Caroline Glick: The Media Think The Iran War Is Over, They’re Sorely Mistaken!

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Just like Hamas was shooting at us from the schools and from the hospitals and the churches and the mosque. So the same thing goes for Kbala in Lebanon. And this really brings us to the biggest problem that we're facing right now that they've copied from the Ukraine Russia war this drone uh technology which is run by fiber optic cables and they're very very dangerous because they can fly very low and they've caused massive devastation. We can't accept that it will continue to exist.

[00:00:29]Hi. So, as usual here, a lot of things are happening in the news. A lot of things are hitting the uh airwaves and the newspapers. And our job is usually to get the whole thing and make some, as we say in in Hebrew, Sedil, to arrange things and let you understand and get some insights. So, who better to have here than Caroline Glick, who's the international affairs adviser to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyao to share with us the uh not only the insights, but also the knowledge of what is happening. LA last few days there's this possibility of uh an agreement in Iran. From the Israeli perspective, the issues are Lebanon are what is important to us. How they affect the the negotiations there if at all and what is Israel doing at the moment? What the prime minister yesterday was in the news here in Israel explaining to the Israeli population that uh we will do everything necessary to defend our civilians. Can you elaborate on that a little more?

[00:01:24]>> Sure. It's great to be back at JNS with you. Uh thanks for having me Danny. So I think you know people have to understand uh abroad Israelis certainly understand it is that Lebanon borders Israel and since it was established in the early 1980s by the Iranian revolutionary guards has served as Iran's foreign legion in Lebanon. And over the intervening 40 years uh they've basically swallowed more and more control over the country of Lebanon to the point where beginning around uh 2007208 after they murdered uh the prime minister Rafi Kreri in 2005 they basically just swallowed Lebanon. They have ministers who are in the cabinet.

[00:02:06]Um, and they've ex exercised an enormous amount of control largely because as an Iranian military organization in Lebanon, they're actually more powerful than the Lebanese armed forces are. So that's that's the situation and has been the situation in Lebanon unfortunately for around 20 years. And it's from that position that they've built up their forces in order to destroy Israel. So uh after uh the kamas invasion in October on October 7th 2023 uh was planning on joining the invasion and we were able to move up enough forces to the northern border to block that and they no longer had the ability to surprise us. So, you know, they they uh they didn't invade, but they did begin uh shooting missiles and mortars and rockets at us and drones at us beginning at the beginning of the war, and they were a partner to Hamas and making it a two-front war, albeit with a major front in the south and Gaza from the outset. um and what we've been seeing now and and always acting as Iran's foreign legion. They are uh the the most important uh really pivot point of Iran's of Iran's whole strategy for domination of the Middle East.

[00:03:24]>> So people should understand it's not only with Israel, they also served the Syrian regime under Assad to fight the people there. Precisely. It's not only against Israel.

[00:03:32]>> So what happened? In fact, we can just go a little bit back before we go to today. So um what Israel did in 2000 in September of 2024 when we were finally able to deal with and you had the beeper operation, you had the assassination of Kasanaha, the prime minister always says, you know, he got an intelligence report that when he read it, he realized that Kasan was actually the most strategically important actor in Iran that Kamei and the head of the ICR, the IRGC, the revolutionary guard corps, they were essentially subservient to Kasan in the sense that he was the visionary for Iran's war with uh Israel but both from the kamas perspective, the Houthi perspective and obviously from Lebanon and etc. So when when Israel went after him and when we were able to decimate uh uh structure, it its leadership structure through the beeper operations and then the bombing of their missile uh installation so that we were able to bring them down from 150,000 missiles pointing at Israel to just a small fraction of that amount, although they still have a missile arsenal that they shoot. Um, but we basically decimated their forces and that was really what uh brought about the fall of the Assad regime because like you said uh the the main force that was protecting um Assad and his ba'ist regime uh throughout the years of the Syrian civil war where he was essentially annihilating the Sunni population of Syria uh was Kisbala. It wasn't the Syrian army. Syrian army as it later worked out was just an empty shell. So after we decimated and Lebanon uh that act left him exposed. So that when when that happened uh the uh the forces that overthrew his regime were able to do so with almost no fight because he didn't have armed forces in order to protect him and that was when he fled to Russia. So it was the operation against that brought about uh the fall of the Assad regime more than anything else. And uh so that's important. Exactly. They were the protector of Syria as well as the overlords of Lebanon. And that brings us to where we are today, which is that, you know, they've been building up rebuilding their arsenal, doing uh attacks on Israel. We were forced to go in in a very major way because they were shelling northern communities and we took over a an area that's called the yellow zone which is um protecting our communities in the border to keep keep uh keep them safe. And actually what distinguished the current situation in Lebanon from what happened on October 7th is that we were too imperiled to be able to feel comfortable protecting the uh the citizens of Israel who live in the border communities in the city of Kiracha in Matula and all of the uh farming communities around the border.

[00:06:40]So we evacuated them and they were in they were refugees internal refugees for nearly two years and then they came back. So what's different now is that we aren't evacuating our civilians. They're remaining in their homes. We're not making anybody leave, but we are pushing uh the uh the the people of South Lebanon north so that we can go and get the terrorists. So that's that's basically we have a reverse picture of what happened in 2023.

[00:07:10]>> Just so people realize that we're not just making this up. Besides the what they're firing at us, we uncovered just like in Gaza, the infrastructure underground tunnels that they were building and then we found the reports and everything in their own of the planning very much the same thing that was done in Gaza. So we have based on our experience a justified concern that um they look to are looking to attack our civilians.

[00:07:38]>> They are and and they're also hiding in exactly the same way that kamas did. I mean, they worked together. They learned together. They actually taught Kamas a lot about digging tunnels, which they actually learned even earlier, according to reports at the time, from North Korean engineers who came in in the 2000s and started teaching them how to build tunnels the way that they have along the DMZ with uh with South Korea.

[00:07:58]So, it's all kind of crazy. We had an operation in 2018 where we were discovering uh tunnels uh that really just abudded the border across the border into Israel that had made and they quarry through through sheer rock as opposed to kamas in Gaza which is from sand uh sandstone. So it's much harder and it's and you can see here I um you know there's a lot of uh footage that the IDF has brought in of showing where they are. or they locate just like Hamas, they locate themselves in hospitals and they use ambulances to move their troops around.

[00:08:33]>> They use a civilian >> civilian homes and that was a thing that they thought that by putting their missile launchers in special missile rooms inside of private homes in Lebanon that we weren't going to be able to attack them. But what we were able to do was tell the civilians, you have an hour to leave. And then they left and then we bombed them. And that was how we decimated their missile arsenal was by doing that. And the people listened to us so that you know we we had re regained our our our seriousness of purpose in their eyes where they realized that they had to take us seriously and so they left and that was what enabled us to really go after >> these empty villages and locations and many of them are I think about 80% in the south are Christian villages. Uh >> well they're not being evacuated. No, not being evacuated, but theah on locations that are nearby, they're now taking over these locations, including churches, they don't stop at anything.

[00:09:25]You know, we've gotten we've gotten attacked and and to a certain degree reasonably for some acts of vandalism that IDF forces were doing in in two separate instances in Christian sites.

[00:09:36]But what people don't realize is that these sites are used by as a matter of practice. So last week, one of the soldiers who was killed, we've had 11 soldiers killed since the so-called ceasefire uh was instituted a couple months ago. Um they they they killed one of our soldiers uh Captain or now uh Major Itamar Spir from inside of a church and also wounded two of his soldiers. So that you know this is this is something that people have to understand is that you know the reason why you have IDF forces operating by monasteries operating by churches and other Christian uh installations is because you have the thebala that's taken over these Christian installations and they fire at at our forces from inside of these uh Christian uh Christian um uh institutions. And that's what happened last week with our with our soldiers. And so, you know, you you have to understand just like Hamas was shooting at us from the schools and from the hospitals and the churches and the mosque. So, the same thing goes for Kbala in Lebanon. And and this really brings us to, you know, the biggest problem that we're facing right now, which is um that they've developed or they've they've copied from the Ukraine Russia war this drone uh technology which is run by fiber optic cables. And so basically they have a they have a camera attached to these fiber optic cables. They don't need to be online because it's all just you know it's just like a telephone line kind of thing. So you don't need any uh to to have any signals going out. It's just attached and they have these these cables these fiber optic uh cables that are 10 kilometers long and they can buy them you know on uh on uh AliExpress or wherever you can actually buy them >> and they attach them to these drones which you can also buy online and then they attach RPGs to them so that they can it's like it's like a a very smart bomb because the operator the Kbala terrorist who's in the rear he can see uh everything. It's as if he's sitting on the drone from his screen to the uh camera that's attached to the thing. And they're very very dangerous because they can fly very low. Um and they've caused massive devastation in Ukraine. I was looking at uh videos of them a couple of weeks ago on YouTube and if you just look up Ukraine uh fiber optic drones and you see they have these whole areas now that are uninhabited. you know, 20, 20 km, 30 km long, wide, and they're just filled with fiber optic cables, just filled almost like corn in a corn in a saw that >> in a corn field. And it's very terrifying because obviously we can't have something like that in Israel. You know, you have, you know, 40 km and you're in Kyifa. So, >> to stress, they're not aiming these only at the soldiers.

[00:12:37]>> So, they've killed a bunch of our soldiers and wounded a bunch of our soldiers. Just this week, uh, they were able to, you know, get into an APC with the RPG and, uh, one soldiers was killed and the other one had his legs blown off. So, I mean, this happens now almost on a daily basis. Yesterday, not only, you know, was a soldier killed, but also they shot these uh, at two homes in border communities of I think it was Matula and so that, you know, they're going after civilians. they're using them and and we're working obviously around the clock to try to figure out a a solution to this and uh and understanding the danger. But, you know, we cannot have these people by our villages. We can't have operatives, you know, operating under some sort of uh immunity or whatever of a ceasefire, which is not a ceasefire. I mean, the Lebanese armed forces is not shooting at Israel. But well, they haven't really done that in a, you know, decades and decades. It's because it's that is the main armed force in Lebanon and they're attacking us. And so, you know, we've gotten to we've we've crossed a sort of threshold where this is just unacceptable. You know, 11 soldiers killed uh for us is the equivalent of 400 American soldiers in terms of uh you know, just just the uh relative size of the population in our armed forces. And you know this is this has become something that we're just not going to uh be able to to deal with uh through >> negotiations. This is in the context of this ceasefire that was arranged with Iran.

[00:14:13]>> The condition one of the Iranian conditions was that it would uh Israel would restrain itself here which we did and we've been doing it but it doesn't but they feel like it's giving them the the possibility to fire at us with immunity which it isn't. And also you have at this coincidely we have the talks with uh Lebanon with the Lebanese government going on right now in Washington. So they have all these interests that try to disrupt that as well. How do we how's are the negotiations going with uh with Lebanon and I understand this week the United States and prime minister there despite what the New York Times we know is a very credible organization uh media outlet that um they were saying there's no connection between the prime minister and the president. I understand they're fully connected, constantly online with each other. So, we understand the American needs, but at the end of the day, we have the lives of Israelis.

[00:15:06]>> But I mean, I I think that in terms of Iran, you know, we're we're their wingman on Iran. This isn't the the the president is the leader, right?

[00:15:13]>> And uh we trust him. We tr you know, he has the same commitment as we do to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear armed state. It's not going to happen.

[00:15:22]And obviously that remains our our commitment as the prime minister said earlier this week as well. Um but um Lebanon is a fish of a you know it it's a different kettle of fish, right?

[00:15:33]Because because it's on our border and they're attacking us and they're endangering our communities and they're killing our soldiers and you know here the negotiations as as Ambassador Lighter has made clear, you know, they're going well because as I mean um Secretary of State Rubio said I think just yesterday, he said, you know, the Lebanese government is not at war with Israel, right? it. The government of Lebanon and Israel aren't at war. But Lebanon right now is a is is acting as an Iranian colony because the people of Lebanon don't get a say in whether Kisbala attacks or not because they're just too powerful. And so, you know, that if you want to get to peace with Lebanon, you know, we can we can talk about it, but something has to happen first, and that is that has to be destroyed. and it we can't have these kinds of imminent threats, pending threats, mounting threats to our national security frombala. And so that's really that's really the point for us. And and there's another point here too, which is that, you know, you can't have a situation where on the one hand um you're saying that the legitimate body in Lebanon is the government of Lebanon and that they have to be responsible for their territory and on the other hand agreeing uh in in any sort of fashion that Iran can dictate what happens in Lebanon. that if they demand a ceasefire that allows to remain in place um that that's something that's going to be accepted because that means that then you don't think that the government of of Lebanon is is responsible. you're saying is that in fact you accept that you know Iran uh controls Lebanon that Iran is a col is has colonized Lebanon and that its arm for maintaining order in Lebanon and control of the country is their foreign legionala in Lebanon and and those two things um contradict one another. They're mutually exclusive. You can either be a country or you can be an Iranian colony but you can't be both. And Israel cannot abide by having this Iranian colony. You know, don't forget the outset of the war, it was it was an Iran, it's always been an Iranian war against us. They uh kamasutis, the Assad regime, the uh the Shiite militia in Iraq who were also shooting at us at the outset of the war. All of these all and Iran itself, they were all um extensions in one way or another of the Iranian regime. And the prime minister said this ring of fire that Iran has surrounded us with is going to be destroyed and it's going to be destroyed arm by arm by arm by arm. And we're we can't accept that it will continue to exist. So I think we can't accept it from a strategic perspective and we obviously can't accept it from a military perspective. And that's really where we are today. And I think it's important for your viewers to understand as the prime minister said yesterday, you know, um we're not going to allow this. Kbala is at war with us. We're going to defeat it. And that that's just how it has to be, you know.

[00:18:44]>> Well, that's an important part. But I think also for the viewers here, they have to understand that that's not the whole picture. Part of what is going on right now in Iran is the president said um I believe it was day before yesterday talking about the Abrahamic Accords, how they're going to be expanded. Um but I want to focus on the prime minister. He has this bigger plan, the hexagon, I believe it's called in English, of the uh directions that Israel should be going and it's the relations Israel should be creating and being a central part of what the United States, the bigger picture for the United States. Um the war is going to end at some point. I think people have to understand that it has been a long extended war, but it will end. Where does the prime minister want to take Israel in this? And how does he foresee um the future which is coming upon us very quickly?

[00:19:31]>> And the prime minister, I mean, first of all, he's he's simply incredible because even as he's dealing with what's happening now, he's also thinking about what's going to happen >> uh uh 10 steps down the road. And that's why we're able to get go in the right direction because he has a vision. And you know we see that we have developed very close ties with a lot of the countries uh in our region that didn't exist before and you know particularly the UAE but one of the things that I think everybody recognizes from uh what Iran has been doing in the straight of Hormuz is that it just can't be right that that um that they continue to have a chokeold over such a strategic waterway and the transfer point of so much of the raw materials and the fuels that humanity needs that humanity requires 20% go through the straits. So you you can't have that situation. And so in in President Trump's first term, the United States and Israel under the Prime Minister Netanyahu were working on building a uh transfer point for goods and fuel starting in India and and uh going across the UAE, Saudi into Jordan and up to Israel and then over to um Europe. And obviously it would be going in both directions. And this is obviously something that has to be implemented uh begin implementing it now. I mean and and I and I think that you know uh when we when we talk about the here and now we have to remember that even and the prime minister has made this point a number of times after the Yom Kipur war in 1973 what happened there was uh the OPEC oil embargo and suddenly people woke up to price fixing by Arab she nobody had ever heard of before and suddenly had everybody started wondering you know knowing the name of the king of Saudi Arabia like this was something you were supposed to be worried about in Detroit Right. But it was and so that was when uh the world started developing alternative uh sources of fuel um in the United States, in Latin America, Mexico and other places became much more prominent in Russia even because you had to deny that kind of monopolistic power over energy markets from from the Middle East. And you're going to see this now also immediately happening. And that goes to, you know, one of Israel's strengths. We are people uh we're little, but we're also uh located in on prime real estate, you know, and and so we have we have the ability to be a hub for these kinds of operations. And obviously, you have other industries, not only high-tech, but you know, AI and quantum computing and all of the things that we're moving forward into the 20th uh 21st century as as leaders in. And I think that uh you know this war even we should also remember one last thing here is that I remember at the outset of the war and you probably felt the same way I think all of us did. We had this sense of extraordinary foroding about oh my god we're going to go into economic collapse because you have a general mobilization of the reserves and how long and we remember you know in previous wars that you couldn't hold on to the reserves for so long as the country was going broke in 73 for instance is a perfect example. Um and here our our our our economy has continued to grow and this is really a testament again to the leadership of the prime minister and also to the incredible work being done by uh the minister of the treasury basal smotch. I mean, we have great economic leadership in Israel and also great innovation and and people. Our human capital here is our greatest is our greatest resource.

[00:23:24]And so, we've been one of the fastest growing economies, one of the fastest rising uh stock exchange in the world.

[00:23:32]So, you know, you're I we really have a lot to look forward to and we're always going to I guess that's the last thing we should say. You know, even peace is brought about by strength as the president and the prime minister and really our our liturgy and Judaism makes clear. And so it's not that we're looking towards a future of peace where our sons and daughters aren't going to be fighting, but you keep the you keep the wolves at bay and you build you build your country and that's that's uh what we're looking forward to and uh we have every reason to be optimistic. We have to get over a few more bumps, right?

[00:24:11]>> But uh we're working towards that pretty diligently.

[00:24:14]>> Carolyn Glick, senior adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu, I'm envious that you're there and you see everything firsthand. um wish him I sure I'm speaking >> it's an extraordinary privilege I have to >> I I I know and I'm I'm sure that in the name of everybody watching please tell him that we're all supportive and wish him the best for the people of Israel and the people of the world right now because it's it's a battle for humanity.

[00:24:36]Thank you for being here with us. I know you have to get back because you still have serious work to get get done.

[00:24:40]Thanks for being with us here today.

[00:24:42]>> Well, this is serious too and I appreciate you having me today. Thank you. Take care.

[00:24:45]>> Thank you all for watching us and we'll be with you again. Thank you very much from the JNS studios here in Jerusalem, Israel.