Israel has never had a home in the U.S. State Department and diplomats dispatched there are generally “Arabists” who don’t bother to understand the Jewish state, former U.S. envoy to Israel David Friedman told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren slammed the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets Wednesday for “sugarcoating” Palestinian terrorism and pinning the blame for the recent terror attacks on Israel for “overlooking” the Palestinian issue.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren said the bombshell revelation by former Trump envoy to Israel, David Friedman, that he was told by the State Department to “tone down” his Jewishness came as “no surprise,” but was like telling a Muslim ambassador to Cairo, “don’t be too Muslim.”
Former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren has described in chilling detail how a conflict between Israel and Iran could easily be sparked and descend into a massive conflagration, devastating Israel and other countries in the region.
The New York Times is facing criticism for publishing an editorial Sunday about the resurgence of antisemitism in Europe in which it suggested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump shared the blame.
Rep. Ilhan Omar resorts to antisemitism because she refuses to acknowledge the truth: that Americans genuinely support Israel.
JERUSALEM – Cabinet Minister and former Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren called on human rights groups to condemn the Palestinian Authority over its incarceration of an American national over his alleged involvement in the sale of real estate to Jews and contended that failure to do constituted “racism.”
JERUSALEM – President Donald Trump’s envoy to Israel David Friedman has demanded the release of an American national who is being incarcerated by the Palestinian Authority over his alleged involvement in the sale of real estate to Jews.
TEL AVIV – Airbnb could find itself sanctioned with a special tax over its decision remove all of its 200 listings located in Israeli settlements, Israel’s Tourism Minister said Tuesday.
Human Right Watch, an organization massively financed by billionaire activist George Soros, is urging vacation giant Booking.com to immediately cease listing Israeli homes in the West Bank.
Airbnb has fueled the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement when the company announced on Monday that it will cease to list Israeli homes in the West Bank.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian-American allegedly involved in the sale of Jerusalem real estate to Jews was lured to Ramallah two weeks ago under the pretense that he was required to sign some paperwork before being abducted by the Palestinian Authority and detained ever since, his wife told Breitbart in an exclusive interview Sunday.
Hamas had developed a “new missile” that can evade the Iron Dome, Michael Oren said. “It’s called a ‘demonstrator.’ It’s cheaper, it carries less risk, and in most cases, the missile is reusable.”
On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Israeli Deputy Prime Minister for Diplomacy Michael Oren stated that anti-Semitism is growing in the United States and that while the focus tends to be on right-wing anti-Semitism, “it’s very important to keep your eye on
TEL AVIV – Amid reports that Iran is assisting North Korea with its nuclear program, Deputy Minister for Diplomacy Michael Oren asked the international community at what point it would intervene.
A government deputy minister and historian on Sunday dismissed a media report claiming Israel was prepared to detonate an atom bomb to deter invading Arab armies as a “doomsday” plan during the 1967 Six Day War.
TEL AVIV – Fatah leader and imprisoned terrorist Marwan Barghouti may be prohibited from meeting with his lawyers if they are found to have helped smuggle his op-ed to the New York Times, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said on Tuesday.
Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren argues in Newsweek that President Donald Trump should pull the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying the body has become a “racist” organization that coddles tyrants and attacks Israel.
Deputy Minister Michael Oren on Thursday slammed US Secretary of State John Kerry’s address on the peace process as historically inaccurate, offensive and dangerous, and called for a total reset of US-Israel ties.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Michael Oren, the Deputy Minister for Diplomacy to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “we need a strong America. We need a united America, an America that’s willing to assume leadership
The UN must rid itself of anti-Israel bias and engage honestly with Israelis, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee members Michael Oren (Kulanu) and Omer Bar-Lev (Zionist Union) wrote in a letter to visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – A bill cementing Israel’s newest national holiday, Yom HaAliyah, passed its final reading in the Knesset on Tuesday with universal support from MKs across the political spectrum.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should hold off on signing a new defense pact with the United States, Kulanu MK Michael Oren said on Tuesday, in advice that reached the prime minister and other Israeli leaders.
TEL AVIV – The Orlando attack, in which first generation U.S. citizen Omar Sadiqqui Mateen shot at least 50 people in a gay club, will help Donald Trump’s chances of becoming president, Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S. said.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Anti-Defamation League walked back a statement from last year implying MK Michael Oren (Kulanu) used racist stereotypes to describe US President Barack Obama, ending what Oren called a painful experience Sunday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to embarrass himself by making uninformed and false anti-Israel statements that seem to parrot radical left, BDS-style, Palestinian propaganda talking points.
JERUSALEM – Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Sunday expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism, setting herself apart from rival Bernie Sanders, who infuriated Jews and Israelis when he wrongly claimed that Israel had probably killed “more than 10,000” Palestinian civilians in the 2014 Gaza war.
Sen. Bernie Sanders kept up his criticism of the Jewish state, this time accusing Israel of a “disproportionate” response during the 2014 Israel-Gaza War.
TEL AVIV – Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, has strongly denied a claim made about him in a recently released email sent to Hillary Clinton by her longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal claimed that Oren stalked the West Wing searching for a former Israeli prime minister who was allegedly visiting the White House behind the Israeli government’s back.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Kulanu MK Michael Oren on Sunday urged the government to address issues in the Beduin community to prevent further infiltration by Islamic State as he toured the Negev on Sunday meeting with Beduin soldiers and women national
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro on Tuesday, after Shaprio accused Israel of having a double standard in prosecuting Israelis and Palestinians for terrorism, and questioned Israel’s commitment to a two-state solution.
SANTA CLARA, California — Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren recently addressed a packed crowd at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Santa Clara where he discussed his latest book Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide and the damaged U.S.-Israel relationship under President Barack Obama’s leadership.
Much has been written about just how bad the proposed Iranian nuclear deal has gotten. This outcome is hardly surprising after Israel’s former ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, bravely published Ally, his memoir detailing Obama’s hostility towards Israel. But even without Ambassador Michael Oren’s personal testimony, there is overwhelming evidence that – on the issue most important to global security and Israel’s very existence – Obama has been, at best, reckless and, at worst, treasonous.
Former Israeli Ambassador Dr. Michael Oren argued that Iran has “internalized” the message that when it comes to the US “the longer they remain at the table, the more concessions they make” on Thursday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Oren said of
Fmr. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren argued the Obama administration “abandoned” two of the “core principles” of the US-Israel relationship on Tuesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Oren said that the book does include mistakes that were made by Israel and
Abraham H. Foxman, the outgoing national director of the Anti-Defamation League, has blasted Israel’s former envoy to the U.S., Michael Oren, for his comments about how President Barack Obama has deliberately harmed the U.S.-Israel relationship. Foxman is a liberal Democrat, and would rather blame Israel rather than examine the politics of his own party, so his defense of the White House is no surprise. However, he descends to the level of personally smearing Oren.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined to criticize a new memoir by his former ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, who accuses President Barack Obama of deliberately souring the U.S.-Israel relationship. The book, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli
Moshe Kahlon, the head of the populist Kulanu party in Israel, apologized to the Obama administration for the recent comments made by fellow party member Michael Oren (who formerly served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United States), who next week is releasing “Ally,” which in part is a scathing critique of the administration’s position on Israel.
The most explosive passage in Michael Oren’s new book on the frayed U.S.-Israel relationship is not about President Barack Obama’s repeated fights with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rather, it is about Obama himself.
Former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren is set to release a new memoir June 23: Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide. The book tells the story of Oren’s four years (2009-13) as Israel’s representative in Washington–and reveals just how hostile the Obama administration is towards Israel. Though he argues Obama is not anti-Israel, Oren notes that his administration did all it could to bully Israel into compliance with its hopelessly naïve new agenda in the Middle East.