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/CarolineGlick http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ You can learn a lot about a nation's health by watching how it celebrates its national holidays. In Israel's case, compare how we celebrated our 50th Independence Day in 1998 to what celebrations involve... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/04/28/postzionism_is_so_1990s dd587ba3-43fd-4c78-bd15-9ac1f4fb6514 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Hatred of Jews is the central animating feature of the political and strategic reality of the Middle East. It is hatred of Jews that dictates the legal regimes, foreign policies, military aspirations, cultural mores,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/04/20/the_elephant_of_jew_hatred 2ca020d3-3e05-434b-ae47-0f920342a4bb Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:58:00 GMT Hamas terror boss Fathi Hamad is a notable figure. Hamad is both the director of Hamas's al-Aksa television station and the terror group's "minister" of the interior and national security. His double portfolio is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/04/07/the_eternal_liberation_movement 0d48e5a6-ec71-4b03-9df0-7a14b06fa556 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT I went to the US Consulate this week to take care of certain family business. It was a thoroughly unpleasant experience. I think it is ironic that two days after my extremely unpleasant experience at the consulate,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/03/31/the_state_departments_jerusalem_syndrome 5ee39bb1-89fa-49d7-a7d7-3d6f7d5df673 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT The massacre of Jewish children at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse presents us with an appalling encapsulation of the depraved nature of our times - although at first glance, the opposite seems to be the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/03/26/mohamed_merah__man_of_the_west bccc2e0b-3e8c-402c-ac67-c6c572bfd4b6 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:23:00 GMT I just read the horrible news that Andrew Breitbart has died. I send from Jerusalem my heartfelt condolences to his widow and children. I watched Andrew's speech at CPAC on YouTube and have to admit that I thought he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/03/02/andrew_breitbart_rip 3a0face3-01d4-4085-8cb6-e26a8027b8ec Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:58:00 GMT This morning I received an e-mail alert from CAMERA that my alma mater, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is hosting a two-day conference which essentially begins with the proposition that Israel has no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/02/20/harvard_jew_haters_motherhood_and_israel 872bc20f-5149-45ed-bcaa-34b103ac817e Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT On Monday afternoon, the Palestinians destroyed officially whatever was left of the concept of a peace process with Israel. When PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas signed a deal with Hamas terror-master... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/02/10/the_fatahhamas_peace_process e1981bb8-40cb-41ed-93d8-03806e2d9a2a Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:01:00 GMT The Obama administration is absolutely furious at Russia and China. The two UN Security Council permanent members' move on Saturday to veto a resolution on Syria utterly infuriated US President Barack Obama, Secretary... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/02/07/obamas_rhetorical_storm 7d773f58-9b1b-4e4b-abaa-e42fd57ba46d Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:30:00 GMT Former US congressman Robert Wexler is a man worth listening to. Wexler served as then-senator Barack Obama's chief booster in the American Jewish community during the 2008 presidential campaign. He appeared everywhere... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/02/03/fool_me_twice 61945015-87c3-4601-8c75-27d6a44e0723 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:00 GMT To date, the Republican presidential primary race has been the only place to have generated any useful contributions to America's collective understanding of current events in the Middle East. Last month, former Speaker... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/01/31/hamas_and_the_washington_establishment 7c5c1df7-2cca-4934-b5c2-f9bdb807f57e Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:40:00 GMT European and American perfidy in dealing with Iran's nuclear weapons program apparently has no end. This week we were subject to banner headlines announcing that the EU has decided to place an oil embargo on Iran. It... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/01/27/the_zionist_imperative e91e8f3c-ea57-4941-ae1b-f654f34c699b Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:36:00 GMT A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's feet. One year later, Mubarak and his sons are in prison, and standing trial. This week, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/01/25/america_and_the_arab_spring 0a7bc02e-a93d-400f-8384-c5d5a5d821db Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:20:00 GMT Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable. Proof of this dismal state of affairs came this week with the publication of a supportive profile... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/01/20/mainstreaming_antisemitism f8753fdc-cc52-4c0a-ac1b-e3dc42a1268f Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:33:00 GMT One of the declared goals of the Netanyahu government is to ensure that Israeli schoolchildren receive a strong Zionist education. To this end, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed Gideon Sa'ar as his education... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/01/17/netanyahus_postzionist_education_ministry c9a84d47-2faa-4d04-ab62-a663af48bfde Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:02:00 GMT The rise of the forces of jihadist Islam in Egypt places the US and other Western powers in an uncomfortable position. The US is the guarantor of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. That treaty is based on the proposition... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/01/06/the_landforpeace_hoax e91985c8-8305-4b1a-ab52-4d76bd405d9c Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:21:00 GMT On balance, Israeli society is extremely healthy. Unemployment is at record lows. At a time of global recession, the Israeli economy is growing steadily. Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2012/01/03/is_israeli_society_unraveling 9bdf7730-455c-4834-89a1-38db9dec60a3 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:09:00 GMT 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 had as much freedom of action in domestic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/30/obamas_foreign_policy_spin 32bb6135-82a3-4279-8951-bfe98d3df08e Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:30:00 GMT 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 to major general and appointing him to serve... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/28/netanyahus_misleading_lessons_in_governance 6cbb04f5-c619-401a-bad6-18043c33fe7b Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:27:00 GMT For decades New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman balanced his substantively anti-Israel positions with repeated protestations of love for Israel. His balancing act ended last week when he employed traditional... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/20/tom_friedmans_losing_battle b9fc7d54-4715-41d7-92ee-8f69fa7e21ac Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:07:00 GMT 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 dozen people surrounded by hundreds of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/17/violent_rioters_and_media_goons bdb4ad15-8139-44a5-8a06-8a80575ef255 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT 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 Palestinians. In an interview with The Jewish... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/13/gingrichs_fresh_hope f4c60ecb-e388-44d3-8f64-3de38738647c Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:28:00 GMT 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 the Knesset and the government. Beinisch... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/10/democracy_strikes_back 69b029e3-fb75-4e92-9aba-6413713c455a Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT 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. The first round of voting took place in Egypt's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/06/an_ally_no_more ad31ca5c-5de6-4ae0-8071-f42aa3eef87a Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:39:00 GMT 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 media is rife with speculation that the war with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/12/02/the_real_war_in_iran d0aeceb8-7bb8-4ae8-997d-7ec732efaf38 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:25:00 GMT 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 withdrawal date has fomented little discussion in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/11/25/calling_things_by_their_proper_names 123393f2-e878-47ae-bee3-675ddd1b0794 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:11:00 GMT 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 referred to as "clientitis." Clientitis is generally... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/11/25/the_scourge_of_clientitis 63de90f7-29ee-4867-b840-e4dab8cd531f Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT 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 Israel's self-described human rights... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/11/15/defending_israeli_democracy 988b6fb7-08d2-4a05-a507-c0f889ddf925 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT 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 well as repugnant. Thinking no one other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/11/12/with_friends_like_these 6662b429-0ce7-443d-89d4-36f5c5e85011 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT 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 possibility of an imminent Israeli or American... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/11/09/waiting_out_obama 89574972-542f-4bd9-b0c3-b4505d58c6c1 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:46:00 GMT 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 state of war with Israel. And they are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/11/07/delegitimizing_the_delegitimizers 888d7e72-90fe-4d4d-a4fb-971ea4596239 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:51:00 GMT 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 of the scene was destroyed in a moment, when a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/10/31/whither_the_idf ef044455-e297-43ce-9c46-f6d7d4be4655 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:44:00 GMT 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 around Judea, Samaria and Gaza promising to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/10/21/marketing_gilad_schalit 80f85cb8-89e6-4ae0-bba1-825694eb5658 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:52:00 GMT 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 Obama has no intention in taking action to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/10/20/irans_war_to_win 96fc1509-84dc-46f6-b49a-225bc6fb69aa Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:32:00 GMT 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 their son St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit was abducted... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/10/14/a_pact_signed_in_jewish_blood f4b2fb81-320b-46f3-9db9-b5dd5cfab444 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:38:00 GMT 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 ancient Christian community of some 8 million whose... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/10/11/the_forgotten_christians_of_the_east 603c6fab-7718-44bb-bb59-6308e763d3f6 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:00:00 GMT 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 for the American Jewish community. Pollard... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/10/07/justice_for_jonathan_pollard 10d422ce-c5e4-4872-9c3f-e5ffa492e1e9 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:21:00 GMT 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, Tunisia and Libya. The Arabs embraced him as the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/10/04/turkeys_house_of_cards ac9ce200-7ad4-4760-bace-133ca985056f Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:29:00 GMT 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 him for his speech at the UN. There, Abbas erased... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/28/a_prayer_for_5772 c9e4f9c4-0f08-4f06-a2ee-5c99e72289e5 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:13:00 GMT 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 Israelis this has been a central issue... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/23/the_perils_of_a_remilitarized_sinai 81ff6608-19e1-43e6-bf51-e9078f54d1da Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:20:00 GMT Speaking Sunday at the UN's conference of donors to the Palestinian Authority, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon warned that while Israel supports economic assistance to the PA now, that is liable to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/20/funding_the_enemy 611eca73-6b74-4727-9989-61b5a99dd02d Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:38:00 GMT 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 conflict with Israel. In a nutshell, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/16/the_palestinian_obsession ae488b16-3c89-493b-96b7-0dc3d9bbeb34 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:52:00 GMT 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 brink of being slaughtered were rescued at the last... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/13/lessons_from_the_embassy_takeover c88b3922-37f6-46d5-82ed-7eb3be6b77ed Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:10:00 GMT 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 on, America is still at war. Ten years... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/10/the_war_america_fights 95d9d1e6-c6b7-4537-8f4d-22cd968a5c36 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:13:00 GMT 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 voters and donors upset by Obama's hostility to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/08/american_jews_and_the_liberal_art_of_demonization 6173236d-54fd-4f48-8f7c-f22275c18815 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT Monday morning Turkey took its anti-Israel campaign to a new level. Beyond downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel; beyond suspending military agreements; beyond threatening naval war; beyond threatening to foment... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/06/ankaras_chosen_scapegoat 721d2e54-f851-45c8-b77f-36acc39c49b4 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:28:00 GMT 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 United Nations Transparency, Accountability and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/09/02/cliche-based_foreign_policy 2ae402ce-513b-4004-b057-ff304eae02ca Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:57:00 GMT 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 Israelis this has been a central issue under... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/08/30/the_perils_of_a_remilitarized_sinai dc4cbce3-3243-414d-bda9-ed7d45a50979 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:10:00 GMT 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 causes of Israel's difficulty in telling its... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/08/26/glenn_becks_revealing_visit 86b98155-9030-408b-ac44-ec6ab118a106 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:16:00 GMT 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. In Judea and Samaria, from 1994 through 2000,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2011/08/19/blood_in_the_streets 69c8109f-cfad-495d-8fb6-37cef02db886 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:49:00 GMT