"Obama Damaged Israel Ties"

U.S. President Barack Obama has deliberately damaged U.S.-Israel relations, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Tuesday.

In the op-ed, titled "How Obama abandoned Israel," Oren, now a Kulanu MK, accused Obama of violating the "two core principles of Israel's alliance with America," which, according to Oren, are "no daylight" and "no surprises."

Referring to disputes between Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Oren, whose four-year stint in Washington ended in 2013, wrote, "Neither leader monopolized mistakes, [but] only one leader [Obama] made them deliberately."

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