Summary

Israeli ambassador to the United States under the Netanyahu government, whose writings on Barack Obama are quoted in Chapter 5 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine as evidence of Israeli suspicion of Obama (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.152).

Details

  • Oren wrote that “From the moment he entered office, Mr. Obama promoted an agenda of championing the Palestinian cause” (PDF p.152, citing his Wall Street Journal piece of June 16, 2015).
  • The chapter says Oren, as representative of the Netanyahu government, chalked Obama’s stance up to his “ties to Indonesia and the Muslim villages of Kenya” (PDF p.152, citing his Foreign Policy piece of June 19, 2015).

Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu