Michael Oren

Michael Oren, formerly the Israeli ambassador to the United States, a Knesset member, and the deputy minister for diplomacy, is the founder of the Israel Advocacy Group and the author of the Substack Clarity.

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  1. This War Isn’t Like Israel’s Earlier Wars

    The parallels between this crisis and the Yom Kippur War of 1973 are striking, but superficial. The differences are what will shape the conflict to come.

    Left: A Skyhawk levels for a ground attack to aid an Israeli infantry column during the battle for the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War. Right: Israeli soldiers deploy in an area where civilians were killed in the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023.
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Keystone/Getty; OREN ZIV/AFP /Getty.
  2. The Many Holocausts

    In the aftermath of the Shoah, different nations embraced different narratives of the tragedy. Today, though, the world needs to hear all of these complementary messages.

    A wall of pictures of former Auschwitz prisoners
    Axel Schmidt / Reuters