TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Yossi Klein Halevi
July 4, 2015

My friend has been called everything from a publicity hound to a virtual traitor. But he is one of the Jewish people’s most selfless public servants, and he wrote ‘Ally’ to challenge Obama’s Iranian policy, which is placing Israel under existential threat

Michael Oren is my friend. During his nearly five years as ambassador we’d speak on an almost daily basis. Often those phone calls would come at 3 or 4 AM, Washington time, and Michael, enduring another sleepless night, would share his fears about how the Obama administration was compromising Israel’s safety. While too discreet to reveal confidential information, he’d repeatedly say: You won’t believe what the administration is doing. It’s worse than you can possibly imagine. But I can’t talk about it. In his new book, “Ally,” he has now gone public with his anguish. “Ally” has been burning in him for years. It is an impassioned critique of the Obama administration – including some of the details Michael couldn’t reveal as ambassador, when his job required him to publicly insist that American-Israeli relations were strong and unbreakable. READ MORE