f Jewish groups for her words. Alan Solow, chairman of
the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, summed up
the unusual and inappropriate nature of Rosenthal’s comments. “As an official
of the United States government, it is inappropriate for the anti-Semitism
envoy to be expressing her personal views on the positions ambassador Oren has
taken, as well as on the subject of who needs to be heard from in the Jewish
community.”
The Israeli government released a statement that said in part, “We received Ms.
Rosenthal’s statements as reported in Haaretz with astonishment and surprise.”
The Obama administration tried to reassure Israel that these comments did not
represent State Department policy.
Unfortunately, the truth is that based on everything we have seen in these
email dumps, this is precisely what the State Department’s policy was.
All of these communications put into context another revelatory email from
Brian Greenspun, owner of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper, who is close to the
Clintons and who fund-raised for them in the past. Greenspun became aware that
Oren had been at his job as ambassador for already six months, and astoundingly
could not get a single meeting with secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Greenspun wrote Clinton in December 2009, “Word has it that the Israeli
ambassador has been trying to meet with you to no avail.
I wanted to make sure you knew that was a belief being shared. I can’t imagine
why your folks would want to keep you two apart. I hear he is solid...”
This corroborates Oren’s own claims in his book, Ally: My Journey Across the
American- Israeli Divide, in which he described how in the early months at his
post as ambassador, Clinton refused to arrange a meeting with him. This was a
bizarre change in protocol from Condoleezza Rice’s time as secretary of state
in which she met with Israel’s ambassador on a regular basis. Yet Clinton’s
staffers pushed off Oren for months with the absurd explanation that she did
not meet with ambassadors of foreign countries. When Oren happened to later run
into Clinton, she patronizingly asked him in jest why he never responded to the
messages she left him.
Clinton’s excuses ring hollow seeing as how six months later her emails show
she summoned Oren for a meeting. Unfortunately this severance of communication
and unfortunate treatment of Israel’s ambassador was the inevitable result of
the attitude toward Israel that seems to have encompassed and defined Clinton’s
tenure as secretary of state.
Mrs. Clinton owes us all an explanation.
Shmuley Boteach is the international bestselling author of 30 books, including
his upcoming The Israel Warrior: Fighting Israel’s Battles in the Marketplace
of Ideas.
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