Interview Summary: Michael Oren on Fox News (May 1, 2026) Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren discusses the escalating regional tensions and the strategic challenges posed by Iran. Key Discussion Points: Preemptive Threats: Analysis of why Iran may take the first…
Michael Oren argues that Iran is behaving irrationally in the current crisis, lying about its capabilities and using the Strait of Hormuz as leverage even as its own economy nears a breaking point, and he supports a tough U.S. and…
Israel must once again adopt the slogan — ‘No deal is better than a bad deal.’ More than a decade ago, at the height of President Obama’s efforts to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran, Israel adopted the slogan, “No…
Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It’s time, I maintain, to say goodbye. This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in…
In this segment, Ambassador Michael Oren outlines Israel’s skeptical stance regarding the recent leadership transition in Iran. He emphasizes that a change in faces does not necessarily signal a shift in the regime’s core ideology, noting that the influence of…
Media Briefing: Western Defense & Cultural Identity Analysis by Ambassador Michael Oren | Spiked Executive Summary In this compelling discussion, Ambassador Michael Oren argues that the West’s diminishing support for Israel is a symptom of a broader refusal to defend…
Prior to Wednesday at 3 a.m. the majority of Israelis supported a war they hoped would result in a fundamental alteration of their reality. The ceasefire seems to have smashed those hopes. This piece was published last Thursday in The…
One view of the ceasefire spells strategic disaster, the other, hope. Whichever perspective, Israel must prepare for the ongoing confrontation with Iran and its proxies. There are two ways of looking at the missiles fired by Iran at Israel on…
America’s national derangement poses almost insurmountable challenges to supporters of the Jewish state. For the past 50 years, in capacities both official and voluntary, before the American press, on campuses, and in a corpus of op-eds, I have spent…
