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Opinion Did Michael Oren Concoct Haiti Earthquake ‘Kick in Chest’?
(JTA) — It’s a compelling hero-takes-the-fall narrative: Valiant little country takes the lead in rescuing a battered people and gets snubbed when it’s time for kudos. It’s the picture Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., paints of Israel’s 2010 Haiti rescue operation in “Ally,” his book excoriating President Barack Obama’s treatment of Israel….
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Suffers Sharp Decline in Israel Poll
While President Barack Obama remains popular in most countries, the sharpest decline in his image occurred in Israel, according to a new survey. In Israel, confidence in Obama on world affairs fell from 71 percent to 49 percent in the last year, according to the 2015 Spring Pew Global Attitudes Survey released Wednesday. Some 15…
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Opinion How Dare Michael Oren Psychoanalyze Barack Obama?
Michael Oren has a new book to sell — a memoir called “Ally” about his years as Israel’s ambassador to Washington. To maximize sales, the former diplomat is apparently willing not only to blow up what remains of the very fragile Obama-Netanyahu relationship, but also to further divide the American Jewish community over its relationship…
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Fast Forward Arguing for Gun Control, Obama Cites Israel Favorably
President Barack Obama compared Israel favorably to the United States in making a point about gun violence. “Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel,” Obama said Sunday on a Twitter account that the White House…
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Fast Forward ADL Raps Michael Oren for ‘Amateur Psychoanalysis’ on Obama
The Anti-Defamation League criticized Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, for an “insensitive and unjustified” attack on President Barack Obama. Oren’ should “walk back” views published in an essay posted Friday on the Foreign Policy website, the ADL said. Oren wrote that Obama’s attitudes toward Islam and American foreign policy in the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister’s Wife Tweets Offensive ‘Obama Coffee’ Joke
The wife of Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom apologized after tweeting a tasteless joke about U.S. President Barack Obama. Judy Shalom Nir Mozes posted the joke Sunday and removed it shortly after, but not before unleashing a storm of criticism. “Do u know what Obama Coffee is? Black and weak,” read the offensive tweet. After…
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Opinion After Charleston, Let’s All Look in Mirror
The grim-faced look of President Obama as he addressed the nation after the attack on a Charleston church seemed not only to reflect his personal pain. It encapsulated the resignation of a man who thought he would not have to minister again on these occasions, would not have to continually remind us that the toxic…
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Fast Forward Michael Oren Says Barack Obama Shouldn’t Air Splits With Israel
Michael Oren in an Op-Ed appearing Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal said Obama abandoned the principle of keeping disagreements private and of “no surprises” between the countries. Oren, who served as ambassador from 2009 to 2013, faulted the Israeli government for announcing settlement building at inopportune times, but said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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