Counterintuitive, brash, original. All are good ways to describe Caroline Glick. Her latest book, advocating for one state, both for Israelis and Palestinians, may be her most inventive argument yet.
Now I can finally answer affirmatively one of the questions I’m asked most frequently. Whenever I’m introduced as a Jerusalem Post columnist prior to delivering a speech I can count on at least one member of the audience approaching me afterward and asking “Do you know Caroline Glick?” Glick is the paper’s superstar its must-read columnist and her popularity extends far beyondIsrael’s borders.
Last week I spent several hours with her discussing the imminent release of her new book The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East. I always find it easier to interview people if I have some feel for who they are. Fortunately Glick and I quickly found enough common elements in our background to ease the subsequent discussion.
She grew up in the same Hyde Park neighborhood ofChicagowhere I spent four years in college at theUniversityofChicago. Her family attended the same synagogue where my grandfather and great-uncle served as president. And we had similar Zionist upbringings.
While still in grade school she tells me she grew disillusioned with American Jewry in the aftermath of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in which Christian Phalangists killed Palestinians in revenge for the assassination of newly elected Lebanese president Bashir Gemayel. She was appalled by the readiness of American Jewry to accept blame uponIsraelfor not having anticipated a possible Phalangist attack.
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