Oren has claimed Obama "deliberately" damaged US-Israel ties. The president's outreach to the Muslim world, Oren said, was a "failure" rooted in his academic background and "earlier ties to Indonesia and the Muslim villages of Kenya." American Jews have failed to use their powerful positions in the media to help Israel, and instead "fight their Jewish identity to lend credibility to their criticism of Israel."

Oren's insults do not stand alone. If you follow his logic, Oren's implication is that Israel cannot count on Obama or American Jews, so the once-broad foundations of the alliance are essentially lost. As he should know himself from his time as ambassador, this plays into and thus exacerbates one of the most dangerous trends facing Israel: the growing polarization in American politics toward Israel.
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"I could imagine how a child raised by a Christian mother might see himself as a natural bridge between her two Muslim husbands," Oren wrote in Foreign Policy. "I could also speculate how that child's abandonment by those men could lead him, many years later, to seek acceptance by their co-religionists."

That Oren would criticize Obama is hardly surprising, though his psychoanalysis is both condescending and borders on an accusation of divided loyalty — something that is rightly regarded as off-limits among many Jews who know where such accusations can lead.

Oren seemed to write off American Jews as well.

"It's very difficult for American Jews to understand the Israeli experience," Oren said in a Jewish Journal interview. These sorts of Jews, "who haven't gone through that process of running to bomb shelters," don't appreciate that experience.

He extended this line of reasoning, somewhat awkwardly, to the White House itself, arguing that the Obama administration employs the wrong kinds of Jews. "There were discussions in the White House in which there were six Jews — 3 Americans and 3 Israelis, discussing a Palestinian state — and the only non-Jewish person in the room was the President or the Vice President," he said, according to Haaretz. But the non-Orthodox and the intermarried American Jews in the administration "have a hard time understanding the Israeli character."

In that sense, then, Oren sees American Jews in a somewhat similar light as he sees Obama: while less overtly hostile than the president, their fundamental worldview inclines them to take positions that don't serve Israel's interests.