Michael Oren is an American-Israeli diplomat, essayist, historian, novelist, and politician. He is a former ambassador to the United States.
This guest post from Amelia Adams was originally published on her Substack, Inside the Mind of a Neurotic Jewish Gay In the wake of pro hama–sorry, pro “resistance” rallies and encampments, it seems that everyone’s jaws are on the floor. People just cannot…
Read more This article is an adaptation of a Hebrew article which appeared in Israel Hayom. Missile launched during Iranian military exercise (Reuters) Subscribe While adamantly opposing Israel’s incursion into Rafah, withholding the supply of both vital munitions and intelligence to the IDF,…
Read more This Memorial Day, as in years past, I attended the official ceremony at the military cemetery in Ashdod. My presence there was both semi-official and personal. Subscribe Hadas Malka, Jan 16, 1994-Jun 16, 2017 (Courtesy) I proudly serve as president…
Read more This Holocaust Remembrance Day, commentated in the shadow of the largest single massacre of Jews since World War II, is especially unbearable. We must once again question the ability of words to convey the unspeakable and of the willingness of…
Read more Though in radically different ways, both Hamas and the United States are using Gaza’s civilians as human shields. There is nothing new about this phenomenon. Hamas, which knows that dead civilians are the best means of increasing international pressure on…
Read more The anti-Israel protesters of 2024 are trying to emulate the demonstrations that took place in many of the same universities back in the late 1960s. But are the two movements really comparable and, if so, how? And what are the…
Read more Me with members of the Zionist underground in the USSR Share More than forty years ago, I celebrated Passover with the Zionist underground in the Soviet Union. Young Jews whose only crime was to learn Hebrew and yearn to move…
Read more This is Part III of a three-part series on the radicalization of Middle East studies. Over the past five decades Middle East studies have had a profound impact on the region. It has long been less an academic field than…
Read more This is Part II of a three-part series on the radicalization of Middle East studies. Over the past five decades Middle East studies have had a profound impact on the region. It has long been less an academic field than…
Read more How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington Historians will look back and wonder how the U.S. not only allowed Iran to repeatedly assault its citizens, soldiers, and allies—but rewarded it for doing so. MICHAEL OREN APR 14,…
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