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Michael Oren: The Fallout of Assad’s Fall

Michael Oren: The Fallout of Assad’s Fall Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren The IDF has acted swiftly and effectively in responding to the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. It has bombed Assad’s chemical arsenal, destroyed his armored and missi

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Michael Oren: The Cold War Arms Race Redux

Michael Oren: The Cold War Arms Race Redux Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren   While Iran battles Israel directly or through its proxies, another, more discreet but no less fateful war is raging throughout the region. It is a war with deep historic

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Michael Oren: The Diplomatic Whiplash of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

Michael Oren: The Diplomatic Whiplash of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration this January will signal a tectonic shift in American foreign policy unmatched by any since Ronal

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Michael Oren: The Altneu Antisemitism: Part II

Michael Oren: The Altneu Antisemitism: Part II Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren Ancient antisemitic tropes have now thoroughly, if often unconsciously, entered acceptable daily discourse. Part I of The Altneu Antisemitism introduced the process through

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Michael Oren: The Altneu Antisemitism: Part I

Michael Oren: The Altneu Antisemitism: Part I Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren The spike in antisemitism globally is hardly news. And yet, there is something about contemporary antisemitism that sets it apart from its earlier and even ancient versions

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Michael Oren: Contextualized and Decontextualized: Israel’s Fight for Truth

Michael Oren: Contextualized and Decontextualized: Israel’s Fight for Truth Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren Speaking on a Pod Save America podcast last November 7, former President Barack Obama urged listeners to “take in the whole truth” about

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Michael Oren: How the Israel-Iran Rope-a-Dope Ends

Michael Oren: How the Israel-Iran Rope-a-Dope Ends Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren Evenings after coming home from work, my father taught me how to box. The only Jewish kid in a working-class neighborhood, I was being bullied by a slightly older antis

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Michael Oren: The Price of a Hug

Michael Oren: The Price of a Hug The following article is adapted from an op-ed I published in Hebrew last week in Yediot Aharonot. Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren Casus belli is a Latin legal term meaning “justification for going to war.” Iran’

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Michael Oren: Israel Must Battle the “But”

Michael Oren: Israel Must Battle the “But” Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren “I will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.” So declared Vice

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Michael Oren: Israel-September and October—Parallels and Contrasts

Michael Oren: Israel-September and October—Parallels and Contrasts Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren The following article was adapted from an op-ed I published last week in YNET. The thesis bears repeating—and expanding—here. Twenty-three years a

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Michael Oren: Should Israel Strike First?

Michael Oren: Should Israel Strike First? Free Press  Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren Is this period more like 1967, when Israel preemptively attacked its enemies? Or like 1973—when it failed to do so? For more than two weeks, Israelis have been wa

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Michael Oren: America First, Indeed

Michael Oren: America First, Indeed Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren A week ago, as the anticipated Iranian attack on Israel loomed, I wrote an op-ed for the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot on the preferred military response. The article attracted attent

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Michael Oren: Washington’s Wavering Support for Israel

Michael Oren: Washington’s Wavering Support for Israel Sharp shifts in American policy cast doubt over whether the US will have Israel’s back if it needs to preemptively strike Iran Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren With Iran and its proxies thr

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Michael Oren: A Very Perilous Window

Michael Oren: A Very Perilous Window Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren “In the Middle East, Iran’s axis of terror confronts America, Israel and our Arab friends,” Israeli Prime Minister declared in the first paragraph of his speech to the Joint Se

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Michael Oren: Israel is Losing the North

Michael Oren: Israel is Losing the North This piece was originally published in The Times of Israel. Thanks to Clarity with Michael Oren In contrast to English, in which people who can’t get their bearings straight become disoriented—literally, they f

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Michael Oren: Israel’s Double-Edged Sword (Part III)

Michael Oren: Israel’s Double-Edged Sword (Part III) Clarity with Michael Oren This is the final part of a three-part series on the dilemmas posed by Israel’s Iron Dome Throughout the opening decades of its existence, Israel’s defense strategy cente

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Michael Oren: Reflections on Peoplehood, Democracy, and Grief

Michael Oren: Reflections on Peoplehood, Democracy, and Grief Clarity with Michael Oren I proudly serve as president of the Hadas Malka Foundation that assists the needy and bereaved families of the Israel Border Police. The foundation is named for a youn

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Michael Oren – A Page from the 1968 Playbook?

Michael Oren – A Page from the 1968 Playbook? Clarity with Michael Oren The anti-Israel protesters of 2024 are trying to emulate the demonstrations that took place in many of the same universities back in the late 1960s. But are the two movements re

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Michael Oren: Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies (Part III)

Michael Oren: Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies (Part III) The Scorpion and the Frog This is Part III of a three-part series on the radicalization of Middle East studies. Over the past five decades Middle East studies have had a profound i

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Michael Oren: Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies (Part II)

Michael Oren: Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies (Part II) Credit to Clarity with Michael Oren Michael Oren  @michaeloren לשעבר שגריר ישראל בארה״ב • חבר כנסת וסגן שר במשרד ראש הממשלה • Fo

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Michael Oren: How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington

Michael Oren: How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington This article originally appeared in The Free Press. Historians will look back and wonder how the U.S. not only allowed Iran to repeatedly assault its citizens, soldiers, and allies

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Michael Oren: Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies

Michael Oren: Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies Credit to Clarity with Michael Oren Michael Oren  @michaeloren לשעבר שגריר ישראל בארה״ב • חבר כנסת וסגן שר במשרד ראש הממשלה • Former Israe

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Michael Oren – The Final Battle for the Holocaust

Michael Oren – The Final Battle for the Holocaust In Gaza, Israel is not only fighting for our future, but also for our past. Credit to CLARITY Along with destroying Hamas and reestablishing our security, the great unspoken objective of Israel in Gaza i

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Michael Oren: Time to Say, I Told You So

Former Ambassador Michael Oren is no hero. In his recent bombshell interviews and the publication of his book he simply brought to light what I have been saying for a long time.