Yurki1000 Comment Compilation Part One

I’ve been collecting some comments from Yurki that I haven’t had an opportunity to post. Whether you agree or disagree, I still find them interesting. These comments have a Christian slant and includes Conspiracy Theory and Counterjihad.

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Yurki1000 Comment Compilation Part One

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Comment to: Russia, US Nearing Proxy War in Syria

Context quote: “At worst one has to wonder how much Communism is still an influence in the Russian government. At least one has to wonder if …”

September 14, 2015 at 9:52 AM

Poor Syria. Poor Israel. Poor Middle East. God help them. God help us. God help the world.

This is what God revealed to the prophet Isaiah:

“This message came to me concerning Damascus: ‘Look, Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer will be deserted. Sheep will graze in the streets and lie down unafraid. There will be no one to chase them away. The fortified cities of Israel will also be destroyed, and the power of Damascus will end. The few left in Aram will share the fate of Israel’s departed glory,’ says the Lord Almighty” (Isaiah 17:1-3, NLT).

These opening verses paint a bleak picture. The city of Damascus will become a heap of ruins, utterly destroyed. Few, if any, buildings will be left standing. The once great city will be devoid of human life and will become home to all manner of wildlife in the absence of humans to chase them away.

https://www.raptureready.com/featured/gillette/Isaiah_17.html

Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

God will unite Abraham’s sons :-)

Abraham’s Territory…but not yet! Egypt, Assyria, Israel

Isaiah 19:25 prophesies of this trio saying, “Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.” Here we see the descendants of the 3 wives of Abraham linked together. Assyria is located in the north by the Euphrates, Egypt is located in the south by the Nile and Israel lies smack dab between them, with a road that will connect the three in the future. This alliance of Abraham’s descendants does not exist yet, but will be established in the Kingdom of God, as shown by Isaiah 19:23.

“In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth.”

http://www.thechurchesofgod.com/ABRAHAM%20FATHER%20OF%20MANY%20NATIONS.htm

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Comment to: Yurki1000 – Islam, Conspiracy and Christian Faith

Context quote: “I cross posted a Google Plus comment entitled “A Compendium of Quotes about Islam”. I …”

September 15, 2015 at 12:23 PM

Thanks Oneway2day. You encourage me to continue my work. God bless you and your precious work :-)

I followed some of your links. I found something I’d like to share with you and your readers.

– The U.S. government condemns burning the Qur’an. Yet the U.S. government burns Bibles. This is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

VIDEO: Shariamerica: Islam, Obama, and the Establishment Clause

Published by Acts17Apologetics 

Published on Apr 14, 2011  

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/The U.S. government condemns burning the Qur'an. Yet the U.S. government burns Bibles. This is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

– I really hope people realise that we’re going into the most totalitarian of enslaving totalitarian regimes ever to face mankind. I’m not trying to scare anyone, but when all the elements for all-out tyranny are starting to manifest within our modern society I cannot stay silent any longer. If you really want a true vision of the future read 1984 by Orwell and Brave New world by Huxley. I also recommend Brave New world Revisited also by Aldous Huxley, which explains perfectly the coming enslavement.

VIDEO: Brian Gerrish - Exposing MP's

Posted by Goodfightlads 

Published on Oct 31, 2011 

 I really hope people realise that we're going into the most totalitarian of enslaving totalitarian regimes ever to face mankind. I'm not trying to scare anyone, but when all the elements for all-out tyranny are starting to manifest within our modern society i cannot stay silent any longer. If you really want a true vision of the future read 1984 by Orwell and Brave New world by Huxley. I also recommend Brave New world Revisisted also by Aldous Huxley, which explains perfectly the coming enslavement. 

 Beware of Munay-Ki

– The Earthkeepers are ordinary men and women who live extraordinary lives. They acquire uncommon grace and power through prayer, study of the wisdom teachings, and discipline; believing that people come to the Munay-Ki when they are ready. Many of you have received such a calling from Spirit, and long to make a difference in the world, and in your life. When you enter the path of the Earthkeepers with sincere intention and an open heart, you’ll soon notice that you are in the company of like-minded people who strive to live with ethics and vision. And you’ll find yourself supported by luminous beings who lived on this planet many thousands of years ago, and who are now part of the great matrix of life. These will add their power and vision to yours.

http://munay-ki.org/founder/

And again. Let’s keep on blessing Israel :-)

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Numbers-Chapter-24/

Fathers’ Land

VIDEO: What Really Happened In The Middle East

Posted by media12312345 

Published on Jun 28, 2007 

 The Terrorism Awareness Project http://www.terrorismawareness.org/ [Blog Editor: Data base unavailable as of 10/5/15] has released a powerful 10-minute documentary about the origins and continuing causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/ [Blog Editor: Data base unavailable as of 10/5/15] 

The Terrorism Awareness Project is a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/
which publishes FrontPage Magazine, http://www.frontpagemag.com/ an online journal of news and political commentary. 

http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2007/06/movie_what_real.html 

Based on the pamphlet, "Why Israel Is The Victim" by David Horowitz
Sources for the quotes and facts contained in this presentation can be obtained from the David Horowitz Freedom Center at www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org
What Really Happened In The Middle East is the third video in a series that has been produced and developed by the Freedom Center. The Islamic Mein Kampf and What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad were issued earlier this year and have been distributed to more than two and a half million individuals. All three are available for downloading at www.terrorismawarness.org

Blessings
Jyrki

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Comment to: MAF - Stop Obama's Iran Deal!

Context quote: “Move America Forward (MAF) and a number of Conservative websites and Conservative fund raisers are promoting what is billed as …”

September 16, 2015 at 8:11 AM

Thank you Oneway2day. Zucker’s short film is very good :-)

Somehow “MAF” reminded me of “MTA”. Former Mission To America.

http://www.missiontoamerica.org/

Recent Move To Assurance.

http://www.movetoassurance.org/

The Troops fight. The Nation prays.

– Samuel: 5 Assemble all of Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Eternal on your behalf. 

 6 That day they gathered at Mizpah, drew water, poured it out ritually in front of the Eternal One, and fasted.

People: We have sinned. We have rebelled against the Eternal. 

 Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah, delivering the people from danger and establishing justice in the land. 

 7 When the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had assembled at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines gathered an armed force and went to attack them. When the people of Israel heard that the Philistines were coming, they were filled with fear. They turned to God’s prophet. 

 People of Israel (to Samuel): 8 Don’t stop calling out to the Eternal our God for us. Ask Him to save us from the Philistine army that is coming. 

 9 Samuel took a young lamb and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to the Eternal One. He called out to the Eternal on behalf of Israel, and the Eternal responded. Here is what happened: 10 As Samuel was performing the sacrifice, the voice of the Eternal rolled like thunder and confused the advancing Philistine army so that Israel easily struck them down. 11 From Mizpah, the Israelites chased them beyond Beth-car, striking them along the way. 

 12 That’s why Samuel set up a stone between Mizpah and Shen; and he called that stone Ebenezer, which means “rock of help,” for he said, 

 Samuel: The Eternal One has helped us so far. –

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+7&version=VOICE

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-Chapter-145/

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Comment to: MAF - Stop Obama's Iran Deal!

September 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM

Photo: “The Rock of Help”

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Comment to: MAF - Stop Obama's Iran Deal!

September 17, 2015 at 3:09 AM

They send me Email

http://www.veteransforastrongamerica.org/

Veterans for a Strong America 

 About UsVeterans for a Strong America is a grassroots action organization committed to ensuring that America remains a strong nation by advancing liberty, safeguarding freedom and opposing tyranny. 

http://directimgs.com/vsa/trump/

Make America’s Military Great Again 

 America's enemies grow stronger. Meanwhile, our military is being gutted and our brave men and women in uniform are being treated like dirt. That's why I'm so excited to see a fighter like Donald Trump leading the charge to restore our military's greatness. 

 Please take a moment to sign our online pledge to "Make America's Military Great Again."

https://transaxt.com/Donate/WP78AW/CARLYforAmericaCommittee/?amt=50

Carly For America

https://www.bencarson.com/landing/shop/page-hat/?sc=dhfc0915201

[Blog Editor: Yurki’s link timed out on my browser, so here is some bencarson.com info:]

Ben Carson for President 2016 

 Support Ben for President

https://transaxt.com/Donate/ZFDWLJ/ScottWalkerInc/?src=15EPMNF018

[Blog Editor: Governor Scott Walker has withdrawn but I am certain he still needs help for paying his campaign bills. He is a good guy and might make a good VP]

https://www.gop.com/signed-cheney-book-psb/

Get Your Signed Copy of Dick and Liz Cheney’s New Book 

 Dick and Liz Cheney are out with a new book, and the GOP is offering signed copies. Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America details America’s indispensable role on the global stage, President Obama’s abandonment of this principle and the necessary path to restore American leadership across the globe. 

 With the 2016 race for the White House about to kick into full gear, this is the perfect time to read what Dick and Liz Cheney have to say about the future of American leadership.

http://www.remamarketing.com/

Rema MarketingShining the Torch of Truth on the New World Order 

 Rema Marketing is a truth movement organization with a difference. Rather than shining the torch on the development of the new world order agenda and only taking bits from the Bible as we see fit, we actually believe 100% that the Biblical world view is the correct lense [sic] by which we can properly interpret and understand the events of today. We also believe the New World Order cannot be overcome by a "rise up in arms revolution" because the Bible makes it clear that the New World Order system will only be truly overthrown at the Second coming of Christ. Therefore we inform not to create a violent revolution, but a spiritual revolution, where by being informed, people will be more aware of the importance of their spiritual standing and ready for the coming of the Messiah.

http://www.globalwatchweekly.com/

Global Watch Weekly ReportGlobal Intelligence Disclosures on the Orwellian New World Order Agenda 

 The Global Watch Weekly website is committed to focusing on current events which provide evidence of a one world government agenda. We believe one of the greatest justifications for the authority of the Bible is its significant focus on end time prophecies to help us understand the times we are living in. We research and provide evidence of a new world order agenda that will ultimately lead to the loss of personal liberties and the establishment of a micro chipped population. We believe the more people are informed, the better choices they can make.

From the index of “globalwatchweekly”

http://www.globalwatchweekly.com/thedarkside.htm

THE DARK SIDE OF BIBLE PROPHECY 

 People often ask why we spend so much time in the discussion of bizarre topics, like UFOs and hybrid giants. They wonder why prophecy studies give any time at all to weird subjects like mystery lights in the sky, aerial trumpets and explosions, “alien implants” and “the nephilim.” They wonder why some opt for prophetic sensationalism, rather than focusing on the Gospel, or maturing the saints with the Word of God through traditional Bible study. 

 Such questions are not really new. Traditionally, the mainline institutional church has criticized Christians at the cutting edge of prophecy study for being irrelevant and speculative. They have taken the view that this age is going to end somehow, but the details are so unsupportable that no one can say exactly how. They insist that the elements of Bible prophecy are so confusing that no one can understand them anyway. Rather than have disagreement, they say, let’s avoid the subject entirely. Let’s just spend our time on teaching the daily walk in Christ. Maturing the saints is the real work of the church. 

 But Bible prophecy is now shining light on places that we’ve never been before. The stage is set in the Middle East. Latter-day Israel is positioned to fulfill the many prophecies laid out in the Old Testament. These … READ THE REST

VIDEO: The Illuminati: Knights Templar history and Freemason mystery

Posted by topinfopost 

Published on Oct 16, 2013 

         
MC: From the shadows:Un-released DocumentaryWebsite: http://topinfopost.com

VIDEO Link: http://www.globalwatchweekly.com/singularity.mp4

From the Internet

VIDEO: Transhumanism Part 1/Mark of the Beast: The Ultimate Agenda

Posted by Nicholson1968 

Published on May 24, 2013 

 Link to Part 2: http://youtu.be/pBTCYD2Wax0Link to Part 3: http://youtu.be/56KLmldZvr4

VIDEO: Michio Kaku on The Singularity

Posted by Psychedelic Zeitgeist Singularity 

Published on Nov 13, 2010 

 Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku discusses his thoughts and solution to the Singularity. Excerpt from the tv series Sci Fi Science.

Ps. Trump reminds me of the seven “trumps”.

VIDEO: ISIS in Bible Prophecy: Six Trumpets Have Been Blown! Revelation 8 & 9

Posted by Alan Tattersall 

Published on Dec 3, 2014 

 The first Six Trumpets of the Book of Revelation explained as never before. Every phrase is explained with accurate detail as to where we are today proving that we are now in the period of the Sixth Trumpet of Bible Prophecy 

Recommended following with "Solving the Riddle of the two Witnesses" 

Amazingly the Sixth Trumpet of the Seven Trumpets of Revelation has been blown and we can watch this one happening right now. 

ISIS is the FIRST ANGEL released at the great river Euphrates. 

God spoke to me in mid-July (2014) and told me that the SECOND ANGEL would be released next Thursday. This was THURSDAY July 24th, the day that Iraq elected a new president. 

I have since been told by God that the THIRD ANGEL will be released in DECEMBER and the FOURTH ANGEL in January next YEAR. 

I now understand Revelation 9:15 "So the four angels who had been prepared for the HOUR and DAY and MONTH and YEAR" are released at 4 separate times. 

 
1st angel ISIS = HOUR,2nd angel (Iraq President elected?) on THURSDAY = DAY, 3rd Angel in DECEMBER = MONTH 4th Angel in January 2015 = YEAR.) 

The 3rd angel turned out to be Iran. On December 3, Iranian jets were reported to ISIS in Eastern Iraq. Note that Iran now has a strong alliance with Russia - revealed on December 18 with President Vladimir Putin's speech on the deal on Iran's Nuclear program to be "very close" and on the strong economic relationship between Russia and Iran. 

Feb 10 2015: Reports of would be ISIS suicide bombers "fleeing" to Turkey. (Rev 9:6) 

Six Trumpets Have Been Blown covers in detail matching what has already happened and is happening today with what is written in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. 

1st Trumpet 1st world warRevelation 8:7 The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. 

2nd Trumpet 2nd world warRevelation 8:8 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. 

Revelation 8:9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 

3rd trumpet Chernobyl = wormwood 26/4/1986 Revelation 8:10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on … READ THE REST

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Comment to: My Thoughts on CNN GOP Debate

September 17, 2015 at 7:54 PM

Thanks Oneway2day. Luckily I’m a foreigner. I let my gray cells rest :-)

Somehow I focused on the sentence: “November 2016 is far off still and the number of candidates will be whittled down substantially especially after the early Primaries and Caucuses.”

I try to explain. I wait for my Lord. I believe in the Rapture before the Great Tribulation. I think the Rapture may take place anytime now. Why? Because we already are in the Third Day.

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/2-Peter-Chapter-3/

God promised to circumcise the hearts of the remnant of Israel and raise them up.

Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Deuteronomy&chapter=30&verse=&t=1

Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Hosea&chapter=6&verse=&t=1

The world peace begins when Israel calls her King Messiah “hosanna”.

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-13-35/

2 Corinthians 12:9 And He Said Unto Me, My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee: For My Strength Is Made Perfect In Weakness. Most Gladly Therefore Will I Rather Glory In My Infirmities, That The Power Of Christ May Rest Upon Me.

God is good. He gave us a BIG FAMILY. Some of them can sing and play :-D

VIDEO: Power Praise - What The Lord Has Done In Me [Korean]

Posted by TheSevenSunny 

Published on Sep 29, 2011

Blessings
Jyrki

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Michael Oren Interviewed by Daniel Pipes

This is an interview conducted by Daniel Pipes with Michael Oren centered around the book "Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide". The interview brings out Oren's thoughts on Barack Obama, how Obama has conducted foreign policy with Israel and Obama seemingly allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

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Michael Oren Interviewed by Daniel Pipes
A discussion reveals how Obama purposefully broke the historic US-Israel alliance

Interview

June 24, 2015

DanielPipes.org

Originally: FrontPageMag.com

Daniel Pipes Email Sent: 7/21/2015 9:16 AM

N.B.:

(1) This interview took place at the Free Library of Philadelphia. FrontPageMag.com transcribed it and I edited it. The transcript does not include the question-and-answer period but the video does.

(2) The video is available to watch here.

(3) About the alarm that goes off at the very end: As Amb. Oren was answering my final question, a buzzer went off, we could not continue talking, the event organizer came on the stage to announce that the library had to be evacuated immediately, and the video camera suddenly shuts off. This unceremonious conclusion, fortunately, was just a drill and no one or property were harmed.

(4) The transcript has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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[Blog Editor: Explicit language ALERT. When Oren tells a story relating to Rahm Emanuel and Washington-Speak, the profanity flies especially the F-bomb.]

Daniel Pipes: I am delighted to be here with Michael Oren.

I'll admit that when I began reading his book, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, a very well-written account of his four-plus years as Israeli ambassador to the United States, I started at the beginning, as one tends to do with books, so I had no idea of the news bombshells that lay ahead. (Laughter)

The first inkling came to me when I read a column by John Podhoretz, who suggested that "the annals of diplomatic history" had never witnessed "anything quite like this astonishing account" that "makes news on almost every page." Indeed, the next few days saw a furor over the book and its related three articles. "Borderline hysteria" is how one Israeli journalist, Ben Caspit, summarized the Obama administration's response.

Because of the enormous attention the book has attracted, I will make the assumption that you, the audience, know something about its contents, and I will focus my questions on specific issues regarding three topics: US-Israel relations, the response to the book, and Barack Obama.

Michael: You portray two principles governing historic US-Israel relations—no daylight and no surprises. You argue these have been broken since 2009 and you hope they'll be quickly reasserted. But do you really see this as possible in the year and a half left of Obama's administration? Or do you only hope for this after he leaves office?

Michael Oren: The US-Israel relationship is not static but has evolved. We fought the '67 war with French bullets, not American ones. Beginning in the 1980s, in the middle Reagan years. These two principles, no surprises and no daylight, began to coalesce. What I mean by them?

No surprises: if the United States is going to set out a major new policy position on issues related to the Middle East and Israel's security, it will give us an advance draft of the speech or paper to give us a chance to look at it, give our comments.

No daylight: the two governments will differ over settlements, Jerusalem, and a lot of other issues. But we keep these differences behind closed doors, not display them in public where our mutual enemies will discern the distance between us and will insinuate themselves between us.

Photo: Obama and Oren in the Oval Office

I can't say that these two principles were always honored; we did surprise one another; there was occasional daylight. But these were the historic twin pillars of our alliance. Starting in 2009, however, the new Obama Administration as a matter of policy decided it would not preserve these two pillars.

On surprises, the rupture isn't a matter of debate. For example, the president went to Cairo in June 2009 and gave a very long speech (twice as long as his first inaugural address) which served as the foundational document of his administration's positions on the Middle East. It also touched on many issues vital to Israel's security, such as America's relationship with what Obama called the Muslim world, particularly the outreach to Iran and Iran's right to nuclear energy. Although it had amazing and far-reaching ramifications for Israel, we in the embassy never saw a draft of it, we had no warning of it. And that was just one of many such speeches.

As for daylight, the president openly said, "Look at the past eight years [a reference to the George W. Bush administration]. During those eight years, there was no space between us and Israel, and what did we get from that? When there is no daylight, Israel just sits on the sidelines, and that erodes our credibility with the Arab states." Turns out, he put daylight between the two countries on other issues too, like Iran.

These two pillars were jettisoned and they must be restored. It's not only in the interest of the United States and Israel but, given the immense chaos in the Middle East, it's important for that region as well. Indeed, it's needed for the wellbeing of the world. Why? Because everybody looks at the US-Israel bond. Whether jihadist or Japanese, the globe looks at the way the United States treats its Israeli ally as a litmus test of its ability to rely on the United States.

Therefore, the two pillars need to be restored. Whether that's possible in the year and a half remaining of this presidency, I don't know. All I can say is, I hope so. My book is an ardent and impassioned call to bring this relationship back from the brink, which we've reached, and restore it.

Daniel Pipes: Along with the problems you just delineated, all in the know agree that the US-Israel military relationship is better than ever. How is this possible, what's the logic behind it?

Michael Oren: True, it is better than ever. The cooperation on weapons development, on military aid—which is close to $4 billion a year (75 percent of it spent in the United States)—joint maneuvers, ports of call, and intelligence sharing are indeed superb right now.

Why so? Because the Obama administration distinguishes between diplomatic daylight and security daylight and it calculated that the closer relations are in the security field, the greater leeway it has to put daylight in the diplomatic field. This amounts to a very interesting intellectual exercise, one that did not work.

Middle Easterners simply do not distinguish between diplomatic and security daylight. In the Middle East, daylight is daylight. Daylight in our area of the world, where the sun is very strong, can be blinding and searing. What most Middle Easterners saw over the course of the last six-plus years was the United States and Israel drifting quite far apart in spite of increased security cooperation.

By the way, if you define security relationship more broadly, things look differently. If you include the fact that the United States negotiated for seven months with the Iranians—and that has a certain impact on our security—without even telling us, you can't say the security relationship is better than ever.

Daniel Pipes: You mentioned being unaware of US-Iranian discussions, yet, the president has said that he and his administration have consistently shared information with Israel. True?

Michael Oren: We had a longstanding, intimate dialog with the United States on the Iranian nuclear program which I was privileged to take part in. The Americans were very candid. We looked at the same data and often derived the same conclusions. But we were unaware of the content of that secret track taking place in the Persian Gulf.

Daniel Pipes: You quote former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel waking you up early one morning and yelling, "I don't like this eff-ing excrement."

(Laughter) On another occasion, the deputy secretary of state, the number-two man in the State Department, Tom Nides, screamed at you, "You don't want that eff-ing UN to collapse because of your eff-ing conflict with the Palestinians."

Michael Oren: You understand, if we were in Israel, we'd have no problem actually saying this word? (Laughter) So American. (Laughter)

Daniel Pipes: My question: Is this really the state of diplomacy today? (Laughter)

Michael Oren: Yes. (Laughter) Yes, it is funny. As an aside, Ally went through seven security vettings by the State of Israel: the military censor, two departments within the Defense Ministry, the Mossad, and others. They were very good; believe me, it's amazing there's actually a book.

I was never a diarist, I never before wrote a book in the first person. Making that transformation was profound for me and not at all easy. But when I took this job, my wife Sally gave me a little diary and said, "Hey, you may want to jot down a few things." I replied, "Nah, I don't believe in diaries."

Then, soon after that, Rahm Emanuel calls me at 2 o'clock in the morning and says—can I say this? "I don't like this f**king s**t." (Laughter) And it's like 2 o'clock in the morning. And I said, "Well, I don't like this f**king s**t, either." And it begins from there. (Laughter) So I wrote this incident into my diary. The diary is not classified; you're not going to find secrets in there. But it did provide a lot of color and depth to the book.

Tom Nides—poor Tom Nides. That line, "UNESCO teaches Holocaust studies, for chrissakes. You want to cut off f**king Holocaust studies?" gets quoted a lot as evidence of Nides' animus against the State of Israel. But it's just the opposite: Tom Nides is a great friend of mine and of the State of Israel. In Washington, that's just the way people talk.

One story I didn't include in the book, from a high-ranking member of the administration, a very sweet, young man, who says to me something like, "We're getting out of f**king Iraq, because we've f**king had it with the f**king Iraqis. And we're coming f**king home." And then he looks at me and says, "Why am I talking like this?" (Laughter)

Daniel Pipes: Did you get "special" treatment because you're a born American? Had you been from another country, and not a Native American, would you have been treated the same way?

Michael Oren: No I wouldn't have. This is the flip side of the special US-Israel relationship.

It was also part of my special relationship with people like Rahm Emanuel, who I'd known for a long time before I got into office. Rahm's father had fought in the Irgun, in the Israeli War of Independence. (Hence, his name, Rahm, or thunder.) Rahm had a deli accident when he was 16 and sliced off the top part of a finger. According to Obama, when he lost the top part of that finger, he lost half of his vocabulary. (Laughter) I used to get that finger, all the time.

But when Rahm left the White House and went off to be the mayor of Chicago, I viewed it as a loss for me because he was somebody I could call in the middle of the night. Yes, I was going to get that language. Even though we had serious policy disagreements sometimes, I know he cared passionately about Israel. He was a proud Jew, proud of his father. That created a link that couldn't be broken by policy differences.

Photo: Emanuel and Oren in the mayor of Chicago's office.

The same thing's true with Dennis Ross (who doesn't talk like Rahm). Dennis was that rare Washington Middle East expert who wasn't, as we say in Washington-speak, stove-piped. Which means, you know, you go to somebody who's an expert in Lebanon between 1976 and 1977, that's what they know. (Laughter) Dennis was the only person I knew in Washington who saw the entire region and also saw it historically. He saw it vertically and horizontally. And he had a personal memory too, having been involved in peacemaking for 30 years. When he left, there was another huge loss.

Daniel Pipes: I'd like to try out two favorite theories of mine on you. First: Noting that the government of Israel tends to give away too much when relations are really warm between Jerusalem and Washington, I believe that low-level tensions between the two governments are actually good.

Michael Oren: Here I'd beg to disagree. Historically, Israelis make concessions when we feel secure. In his first meeting with American Jewish leaders, as I quoted earlier, Obama said that he's going to put daylight between Israel and the United States because when there is no daylight, Israel "just sits on the sidelines."

Interesting observation, but empirically wrong. During the Bush years, for example, there was no daylight, so Israelis felt secure. As a result, Israel yanked up 21 settlements from Gaza in 2005. It made a full offer of Palestinian statehood to Mahmud Abbas in 2008: all of Gaza, most of the West Bank, half of Jerusalem. At the height of the second intifada in 2002, Israeli support for a two-state solution was exactly zero; by the time I came onboard in 2009, the intifada was behind us and 70 percent of Israelis supported a two-state solution.

So, when we feel secure, we make more concessions. Strangely enough, the person who understood this best was Richard Nixon: give them support, they'll make concessions.

Daniel Pipes: That was my point.

Michael Oren: Okay. I'm sorry.

Daniel Pipes: I'm saying when US-Israel relations are flourishing, Israelis hand things over. For example, the Philadelphia Corridor in 2007, but that was a mistake. Therefore, I don't mind seeing—

Michael Oren: Oh, you want a little low-level tension, so we don't give in.

Daniel Pipes: Exactly.

Michael Oren: Well, I can't argue with that.

But my responsibility as ambassador was to try to get us on the same page. They were coming to us and asking us to do many very difficult things: "We demand a settlement freeze on the West Bank, a building freeze in eastern Jerusalem, a final-status map for the Palestinians." Take the map issue: every time we gave the Palestinians a map, they put it in their pocket, walked away, and came back two years later saying, "Okay, let's start negotiating from the map you gave us last time." So, we didn't want to give them another map, although the administration demanded we do so.

I would say all the time to the administration, "Rather than threaten us, try love." That was always my line, "Try love, try love." Because Israelis make concession when we feel secure. That's not just Israelis, it's human nature.

Daniel Pipes: Second theory: there used to be a consensus, say in the 1980s, between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, on Israel. It's falling apart, with conservatives ever more friendly to Israel and liberals ever cooler to Israel. From the anecdotes in your book, it sounds like you agree with this analysis, correct?

Photo: Michael Oren and Daniel Pipes

Michael Oren: My anecdotes point to the challenges we faced from certain segments of the American electorate. American opinion on Israel is a little like what physicists say about the universe—it's expanding and contracting at the same time. If you look at all the polls, support for Israel in this country keeps on going up. Even last summer, at the height of Gaza war with the terrible images coming out of Gaza, American support for Israel went up. When I left Washington, something like 74 percent of Americans defined themselves, to one degree or another, as pro-Israel. Crazy! We were right behind Sweden and Canada, which is amazing, considering all the bad press we get.

On the other hand, if you break these statistics down demographically by ethnic group, age group, and party affiliation, the picture's a lot less sanguine.

I've lived in Israel for close to 40 years. Yes, I've come back and even taught at various universities. But for the first time in 2009, I returned for an extended period. I had a Rip Van Winkle experience, as though I'd woken after 25 years and didn't recognize my own village. America had transformed demographically.

America is no longer a white majority population. There are more single-parent families than two-parent families. There was one Jewish judge on the Supreme Court and the rest basically WASPs; now, there's not a single WASP on the Supreme Court but three Jews and six Catholics. The populations growing the most and having greater political influence, especially the Hispanics, lack a traditional attachment to Israel.

Because many Israeli leaders, including our prime minister and defense minister, had been educated in America in the '70s or '80s; they remembered a different America. So, I had to tell them, "Guys, the America you remember ... it ain't there anymore."

I saw Obama's election in 2008 as the symptom of a transformative moment. I'm no prophet but I told Israeli leaders back in 2009 that we have to plan for a two-term president because these changes are permanent. The election of 2012 was much more significant than 2008; it confirmed that the changes are permanent and that Israel has to adjust to them.

Israel has a paramount strategic interest in preserving support for Israel as a bipartisan issue; we should never become the monopoly of one party. This has become increasingly challenging because Israel's experience with terror moved it significantly to the right even as America moved to the left. Israel became more traditional; America less traditional. I had to grapple and try to bridge this reality. Did I succeed entirely? Obviously not. Can we give it up? We cannot. We have to keep on reaching out.

Daniel Pipes: Turning to responses to your book—American officials have been incensed by Ally. Secretary of State John Kerry's spokesman said that it is "absolutely inaccurate and false." Your former counterpart, the US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, said, "I can say as an ambassador that sometimes ambassadors have a very limited view of the conversations between the leaders, and his description does not reflect the truth about what happened." Oddly, Shapiro says he doesn't know anything and therefore you don't know anything. Your response?

Photo: Criss-crossing ambassadors: Daniel Shapiro and Michael Oren.

Michael Oren: It's a strange remark for one ambassador to say about another ambassador. In the past week and a half, I've been called a moneygrubbing politician, delusional, and some other choice words. But all these ad hominem attacks aside, nobody's taking on the book substantively. I tell a story in 400 pages and virtually no one says the facts are faulty: that, say, the Americans did not negotiate for seven months without telling us or that the administration did not cancel flights to Ben Gurion Airport in mid-2014. No one says I just imagined these events.

I think part of the reaction I've received from people in government—notice people in government, not people out of government—has been an oversensitivity to the issues I'm trying to raise.

Which brings me to my reason to bring the book out now. June is a terrible time to bring out a nonfiction book. It's already summer reading, when you bring out Jaws. (In this spirit, I told Random House we should change the name of the book to Jews.) (Laughter) People will read it on the beach! They won't go in the water! You bring out a book like this in October or November to take part in Jewish book month in November and jump on the Christmas-Hanukkah book season.

Also, I'm in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, which means I can't promote the book as I should. I previously went on two-month book tours, which I cannot do with this one.

Nonetheless, I brought it out now because in the next week or so there is liable to be an agreement signed between the United States, other permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany, with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The State of Israel—not just my party, not just the prime minister—views this as a terrible deal, one that deeply endangers us. I would be derelict if I did not tell this story right now. The book had to come out now to trigger the precise conversation we're having tonight. What do they expect from us—to go silently into that night of the signing of this agreement? The Jewish people can't do that.

Daniel Pipes: Let's turn to the last of the three topics: the American president. What do you better think explains Obama's approach to the Middle East and the world: a grand strategy or improvising responses as things happen?

Michael Oren: Barack Obama—as all presidents—came into the White House with a worldview. His happens to be very challenging for the State of Israel. It does not include the notion of American exceptionalism or American leadership. Instead, it prefers a collegial approach to crisis management and world affairs. It implies a certain recoiling from the use of military might and a heavy reliance on international organizations, like the UN, that are not always so friendly to the State of Israel.

Some of us wake up in the morning and say a little berakhah [blessing] that the greatest democracy in the world just happens also to be the greatest military power. It's a wonderful thing. In this light, one of the most illuminating remarks I ever heard Barack Obama make was at the nuclear security summit in 2010, where he said—these words are engraved on my soul, "Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower." Think about that for a second. That was very revealing about the president's attitude toward military might. Would John Kennedy have said that? Would Bill Clinton? George W. Bush?

And then there are Obama's positions on our specific issues, such as his outreach to the Muslim world. I thought it perfectly fine, indeed, it's in our interest, that America improves relations with Muslims—so long as it's not at our expense. The unprecedented support for the Palestinian cause and the reconciliation with Iran, are very problematic for us, however.

This worldview has collided with reality and the result looks like patchwork. Intervention against Qaddafi but nonintervention against Assad. Sort of implicitly cooperating with Shiite forces against ISIS in Iraq but kind-of resisting what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen against ISIS and definitely opposing what Egypt is doing against ISIS in Libya. I can go on.

After almost five years of unprecedented turmoil, violence, and disappointment in the Middle East, that worldview has remained mostly impermeable to change.

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