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Oren: Obama Intentionally Abandoned Core Principles Of Israel's Alliance With America
After years of 'diplomatic' reticence former envoy to the US removes the gloves.By HERB KEINON \ 06/16/2015
In polite diplomatic circles, former ambassador to the US Michael Oren is the Israeli envoy to love, current ambassador Ron Dermer the one to hate.
Oren is the diplomat open to everyone, Dermer nothing more than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus ambassador to the Republican Party. Oren is the disciplined golden retriever, Dermer a rottweiler.
Now no longer a diplomat, but a Kulanu MK, Oren has taken the gloves off. That much is evident in excerpts that have emerged from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide his upcoming book about his tenure as ambassador to Washington from 2009-2013 and as he speaks and writes more about those tumultuous years as part of promoting the book.
In an op-ed piece Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal, entitled How Obama Abandoned Israel, Oren wrote that US President Barack Obama had intentionally abandoned two key principles of the American- Israeli alliance: that there be no public daylight between the two states, and that there be no surprises.
While both Netanyahu and Obama have made mistakes in the relationship, only one Obama made them deliberately, Oren wrote.
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Oren: Obama Intentionally Abandoned Core Principles Of Israel's Alliance With America (Original Post)
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Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)1. it was a dysfunctional relationship that needed to change anyway
Israel needs to be independent, not a de facto 51st state, and the US doesn't need any of the wars that Israel wants us to fight for them.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)2. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you and lack of gratitude.
Why are there "key principles" to the so-called alliance? We're the United States of America. They are a pip-squeak dependent. They act as though they are our equal and that we make equal contributions.
The sooner the US distances itself from Israel the better.