One of Israel’s most fearless spokespersons is Caroline Glick, the International Affairs Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The author of two books and hundreds of articles in major Israeli and international newspapers, she is known for confronting even the most brazen critics of Israel among the diplomatic elite.
At a Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem on April 28, she urged her audience to see the real battle Israel is facing between “the eternal people versus the eternal hatred.” She said antisemitism’s goal is not the subjugation of the Jews. Rather, it is annihilationist, intending to completely eradicate them.
Critical of the Oslo Accords (1993), which foresaw the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and on the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), she called the agreement an ill-fated attempt to appease the enemy with land, money and weapons. This fantasy was doomed to fail.
Whether it is the Palestinian Authority, Hamas or any related groups, they unanimously adhere to two fundamental, unchangeable principles:
1. There is no recognition of Israel ever.
2. The unceasing teaching of children to “aspire to the genocide of Jewry.”
The October 7 massacre proved Hamas’ genocidal goals beyond any doubt. Receiving billions of dollars of aid, Hamas could have turned Gaza into Singapore, but chose to create another Afghanistan instead. Israel’s generals had made a fatal mistake believing Hamas was deterred from terrorism.
Bill Clinton once said 99 percent of Middle East problems could be solved by the creation of a Palestinian state. By this reasoning, Israel was at fault for extending the conflict by not agreeing to create a state. That argument is flawed to the core. When terrorism is halted, peace is the result. When terrorism is rewarded with a state, however, it only enshrines violence with international legitimacy.
Glick declared that no nation on earth has a stronger right to a homeland than the Jewish people, a right received on Mount Sinai, a historical and legal right that cannot be taken away.