![]() ![]() ‘I know how to deal with people who oppose me’ "The first thing Obama will do in office is pick a fight with Israel," Oren recalls a confidant as telling him in the early days of the administration.īelow are a series of passages that reveal in detail how the U.S.-Israel alliance hit historic lows under the Obama administration.ġ. Obama stacked his administration with senior officials hostile to Israel and pursued a policy of "daylight" with Jewish state, Oren recounts. "Prophecy was not required to foresee that an Obama presidency might strain the U.S.-Israel alliance," Oren writes in the early pages of his book. It provides a window into the daily stresses and strains Obama and his allies heaped upon the Jewish state-from placing unprecedented demands on Israel regarding the peace process to fabricating crises in the U.S.-Israel alliance. The memoir, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, has already rushed to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. ![]()
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