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1 week ago | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
Israel’s Operation Rising Lion in Iran will end in one of two ways. Either the regime in Tehran will implode or President Trump will negotiate a ceasefire. Irrespective, the result must be the same. The Islamic Republic’s empire must fall. For many years now, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, American diplomacy on Iran has focused on curbing its nuclear program. Successive presidents have pledged to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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3 weeks ago | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
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3 weeks ago | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
Throughout the day, Monday, June 2, CNN ran the headline, “Dozens shot dead and injured near Gaza aid hub, health ministry and doctors say.” The story opened by accusing Israel of committing the massacres, citing “Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses,” before mentioning—almost as an afterthought—that Israel denied that its troops fired anywhere near the site.
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2 months ago | 
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
For the first time last week, before President Trump’s televised altercation with President Zelensky in the White House, the United States sided with Russia in opposing a UN resolution condemning Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. And for the first time on such a resolution, Israel also voted “no.”The event, which further deepened the West’s division between America’s pro-Russian and Europe’s pro-Ukrainian camps, forced Israel to choose between its U.S. and Western European allies.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
A diplomatic coup de main or more Trumpian madness? A strategic move like Trump’s threatened tariffs for Canada and Mexico—or a sincere proposal to take over a strip in the Middle East? Depending on who you ask, President Trump’s pronouncements on the Middle East, made in the presence of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, could be described either way.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
After the Casablanca Conference in 1943, the Allies—the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union—committed to the “unconditional surrender” of Nazi Germany and Japan. That goal never changed. By contrast, the American policy toward this war has changed repeatedly.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
Critics of Israel’s conduct of the war, both left-wing and right, have pointed out its many failures. After nearly a year and a half of intense combat, Hamas continues to control significant parts of Gaza, Hezbollah is far from defeated, and pro-Iranian militias in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen remain unbowed. Iran, moreover, the widely-crowned head of the snake, though weakened, still threatens Israel on multiple fronts. As of this writing, dozens of hostages languish in terrorist captivity.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
Outgoing President Joe Biden has described the hostage deal as a great diplomatic achievement. President-elect Donald Trump has called the deal “epic.” Iran is hailing it as a historic victory over the evil Zionists. In Gaza, Hamas terrorists and their supporters are triumphantly parading and firing their guns in the air. Ironically, the only people not reacting with unbridled joy - the reactions, in fact, are fragmented and often agonized - are we, the Israelis.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com | Michael Oren
President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration this January will signal a tectonic shift in American foreign policy unmatched by any since Ronald Reagan's swearing in 43 years before. With his understanding that diplomacy, to be effective, must be backed by power, Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter who acted as if words alone could prevent the overthrow of the Shah of Iran or the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.