TIMES OF ISRAEL
by David Horovitz
June 17, 2015

How Yuval Steinitz initiated the deal on Assad’s chemical weapons, Netanyahu’s Turkish mistake, and 18 other disclosures in ex-US envoy’s ‘Ally’

Michael Oren’s new book “Ally,” to be published next week, details what he calls “My journey across the American-Israeli divide.”…These [anecdotes] range from the trivial, like the day his wife passed up the opportunity for a chat with George Clooney, to the significant, including sensitive discussions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli and American figures…3. Kissinger’s bleak assessment of Obama’s approach to the Middle East:Meeting with Henry Kissinger early in his term, Oren finds the ex-secretary of state gloomy over the president’s eagerness to reconcile with Iran. Surely, says Oren, the White House realizes that an “Iran with nuclear capabilities means the end of American hegemony in the Middle East?” Retorts Kissinger: “And what makes you think anybody in the White House still cares about American hegemony in the Middle East?” READ MORE