significance of the US Congressional elections. It is the six-year slump, they say. But the truth is nonetheless glaring. By all accounts, Tuesday the George W. Bush era came to a close. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/11/11/olmerts_ill-timed_washington_visit 479a8cac-db1d-4f46-ad08-5374a84369a0 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:00:45 GMT US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's speech at the American Task Force for Palestine's inaugural dinner in Washington on Wednesday evening was but the latest sign that America's alliance with Israel is weakening.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/10/14/soros_moves_on_to_israel b7724206-c2e8-46ce-a443-f7e898eb7be9 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:00:37 GMT It would seem that Karl Marx got things backwards. History does not repeat itself first as tragedy and then as farce. Rather, it repeats itself first as farce and second as tragedy. This, perhaps more than anything else... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/10/10/historys_dangerous_repetition 4f6ad49f-460c-46c1-9c31-1fe7a8661a75 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:40:45 GMT Sunday Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy presided over a hearing on a petition submitted by one Shimshon Cytryn requesting to be released from Dekel prison and placed under house arrest. Justice Levy deferred his ruling... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/09/04/shimshon_cytryn_and_aharon_barak 6f51eaf1-9218-4567-91a8-b282a133551e Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:21:24 GMT There is a good reason that Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between his jihad army and the State of Israel. The resolution... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/08/13/an_unmitigated_disaster ab8c8c7a-8b46-4302-9df3-50476a6a9c98 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:21:15 GMT During his tour this week of European capitals, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that in addition to Judea and Samaria, he plans to transfer a number of neighborhoods in Jerusalem to Hamas. In his words,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/07/02/ehud_olmerts_plan_for_jerusalem 51fac410-5f60-4a9e-bbe4-c95e61a05bf0 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT Since replacing Ariel Sharon in office last December, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has refused to permit a large-scale IDF incursion into the Gaza Strip. The hundreds of rockets, mortars and missiles that have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/07/01/olmert_doesnt_get_it ca0d7e63-c02b-47bf-9e5f-4a9b547c9b75 Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:01:00 GMT As is its habit, the Israeli media missed this week's big story. While our television channels, mass circulation dailies and publicly funded radio stations were scope-locked on the tragedy of children in Gaza killed and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/06/26/north_korea_and_israel b0506333-3938-4c91-a391-bc48239c5660 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:01:00 GMT Wednesday Canada's National Post published an error correction. Last Friday, the newspaper's lead story reported that the Iranian parliament had approved legislation that would compel Jews to wear a yellow strip,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/05/27/hitler_is_still_dead fe8f432a-55cb-4365-91cd-2f5022732f39 Sat, 27 May 2006 12:05:00 GMT You have to give them credit. The Palestinians outdid themselves this week. In the framework of the maelstrom over the presumed financial crisis of the Hamas-led PA, the supposedly "moderate" Fatah... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/05/20/the_newest_palestinian_crisis 87fa69be-ebc3-4a7d-9bc1-b674b440cc81 Sat, 20 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT On Monday, Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that part of Ukraine's Soviet-era nuclear arsenal may well have found its way to Iran. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainians agreed to transfer the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/04/08/the_rise_of_the_islamist_axis 7735b589-0449-4e80-92a0-4ab1e42b6e1c Sat, 08 Apr 2006 04:05:00 GMT On the eve of Israel's general parliamentary elections next Tuesday, the Jewish state faces multiple faces multiple challenges. Hamas, in appointing technocrats and terrorists to run its new government in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/03/20/israels_uninformed_electorate 8d4c9d8d-f43c-4232-bded-c38cafa5ab83 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:05:00 GMT Israel's election campaign presents an unparalleled challenge to Israelis on both the Right and the Left who care about the issues challenging the country. Today, not only do they have to defend what they believe, they... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/03/15/seinfeld_vs_churchill 482dcb54-3ff5-43b9-96a5-38148a8fec44 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:06:00 GMT Ilan Halimi's barbarous murder in France should awaken all Jews to the most significant truth of our times: Today, every Jew in the world is on the front lines of war. As was the case 70 years ago, every Jew today is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2006/02/26/ilan_halimi_and_israel 986fa31d-dd5a-408e-b40c-3507ed578326 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:05:00 GMT