By Jonathan Broder
Michael Oren, a celebrated Middle East historian turned Israeli diplomat, has embarked on a nationwide U.S. book tour to promote his new memoir, which recounts the four years he spent in Washington as the top envoy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Unlike other diplomatic memoirs, which rarely disclose anything controversial, Oren’s Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide is provocative, as the former ambassador blames President Barack Obama for the sorry state of U.S.-Israel relations and much else that’s wrong in the Middle East today....
I've always found Oren to be inflammatory. I've never found him to be a peacemaker in any way.
It is amazing how Israel's ambitions to continue to take land beyond any international agreement or understanding. There is never an apology. There is never any reconciliation. There is never peace. It is always Israel that stands outside the ability to achieve an agreement and it always results in "The Palestinians have to stop their aggressions or there will be no peace agreement."
It is always the Palestinians that are brutal and barbaric.
One of the first things stated about Gaza when Israelis left sounded like this: "They are bragging they won the war and chased Israel out of the land." Or. "They are destroying buildings and the synagogues." There was never talk about, "Let's see what happens with time." Or. "How can we facilitate education to the children?" There was no reconciliation after Gaza. The beginnings of the next assault against Gaza was the only point of dialogue.
Israel can't claim the people of Gaza/Hamas has to stop sending rockets over and at Israel. They have their much acclaimed Iron Dome. The Iron Dome is not suppose to create a reason for more aggression, but, less.
The Israelis state their mission demands more land. The question is how much land does Israel need to house every Jewish community on Earth? It is not possible. That type of idea is anti-sovereign. It is a abstract ideology and not based in reality.
There are many reasons to support Israel and it's ambitions to house people within a land of preferred religion, but, that is done with treaties and the understanding the Jewish people within a country need protection in that manner. It is to reassure there exists a religion based in Hebrew documents and salvation.
The USA has communities whereby Israelis are safe and exclusively surrounded by their faith and practices. In actuality, those communities are so intact and stable they provide a far greater peace than Israel does. The only difference is the holy places and holy ground. The intensity of the Hebrew faith is probably greater in the USA because it is not ever interrupted.
