On Iran, Oren wrote that President Obama once again shocked Israel, after insisting how much he backs Israel, by stating in a recent interview with Israeli Channel 2 that a military option cannot solve the threat of a nuclear Iran.
Oren has proved himself to be an opportunist par excellence.
Five months ago, after he joined the Kulanu party in the recent election campaign, he told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg: Today, more than ever, it is clear that Israel-U.S. relations are the foundation of any economic, security, and diplomatic approach. It is our responsibility to strengthen those ties immediately.
Oren offered no hint that Obama had “abandoned” Israel.
The former ambassador has another reason to spread the sudden truth about Obama.
He wants to promote his new book “Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide,” which is to be released next week. It details the hostility of the Obama administration towards Israel with observations that previously have been known but never written down, one after one.
He notes in his book that when Abbas started making moves for the United Nations to declare statehood for the Palestinian Authority, which might have resulted in an automatic shutdown of U.S. aid to Ramallah and to United Nations agencies such as UNRWA, Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides called Oren into his office and snorted:
“You don’t want the f - - - ing UN to collapse because of your f - - - - ing conflict with the Palestinians, and you don’t want the f - - - king Palestinian Authority to fall apart either.”
Oren resounded that he certainly does not want to see that, but that there are many Tea Party Congressmen who do. Nides, after hearing his response, “slumped into his Louis XVth chair.” Oren also writes that Obama left Israel off a list of countries that helped Haiti in the disastrous earthquake in 2010.
Why? Because President Obama was angry at Netanyahu for something related to his holy “peace process,” for whose death he still blames Israel as much as, if not more, than Abbas.