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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:49 AM Jun 2015

Netanyahu said to deny US request to disavow Oren op-ed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an American request to publicly distance himself from the criticism aimed at the White House by former ambassador Michael Oren, according to an Israeli newspaper.

Oren, now a member of the Knesset with the Kulanu party, wrote an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday accusing US President Barack Obama of intentionally abandoning Israel.

The op-ed has drawn unhappy reactions from the US, including an angry phone call from US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro to Netanyahu, asking the prime minister to renounce Oren’s ideas in a public statement, according to a report in Haaretz Thursday.

Netanyahu refused Shapiro’s request and said he had no intention of publicly addressing the piece, an anonymous source told the newspaper.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-to-deny-us-request-to-disavow-oren-op-ed/

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Netanyahu said to deny US request to disavow Oren op-ed (Original Post) bemildred Jun 2015 OP

Nuttinyahoo loves to make friends all over. R. Daneel Olivaw Jun 2015 #1

Bibi will see a stronger stick for that, I think. n/t Jefferson23 Jun 2015 #2

Why doesn't the rest of the world love Israel? geek tragedy Jun 2015 #3

A real diplomat he is, almost one of a kind-well except for maybe a couple of FM's azurnoir Jun 2015 #4

A loose cannon, is what he is. This is not the first time he has mouthed off. bemildred Jun 2015 #5

R. Daneel Olivaw

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1. Nuttinyahoo loves to make friends all over.

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:49 PM

Jun 2015

Jefferson23

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2. Bibi will see a stronger stick for that, I think. n/t

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 01:50 PM

Jun 2015

geek tragedy

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3. Why doesn't the rest of the world love Israel?

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 02:37 PM

Jun 2015

Such a humble, gracious country that treats its friends with only the utmost of respect.

I guess they're still peeved that we're not willing to start a war with Iran at their behest.

azurnoir

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4. A real diplomat he is, almost one of a kind-well except for maybe a couple of FM's

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 06:56 PM

Jun 2015

bemildred

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5. A loose cannon, is what he is. This is not the first time he has mouthed off.

Reply to azurnoir (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 07:09 PM

Jun 2015

From the Forward:

Michael Oren vs. The New York Times

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But with Oren now giving his account, Rosenthal recalled that one line from Abbas’s piece that seemed to exercise the Israeli diplomat was the Palestinian’s assertion that “Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened.”

“This historical narrative has been frequently challenged, but it is one that is widely held by Palestinians and is their view of history,” he wrote in his email.

As for Oren’s complaint that the piece falsely stated that the Arabs accepted the 1947 partition while Israel rejected it, Rosenthal seemed genuinely perplexed.

“That was the complaint,” he recalled in a follow-up interview. “We checked the thing he complained about and found it was not in the article. There was no factual issue to correct. Whether he was upset because he doesn’t think we should be publishing Abbas, I don’t know; you have to ask him.”

http://forward.com/opinion/310338/new-york-times-michael-oren-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Main

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