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    Michael Oren still 'enjoying every minute' as Israel's envoy to U.S.
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    I glanced at the schedule for the coming year and I didn't see any vacations. In the U.S. there's a tradition of vacation for leaders, in Israel it's less common. The ambassador also customarily joins American leaders on their visits to Israel. Condoleezza Rice [the former U.S. secretary of state], for example, visited our region 26 times. Full Article at Haaretz
    I glanced at the schedule for the coming year and I didn't see any vacations. In the U.S. there's a tradition of vacation for leaders, in Israel it's less common. The ambassador also customarily joins American leaders on their visits to Israel. Condoleezza Rice [the former U.S. secretary of state], for example, visited our region 26 times.
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
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Michael Oren still 'enjoying every minute' as Israel's envoy to U.S.
  1. I would come to see him with a delegation of senators, for example, and he would say: 'Ask me any question.' And then he would give a 20-minute answer - exactly the same answer, no matter what the question was.
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  2. Have you ever asked how hotdogs are made?
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  3. I have a file at home as thick as a phone directory with all the rejection letters I've received. From the age of 12, I used to write one poem a day, and at the age of 13, I wanted to publish a book of poems. When they rejected me I took it very hard, I cried. Had I known at the time how many rejection ...
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  4. There was tension, but we understand their internal complexities and they understand ours. There may be a fear of an erosion in the U.S. commitment to maintaining Israel's qualitative military advantage, which had already begun during the Bush administration, but America renewed the guarantees, and we a...
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  5. Rabin had a wonderful trick
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  6. The White House did not condemn the decision, it expressed regret, and the announcement ended with a constructive statement.
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  7. I was the first to access these documents, and I also got to archives in Jordan, Syria and Russia.
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  8. There's not much time to sleep either, but I'm enjoying every minute.
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  9. There are things that it's better not to ask.
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago
  10. The moment they have a launching system and a mass of uranium, even at a low level of enrichment, the moment the Iranian leadership decides to go with the program, they can do it quite quickly, in one fell swoop. The U.S. administration promised us that if the Iranians don't give a clear answer to the A...
    SOURCE: Haaretz 2 months ago

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