Saturday, December 13, 2014
Former Israel Ambassador to US finally able to tell the truth about Obama
.Former Israel Ambassador to US finally able to tell the
truth about Obama
Undiplomatic Talk From Michael Oren
'This administration has a worldview that is not in accord
with any Israeli government.'
Wed, 12/10/2014
Gary Rosenblatt
During his four-year tenure as Israel’s ambassador to the
United States, marked by an often-stormy relationship between Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu and President Obama, Michael Oren was the consummate
diplomat. He was dignified, thoughtful, articulate, knowledgeable and tactful.
But those days are over.
Fourteen months after returning to Israel, where he is
lecturing at the IDC Herzliya College and writing a book about his experiences
in Washington, the 59-year-old Oren is speaking out about his deep concerns
over Israel’s standing in the world, and particularly its relationship with its
most important ally, the U.S.
In a dialogue at The Plaza here last week at the annual
Scholar-Statesman dinner of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
where he and another former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Tel Aviv University
President Itamar Rabinovich, were the honorees, Oren said that “this
administration [in Washington] has a worldview that is not in accord with any
Israeli government,” not just the current one. Describing the Obama
administration as “ideological” on the Mideast, with the president’s 2009
outreach-to-the-Arab-world Cairo speech as its source, Oren said the White
House views east Jerusalem communities like Gilo, for example, as not necessarily
part of the Jewish state, a position he said no Israeli government would
accept.
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