ISRAEL HAYOM
by Richard Baehr
June 21, 2015

It is not surprising that former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren is now in the sights of the Obama Defenders Corps, a collection of U.S. administration officials, sycophantic journalists and other obsessive critics of Israel…Oren is the worst person the White House could want to be on their case at this time. He is not an Israeli who speaks English poorly. He is not and never has been a “right-wing” member of the Likud or another nationalist party. He is not ultra-Orthodox. He does not live on a settlement. He is an American who made aliyah, as did his wife. Oren is also a noted historian and scholar, with three degrees from two Ivy League schools: Columbia and Princeton… He has taught at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown, and for five years was a contributing editor to the liberal New Republic. READ MORE