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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to then Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, Tel Aviv, April 9, 2013. (State Dept photo)

Michael Oren’s diplomatic psychobabble

Does the former Israeli ambassador really think that an imaginative psychoanalysis of Obama can explain away Netanyahu’s annexationist policies? By Aviad Kleinberg Michael Oren blames President Barack Obama for ruining relations with Israel, after the latter broke two sacrosanct rules that Oren himself came up with: that the United States and Israel should not have public disagreements, and…

By +972 Magazine June 25, 2015

Deputy Speaker Tibi launches complaint against Amb. Oren

In his Foreign Policy piece, Israel’s ambassador to Washington repeated the false claim that MK Tibi expressed support for suicide attacks. Tibi has now sent an official letter to the Foreign Ministry, demanding a retraction. Of all the factual errors, omissions and half-truths in Ambassador Michael Oren’s piece at Foreign Policy, titled “Israel’s Resilient Democracy,”…

By Noam Sheizaf April 11, 2012

T-shirts against absurdity: In support of our striking diplomats

There’s been some noise at the annual convention of Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem. The entire professional staff of the foreign ministry joined in protest over the financial conditions of diplomats. Instead of arriving to the convention in suits, the ambassadors and their colleagues wore black t-shirts bearing the inscription: “I am an impoverished diplomat.” They…

By Yuval Ben-Ami December 27, 2010

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