Stunning: A Former Israeli Official Just Tore Off Obama’s Mask And Exposed Who He Really Is

by Randy DeSoto 

Former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren believes the current low point in relations between the U.S. and Israel is mostly of Barack Obama’s doing.
“The past six years have seen successive crises in U.S.-Israeli relations, and there is a need to set the record straight,” Oren writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published earlier this week.
Oren served as ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013 and is currently a member of the Israeli Knesset. He ran against Benjamin Netanyahu in the March parliamentary elections, but is now part of the coalition government formed under Netanyahu’s leadership.
In his op-ed and in his new book–Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide–Oren makes his case how relations between the traditionally strong allies have reached their current juncture.

Applying his tools as an historian, he believes Obama’s views about America itself have played into how he views Israel and the Middle East.
Speaking to Breitbart News last week, Oren recalled his impressions of Obama’s memoir Dreams From My Father. Obama said “nothing good about America,” Oren says. “Here was a man ‘without a word of praise or gratitude to America’–and yet ‘no one was listening’ to what Obama truly believed.”
Oren points to Obama’s famous Cairo speech, which he made a few months after taking office in 2009.

During the speech, he affirmed the aspirations of the Palestinians, noting the “pain of dislocation” they have had to endure. Meanwhile, he appeared to chastise Israel for the “daily humiliations – large and small – that come with occupation” that the Palestinians live under. (It should be noted that in the most recent elections, the number of Arab members of the Knesset jumped from 12 to 17.)
Oren notes that that speech alone did much to harden the Palestinians’ belief that the United States’ support for Israel had shifted.
In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, the former ambassador points out that in “May 2011, the president altered 40 years of U.S. policy by endorsing the 1967 lines with land swaps—formerly the Palestinian position—as the basis for peace-making. If Mr. Netanyahu appeared to lecture the president the following day, it was because he had been assured by the White House, through me, that no such change would happen.”
As reported by Western Journalism, following Netanyahu’s election in March, President Obama delayed calling the prime minister to congratulate him, while members of his State Department and his White House spokesman indicated the U.S. may pull support for Israel at the United Nations–paving the way for an imposed two-state solution.

Oren himself experienced the possibility of this shift in a prior conversation with then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice in 2010, who threatened to pull support at the international body unless Israel agreed to “freeze all settlement activity.”
“If you don’t appreciate the fact that we defend you night and day, tell us,” Rice fumed. “We have other important things to do.”
“Not a single brick” more, the president reportedly demanded of Netanyahu, wiping out assurances George W. Bush had made that major settlements in the West Bank would be included in the negotiations. Meanwhile, no demands were made of the Palestinians, who twice turned down peace offers by Israel that included most of the West Bank and portions of Jerusalem.
Dan Shapiro, the United States’ ambassador to Israel, dismisses Oren’s accusations outright about Obama’s views towards and treatment of Israel.
“He was an ambassador in the past, but he is now a politician and an author who wants to sell books. Sometimes an ambassador has a limited point of view into ongoing efforts. What he wrote does not reflect the truth,” Shapiro said. He describes the nation’s current relationship as “effective.”

Oren concedes the two nations’ militaries still work closely, and polling shows the populations still have much good will towards each other. But according to Oren, the problem is at the top–and Obama is mostly to blame.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth