She is the author of Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad, (Gefen Publishers, 2008) Caroline B. Glick produced a compendium of remarkable essays that had appeared in publications like the Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Press, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Times, and other leading magazines.
In the words of R. James Woolsey, former director of U.S.Central Intelligence, these essays are “straight-from-the-shoulder prose along the lines of the writings in the 1930s of George Orwell and Winston Churchill, but on today’s manifestations of the issues those men confronted so brilliantly.”
It was with great delight that I met in these words my own assessment of Caroline Glick’s writing – admittedly a complex task. For Ms. Glick is not only a brilliant journalist: she is a composite of political thinker, moral critic, courageous fighter and above all, a proud Jew.
Who is this Wonder Woman? Caroline B. Glick, the daughter of Sharon and Gerald Glick, grew up, in her words, “in Chicago’s ultra-liberal, anti-American and anti-Israel stronghold of Hyde Park,” adding: “Hyde Park’s newest famous resident is Barack Obama. He fits right into a neighborhood I couldn’t wait to leave.”
And leave she did. In 1991, two weeks after receiving her Bachelor’s in political science from Columbia University (Beir Zeit on the Hudson, in her words) in New York, the charming young brunette headed for Israel – and for a new career. She committed five and a half years to the service of her country as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces. Of these, two years as an IDF captain, she was a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians, becoming closely acquainted with the vital issues involved in these and gaining keen insights that later served as source material for her incisive essays.
Leaving the IDF at the end of 1996, she worked for about a year as the assistant to the director general of the Israel Antiquities Authority and then returned to geo-politics serving for the next year as assistant foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
After a two-year stint in the U.S. to receive a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, she headed for Israel and a new career once again: this time in the press. In March 2002, Caroline became the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, writing two weekly regularly syndicated columns.
This, however, was not all. Wonder Woman Glick covered the U.S.-led war in Iraq as an embedded journalist with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, the only female journalists on the front lines with the U.S. forces. Reporting not only for the Jerusalem Post, but also for Maariv, Israel Television’s Channel 2 and the Chicago Sun Times, Caroline Glick was one of the first Israeli journalists to report from liberated Baghdad!
In no time, Caroline’s brilliant journalistic writing appeared in major newspapers and magazines worldwide, like The Wall Street Journal, The National Review, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun Times, The Washington Times, The Jewish Press, Frontpage Magazine and Moment Magazine, and countless online journals.
Caroline Glick’s activities extend to other facets too numerous to mention, like serving as the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and traveling several times a year to the U.S. capital for briefing senior administration officials and members of Congress on issues of joint Israeli-American concern.
It did not come as a surprise when in 2003 I read that Ma’ariv’s Independence Day Supplement named Caroline Glick the most outstanding woman in Israel, followed by the Zionist Organization of America bestowing on her the “Ben Hecht Award for Middle East Reporting” in December 2005, and a month later, Israel Media Watch – the “Abramowitz Prize for Media Criticism.”
Caroline Glick renders redundant the proverbial question, “Woman of Valor Who Shall Find?”