Michael B. Oren

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[Wikipedia] Michael Bornstein Oren is an American-Israeli diplomat, writer, and politician. He is a former Israeli ambassador to the United States (2009–2013), former member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and a former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.

Quotes by Michael B. Oren

“an “ominous” figure suggestive of “pestilence and war.”

Michael B. Oren

War

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“detested the missionaries who made people “permanently miserable by telling them…how blissful a place heaven is, and [how] nearly impossible it is…

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“Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases…

Michael B. Oren

Berlin wall

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“such banditti who might for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the Earth.”

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“unfeeling tyrants” who cared no more for their subjects’ lives “than…so many caterpillars upon an apple tree.”

Michael B. Oren

Trees

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“And while generally loyal to the United States, ibn Saud displayed no reservations about negotiating with Britain and France in order to…

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“Those who tried to escape received the customary punishment, as Nicholson harrowingly described: After they had stripped the sufferer naked, they inserted…

Michael B. Oren

Suffering

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“an angel sent on this business…could have done nothing”

Michael B. Oren

Business

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