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Michael Oren is an American-Israeli diplomat, essayist, historian, novelist, and politician. He is a former ambassador to the United States.
The Diplomatic Whiplash of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump
President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration this January will signal a tectonic shift in American foreign policy unmatched…
The Altneu Antisemitism: Part II
Ancient antisemitic tropes have now thoroughly, if often unconsciously, entered acceptable daily discourse. Part I of The…
The Altneu Antisemitism: Part I
The spike in antisemitism globally is hardly news. And yet, there is something about contemporary…
Contextualized and Decontextualized: Israel’s Fight for Truth
Speaking on a Pod Save America podcast last November 7, former President Barack Obama urged listeners to…
Bombing Hezbollah’s Drug Empire is the Key to Weakening its Power
Israel’s destruction of Hezbollah’s drug empire could not be timelier or less controversial. Back…
From the Archives: Sound Sleep
This article originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on February 17, 1997. The search for…
Game-ender or game-changer?
Israel’s retaliation against Iran leaves open the question of whether the mission secured its fundamental…
How the Israel-Iran Rope-a-Dope Ends
How the Israel-Iran Rope-a-Dope Ends My father’s boxing lessons taught me that a fight with…
The Price of a Hug
The following article is adapted from an op-ed I published in Hebrew last week in Yediot Aharonot. US…