Michael Oren is an American-Israeli diplomat, essayist, historian, novelist, and politician. He is a former ambassador to the United States.
Iran and the fifty-year parade of ignored evidence. On February 28, the United States and Israel struck Iran. Khamenei killed and soon replaced. Oil markets in crisis, Iranian missiles targeting NATO facilities, and yet European leaders are saying, “This is…
Read more The segment discusses controversy surrounding Abdul El-Sayed after leaked audio revealed his cautious response to the reported death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. El-Sayed emphasized sensitivity toward communities in Dearborn who might be affected and avoided celebrating the death,…
Read more Unlike the Wise Son who acknowledges that Jewish law and Jewish life are complicated and approaches them as a Jew, the Wicked Son sets himself apart from his people and doesn’t really bother to ask. When, last January, he was…
Read more Despite the close partnership between Trump and Netanyahu and the truly historic cooperation between the U.S. armed forces and the IDF, America and Israel inhabit utterly different realities. In the classic 1970 film “Patton,” the famous World War II general…
Read more Israel and its supporters must combat the slanderous claim, from right and left, that Jews have dragged America into a futile war What do New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, antisemitic podcaster Tucker Carlson, Progressive politician Bernie Sanders, and the…
Read more econd issue. Was this about the President of the United States believing he needed to do this for his own and his country’s 00:00 interests, or was he talked into it by his buddy Bibi? Somebody who knows the answer…
Read more Critics think the war with Iran is like Afghanistan. It’s much more like the Cold War. Everybody knows how wars begin but nobody knows how they end. In the last couple of weeks, the question of how the United…
Read more About Iran, in particular, there was no shortage of the stories we told ourselves. There is a great expression in colloquial Hebrew that defies translation into other languages. It goes like this: “These are bedtime stories that we tell ourselves.”…
Read more Voices on both the right and left are accusing Israel of once again dragging America into an unnecessary, endless war. Last week, in Washington D.C., Brian McGinnis, a veteran of the U.S. Marines, burst into a hearing of the Senate…
Read more Khamenei’s death can be traced back to Yahya Sinwar’s decision to launch the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, writes Michael Oren. (Illustration by The Free Press) Officially, at least, the war against Iran began on Saturday, February 28, at…
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