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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Audiences had to be reminded of the myriad leaflets the IDF had dispersed warning Palestinian civilians to leave combat areas and about the operation’s unprecedentedly low ratio of civilian-to-combatant casualties.
from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
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had to step over supine protesters with signs saying “Dead Gazan.” Once again I had to snap out of it in order to defend Israel in public.
from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
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But Abbas never bothered to respond.
from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
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Shockingly, then, shortly after taking office, the Obama administration disavowed the letter. Denying the existence of any “informal or oral agreement” on Israeli construction in Jerusalem and the settlement blocs, the State Department further asserted that the letter “did not become part of the official position of the United States.”
from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
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majority wanted to see the Palestinians enjoy the right to self-determination, but not at the cost of denying Israelis the most fundamental right: to life. They looked around the Middle East and saw the overthrow of corrupt, nonelected Arab rulers and their replacement by Islamist radicals.
from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
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In time, Kerry would caution Israelis about the outbreak of a Third Intifada if they failed to make peace, of facing economic boycotts and of becoming an apartheid state. Perceived as threats, these messages reinforced, rather than weakened, those most opposed to his initiative.
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This nebulous cabal made support for Israel, portrayed as a militantly theocratic and colonialist state, the centerpiece of America’s postwar Middle East policy and the primary source of Muslim rage against the United States.
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They resounded in the administration’s respect for the “international community,” a grouping that included North Korea, Pakistan, and Sudan, and which many Israelis considered an oxymoron.
from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
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The paper served as a primer on the administration’s foreign
from Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
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