Obama..he should not push Israel, blah blah blah. Oren makes abundantly clear the
Palestinians don't have a chance and shouldn't.

conspiracy theory of Jews controlling the media--that self-loathing Jews who edit The New Republic, NY Times, etc drive media coverage by publishing articles criticial of Israel. He goes so far as to pretty much say that people criticize Netanyahu because of anti-Jewish bigotry.

He includes in his roll-call of self loathing Jews . . . Thomas Friedman and Leon Wieseltier. Because they write like Americans instead of like Likud party members from West Jerusalem.

He's insane.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.661505

Let's see who will defend him, and I don't mean here on DU.

From his piece:
"Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, claims that Jewish journalists are largely responsible for American media’s anti-Israel coverage and the “double standard” it applies in its coverage of the Jewish state."

And also:
"Oren says that he was particularly pained by articles critical of Israel in which “the bylines were Jewish”. Pondering what could drive Jews to “nitpick” at what he describes as their own “nation-state”, Oren claims that some “saw assailing Israel as a career enhancer – the equivalent of Jewish man bites Jewish dog – that saved several struggling pundits from obscurity.”


My take:
Apparently Oren feels that Israel is subject to a "double standard". Israel, by its actions, has held itself above International Law since its inception, and that intensified after the 1967 War and the massive Israeli land theft of Palestinian, Egyptian, and Syrian land. If there is any double standard it is that Israel is allowed to commit violations, such as land theft and aggression, that Iraq was punished severely for.

And then he uses the term "nitpick" when describing attacks against civilians, theft of land and resources, constructing an illegal wall to protect the illegal settlements, and other violations of International Law far too numerous to list here. About what I would expect from a former government official who was paid to cover up and deflect criticism of Israeli government crimes.

He gave up his US citizenship that year.

Source: The Wall Street Journal June 16, 2015

Netanyahu and the president both made mistakes, but only one purposely damaged U.S.-Israel relations.

‘Nobody has a monopoly on making mistakes.” When I was Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to the end of 2013, that was my standard response to reporters asking who bore the greatest responsibility—President Barack Obama or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—for the crisis in U.S.-Israel relations.

I never felt like I was lying when I said it. But, in truth, while neither leader monopolized mistakes, only one leader made them deliberately.

Israel blundered in how it announced the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods and communities in Jerusalem over the border lines that existed before the Six Day War in 1967. On two occasions, the news came out during Mr. Netanyahu’s meetings with Vice President Joe Biden. A solid friend of Israel, Mr. Biden understandably took offense. Even when the White House stood by Israel, blocking hostile resolutions in the United Nations, settlement expansion often continued.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-obama-abandoned-israel-1434409772

I surely don't remember things happening the way he describes them. All the events described were Netanyahu's fault.