JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick appointed as adviser to Netanyahu

Israeli-American columnist and JNS senior contributing editor Caroline B. Glick is returning to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem to serve as International Affairs Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Glick, who worked with Netanyahu over a quarter century ago before becoming a widely read columnist, took up her new position on Sunday, almost three years after the first episode of her record-breaking “The Caroline Glick Show” premiered on JNS TV in 2022.

“Life takes you in different directions, and I am going back to the office where I worked nearly three decades ago as the prime minister leads Israel through the most difficult period in the history of the Jewish state,” she said. “I take it as a profound compliment that at this critical juncture in our history, Prime Minister Netanyahu has asked me to join him as he continues his historic fight to secure the future of the Jewish state and people.”

Glick, who has been a critic of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, said the war has been especially hard because of the difficulty in getting the hostages seized by the terror group out of Gaza alive via a military operation. Some 250 men, women and children were taken during the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023; about 70 remain.

Netanyahu is still committed to annihilating Hamas and ensuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel, she said, two of Jerusalem’s three declared war goals which, she added, have not been met yet.

Glick warmly endorsed U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle some of Gaza’s residents in Egypt or Jordan, calling it a “brilliant and feasible” idea that Israel should actively pursue, despite public opposition to the move by the two neighboring Arab countries.

She noted that in the past, Egypt has transferred two islands to Saudi Arabia and said the proposal could help Israel achieve its war aims.

The coming year offers historic opportunities for change in the Middle East in the wake of the 16-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and more recently, Trump’s re-election. The president is working toward a peace deal with Saudi Arabia and on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

“The strategic landscape of the Middle East has been transformed by Israel’s accomplishments in the war, and this affords us the opportunity both to expand our circle of ties and prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capability, which is a requirement for Israel’s survival,” she said.

On a personal note, Glick, 55, who was born in Houston and raised in Chicago, said her husband and children will also have to get used to her new role starting next week.

“My family is going to have to eat a lot of TV dinners or learn how to cook,” she said.