About the Author

Chicago native Caroline B. Glick, moved to Israel in 1991 after receiving her BA in Political Science from Columbia University, and joined the Israeli army where she served as an officer for five and a half years. In her last three years of military service, Glick was a core member of Israel s negotiating team with the PLO. She was later appointed to serve as then Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's assistant foreign policy advisor. After leaving government in 1998, Glick received a Master s in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She then returned to Israel where she was hired as a senior commentator and editor at Makor Rishon newspaper (Hebrew). In 2002, Glick joined the Jerusalem Post as senior columnist and deputy managing editor. During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 she was one of the only female journalists on the front lines with US infantry forces, reporting for the Jerusalem Post, Maariv, Israel TV s Channel 2 and the Chicago Sun Times. Ms. Glick writes two regularly syndicated weekly columns for the Jerusalem Post and a monthly column for the Jewish Press. Her writings, which have also been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Times, and other leading magazines and newspapers, focus on the strategic and political issues challenging Israel and the United States. Ms. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Wash