Michael Oren is an American-Israeli diplomat, essayist, historian, novelist, and politician. He is a former ambassador to the United States.
Israel Strikes Iran June 13, 2025 Bari Weiss 51M Naftali Bennett and Michael Oren break down Israel’s attack on multiple sites across Iran. View all episodes In the early Friday morning hours, Israel launched a series of strikes on Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, defense operations, and the leadership of the Revolutionary Guard. Hours later, I…
Read moreCyclist passes by the flag of Israel, taped on a hydrant on the east end of the Pearl Street Mall, after a Sunday attack near the courthouse Monday, June 2, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Throughout the day, Monday, June 2, CNN ran the headline, “Dozens shot dead and injured near Gaza aid…
Read moreEin Zivan Vineyard, Golan Heights pictured in 2018. The border to Syria runs only a few hundred meters away (Juergen Schwenkenbecher/AP) President Trump’s decision to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria and recognize the regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani) poses serious short- and long-term challenges to Israel. In the short term, it means that…
Read moreThe Prime Minister’s recent statement that Israel “will have to wean itself off American military aid, just as we weaned ourselves from U.S. economic aid” was, for me, a vindication. In 2016, while in Knesset, I was the only member of the Israeli government to oppose acceptance of President Obama’s ten-year $38 billion aid package. The reasoning behind…
Read moreAlong with “no daylight,” one of the longstanding principles of the U.S.-Israel alliance was “no surprises.” This meant that if the American president planned on making a major policy statement on the Middle East, especially one that impacted our security, Israeli leaders would be given the opportunity to review it first and submit their comments.…
Read moreMy first encounter with antisemitism, when I was about nine years old and growing up as the lone Jewish kid in an entirely Catholic neighborhood, was being called by some bully a Christ-killer. I would go on to encounter many other stripes of Jew-hatred: Jews have too much money, power, and influence, Jews are devious,…
Read moreThis article was published on ynetnews.com. May 5,2025. The state created in 1948 to ensure that the Jewish people would never again have to rely on anybody else for our security has repeatedly outsourced its security to others. The results have always been disastrous. In the 1950s, we outsourced our security to UN peacekeepers in…
Read moreIsrael has repeatedly outsourced its security to others–the results have always been disastrous The state created in 1948 to ensure that the Jewish people would never again have to rely on anybody else for our security has repeatedly outsourced its security to others. The results have always been disastrous. In the 1950s, we outsourced our…
Read moreThis article was published on ynetnews.com. Opinion: As tensions rise between the Israeli Air Force and Southern Command over Gaza operations, deeper societal divides—ethnic, economic, and political—threaten national unity at a time when it’s needed most. In the midst of a desperate war and on the eve of Memorial Day, a deep schism…
Read moreWhether on the ground, or in the air, the Israeli people must unite In the midst of a desperate war and on the eve of Memorial Day, a deep schism has opened within the IDF. According to press reports, the Israeli Air Force has complained that the Southern Command, in charge of ground operations…
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