Posted on 06/17/2015 5:28:36 PM PDT by Nachum
A spokesman for the State Department in Washington on Wednesday denounced what he called the "false" assertions by former Israeli ambassador and current MK Michael Oren, who said the Obama administration has abandoned Israel.
In an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Oren, now a member of the Kulanu party, said President Barack Obama had dropped the core principles guiding Israeli-U.S. ties of "no daylight, no surprises."
Oren, who served as ambassador from 2009 to 2013, acknowledged that Israel blundered in many instances, but added that "while neither leader monopolized mistakes, only one leader made them deliberately."
"From the moment he entered office, Mr. Obama promoted an agenda of championing the Palestinian cause and achieving a nuclear accord with Iran. Such policies would have put him at odds with any Israeli leader," Oren wrote.
On Wednesday, State Department spokesman John Kirby insisted that as Oren had only been the ambassador, he "had limited visibility into many of the private discussions and deliberations that he describes."
Secretary of State John Kerry believed that Oren's account, "particularly the account of President Obama's leadership in the U.S.-Israeli relationship, is absolutely inaccurate and false, and doesn't reflect what actually happened in the past," Kirby was quoted by AFP as having told reporters.
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The US has abandoned the US, not just Israel.
Our government has gone completely ****ing insane.
Yes, it has.
Is this what it felt like to live in Vichy France? Most of the the institutions and agencies are outwardly the same, but the highest leadership is in fact, the Enemy.
Israelis are disappointed in the near total silence that Oren details in his book.
Abe Foxman make $650k at the ADL an blames Israel not Obama for bad US Israel relations.
Many grass roots American Jews are begging the mainline Jewish organizations to get Israel a better shake in the media bias. Begging them to complain in public about Kerry and Obama. Hoping that congress will keep promises on the Iranian deal oversight.
During the holocaust American Jews sat on their hands seems like history is going to compare the Iranian Holocaust with nuke with WWII and see yet again how Jews didn’t care
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Funny, they don't denounce the mullahs. They say they're rational.
The Obama administration had NOT abandoned Israel!
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
I will never hire lobbyists to work in my administration.
It isn’t a war, it is a kinetic military activity.
GM has recovered and Al Qaeda is retreating.
If elected president I will not take vacations.
ISIS is junior varsity.
Christians in America are just like ISIS ‘cause 1,700 years ago they caused the Crusades.
My mother died because she didn’t have access to affordable health care.
Obamacare will reduce everyones health care costs by about, oh, $2,000! That’s the ticket.
Their reasoning is rational, once you accept their insane premises.
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