On September 8 – 2015, Caroline Glick, senior editor and columnist at the Jerusalem Post and Amir Oren, senior political and strategic correspondent of Ha’aretz, debated at JPC the relationship of president Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Ms. Glick said that never before has an American President deviated from the traditional US Mideast policy like President Obama did, and that Mr. Netanyahu was right in fighting for Israel’s interests, even at the cost of confronting the President. Mr. Oren said that Mr. Netanyahu did what no previous Israeli Prime Minister has done before – confronting head-on and publicly an American President, thus harming Israel’s interests.
About the speakers:
Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing and chief columnist for The Jerusalem Post. She is also a senior columnist for Maariv. She is the author of The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, (Crown 2014) and of Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad (Gefen 2008).
Glick is the director of the Israeli Security Project at the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles, and the adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. She travels frequently to the US and Canada and lectures widely on strategic and political issues affecting global security, Israel and the Jewish people and US-Israel relations.
Glick is the founder and editor of the Hebrew language satirical media criticism website Latma. In 2015 Latma launched “Hakol Shafit,” (We’ll be the Judge), a primetime, half hour satirical newscast on Israel television Channel 1. Glick serves as the editor in chief of the program.
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Amir Oren writes on government, military affairs, intelligence, and foreign policy for Haaretz daily and is the newspaper’s defense and government columnist, as well as editorial board member.
Oren has covered from the front lines – and several times, behind enemy lines – as well as from the most closely guarded Mossad and military headquarters Israel’s wars, clandestine operations and secret investigations since 1969. He has extensive contacts in the intelligence community, law enforcement system and regulatory and investigative bodies.
Oren’s television work includes special programs on the Mossad and on Israel’s wartime decision making. He is a frequent commentator for U.S. networks (CBS, CNN) as well as for Israeli TV and radio. In the 1970’s he has worked for Israel’s New York Ministry of Defense Mission and as a Congressional Liaison for Israel’s Washington Embassy. In the mid-80’s he was sent to Washington again as his newspaper’s United States Bureau Chief, covering crucial events in U.S.-Israeli relations such as the Jonathan Pollard affair.
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