Israeli Election: Journalist Caroline Glick Joins Bennett and Shaked's New Party

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Israeli Election: Journalist Caroline Glick Joins Bennett and Shaked's New Party
Glick, who writes for Jerusalem Post and Breitbart, is the latest addition to Hayamin Hehadash
Haaretz, Jan 2, 2019

Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post's deputy managing editor, has joined Hayamin Hehadash, the new party launched by hawkish ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked after they split from Habayit Hayehudi.

Ahead of the 2015 polls, the U.S.-born controversial columnist had been considered for a spot on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and had publicly supported him. Netanyahu is "the right man to head our government and lead the nation in the coming years," she said in a 2015 Facebook post.

Glick was an assistant foreign policy adviser to Netanyahu during his first term as prime minister, in the 1990s. She founded the right-wing satirical news website Latma in 2009 and served as its chief editor, and has written for the Makor Rishon newspaper and Breitbart, an American right-wing website which is sometimes affiliated with the so-called alt-right movement.

Glick is known as an opponent of the two-state solution. In 2014, she published a book entitled "The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East," in which she disputes Palestinian demographic statistics – saying the number of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are grossly exaggerated.

Glick said she would apply Israeli law to the West Bank, which in her plan would be integrated into Israel along with its Palestinian inhabitants. The plan doesn’t encompass the Gaza Strip because, she has argued, by withdrawing from it in 2005 Israel voided its claim to territory or sovereignty there. “Gaza is an independent state,” she said.


https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/israeli-election-journalist-caroline-glick-joins-bennett-and-shaked-s-new-party-1.6804919

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When Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked asked me to join their new party and run with them in the upcoming elections, I decided that now is the time,” she said.

“Israel faces major challenges and I look forward to working as a lawmaker to ensure we meet and surpass them,” Glick added.

“Caroline is an articulate person with clear-cut right-wing views and does not apologize for it,” stated Bennett. “Caroline is a brave woman and a Zionist fighter. Together with her, we are forming the elite of the Israeli right wing in order to increase the right-wing bloc — and so that Israel will go back to winning again.”
 
Shaked, who currently serves as justice minister, called Glick “a courageous fighter symbolizing the real, pure, conservative Right. She will be a great addition to the Knesset from our side.”

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Early Israeli elections were called for April 9 after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition agreed to disband ahead of the scheduled date of elections in November. The move has been widely seen as a gambit by Netanyahu to bolster electoral support as he faces three corruption investigations.

Glick will run on the New Right’s slate and would join the Knesset if her party garners enough seats for her spot on its list of candidates.


https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/01/02/breitbart-news-columnist-caroline-glick-joins-israeli-new-right-party-ahead-of-election/

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Very surprising that she didn't join Netanyahu and the Likud.