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And the hypocrisy continues…

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Who is Michael Oren?

So...even a proportional Israeli response to Iran's attacks on Israel will be seen by Israel's Western allies as unacceptable...and I struggle to understand this double standard.

Oren on MSNBC today:

“From Israel’s perspective, we have been in a regional war since Oct. 7, and that war is now an all-out war,” said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, a historian and one of the country’s more hawkish diplomats. “We are in a war for our national survival, period.”

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Iron Dome: Israel’s Double-Edged Sword (Part I)

The Almost Impenetrable Dome

by Michael Oren

Why, when the Israelis were so well protected by Iron Dome, did they have to devastate Gaza? That was the question posed by so many leaders, journalists, and much of world opinion. When Israelis had access to bomb shelters and early warning systems, why then exact vengeance on the innocent Palestinians who had neither? Interviewing on CNN during the operation, I was asked—twice, without irony—why doesn’t Israel provide Iron Dome to Gaza?

Israel, it seemed, had the right to defend itself but only passively, shooting Iron Dome until it ran out of interceptors. The fact that millions of Israelis were huddled in those shelters and traumatized by the sirens, that tourists canceled their trips to the country and high-tech funds withdrew their investments, were insignificant compared to the thousands of Palestinians, whom, according to much of the world were purposely killed, maimed, and displaced by the IDF. And the fact that, even with a ninety-five percent success rate, five out of every one hundred rockets penetrated Israel’s defense, was routinely dismissed. While Israeli bombs and artillery shells could wipe out entire neighborhoods—so the argument held—Palestinians rockets were little more than firecrackers.

That reality reached monstrous proportions after the onslaught of October 7. Over the next eight months, Hamas would fire more than 12,000 rockets at Israel, but Iron Dome once again proved more than ninety percent effective. “Only” nineteen Israeli civilians were killed by rocket fire. By contrast, the Gaza Health Authority—a euphemism for Hamas—claimed that the IDF killed more than 30,000 Palestinians. Though half of the dead were terrorists, the world accused Israel of indiscriminately bombing and intentionally starving civilians. Alongside the “D Word” was now another: G, for genocide.

Welcome to the other side of Iron Dome—its soft underbelly. The system surely saves lives and prevents larger wars, but it also serves some the terrorists’ most fundamental and long-term interests. The “D Word,” I’ll explain in Part II, is only the beginning.

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"We've killed 15,000 terrorists. About 11 percent of the Palestinian rockets fall short, in Gaza. There are no bomb shelters, and Hamas won't let a single civilian into the tunnels. So those rockets kill people. We don't know how many they kill - it could be like Al-Ahli hospital, where 50 people were killed. And then in a population of two and a half million over the course of eight months, well over 4,000 people died of natural causes. So when you do all the math, you come out to roughly the equivalent of one combatant for every civilian death, which is unmatched by any other army in modern times. When the United States fought in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, it was between one on four and one on nine." - Michael Oren, Mishpacha Magazine, page 75, Issue 1014, June 5, 2024

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UPDATE: Twitter Suspends Ambassador Michael Oren’s Account, Then Gives It Back

We are trying at this time to find out why Oren's account was suspended.

Twitter last Wednesday night suspended the account of former Israeli ambassador to the United States (2009–2013), former MK (Israel Beiteinu, Kulanu), and former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Michael Oren, leaving in its place the statement: “Account suspended, Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.”

UPDATE: Around noon Israel time, Monday, Amb. Oren’s Twitter account came back to life. Twitter claims it made a mistake.

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File under PROPAGANDA FAILS...

Michael Oren is also actively engaged in spreading the conspiracy theory that Ahed Tamimi’s family are “crisis actors” -- a perrenial favorite of the far-right.

To learn more about Ahed Tamimi, here is the Amnesty International page calling for her release from unjust imprisonment.

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The New York Times does it again, reporting that “at least 22 Palestinians, including militants and children, were killed in Gaza...and four Israeli civilians died.” Palestinian kids are killed while Israelis mysteriously die.

— Michael Oren (@DrMichaelOren) May 6, 2019

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Are the Palestinians getting it? Giulio Meotti

The sky should have fallen. The gates of hell should have been forced open The Middle East should have plunged into even more chaos. The Jews should have had to pay dearly. It's been two weeks since the American decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and yet little or nothing has happened.

The Palestinian Arabs did not go out en masse to the streets to take part in violence, more worried about what they would lose by participating in terrorism and demonstrations (entry permits, work, freedom, housing, family members) than by “the occupation". Fifteen years ago, Israeli tanks re-entered Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Bethlehem, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem. There had been suicide bombers, snipers, rockets, thousands of dead. Today, a few kids throwing rocks, the bad mood of the tour operators in Bethlehem and a very timid reaction from the Arab countries, the minimum possible.

What does all this tell us? That Israel may have accomplished what is called the "taking off" in surfing, when the critical wave is overcome. In this case the wave is  Arab-Islamic rejection. It is not that the Palestinian Arabs have become pacifists or that they now love the Jews. More terror attacks will come. Perhaps they only hate their own corrupt leaders, like Mahmoud Abbas.

But perhaps they also understand that Israel will not pack and leave, that it will remain on the map, that the Jews and not the terrorists will decide their destiny, that the IDF is invincible, that "the wall" is high and that after 70 years of terror the Israeli Jews have won.

A few days ago, many pro Palestinian Arab rallies took place in Italy's biggest cities: Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence...Thousands of people chanted "Intifada", "No to Zionism" and "Palestinian Resistance". But Europe's fate these days looks much darker than Israel's.

Michael Oren, deputy minister for Public Diplomacy, former US ambassador to Washington, told me something doesn’t allow me rest: “We are having more troubles with some European countries than with the Arab ones”.