Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide | Summary

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Ally as an account of Michael Oren's life is mainly focused on his thoughts, feelings, and achievements while serving as Israeli ambassador to the US government. Politically and historically accurate, it brings about a sense of how it might feel to know the land of your ancient ancestors and the land of your faith when under violent attack by enemies. Michael suffered racism, in America, from an early age as his was the only Jewish family in his working-class neighborhood, watching it grow into the horrific events in Israel and those of 9/11. It can't be said this is an unbiased view of the events surrounding the Middle East crisis, many of the accounts of attacks and brutality have been reported form a specifically Israeli point of view. Michael Oren presents the facts, however, regarding these attacks on his home and faith, even if the attacks and atrocities committed by the Israelis themselves have been left out. I see no blame in this, Michael Oren is now an Israeli Jew and as such has had his homeland, religion, and close family attacked on hundreds of occasions. Some stretching back into antiquity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Summary Station
• Release date: Apr 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310940781

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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

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Printed in the United States of America

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Analysis

Introduction

Yitzhak Rabin, hero of the Six Day War, has been an influence on Oren's life since seeing him at age fifteen in a packed Washington DC hotel basement. Sharing Rabin's values, Oren devoted himself to Israel and defended it from criticism, eventually becoming what he vowed to be at age fifteen – Israeli Ambassador to the United States.

Chapter 1

Born a US citizen in Upstate New York, the then Michael Bornstein handed over his worn passport to officials in the Israeli Embassy. He had lived in the States for more than fifty years and looked forward to coming back any time he had traveled to another country.

Love for the USA grew as he did, raised in the New Jersey town of West Orange he played little league baseball and attended his high school prom in a bright yellow tuxedo. His father would take him to army reunions to meet the men he served with during the Second World War and to watch the color guards parade. Oren was in a marching band, attended Boys State, where Vietnam veterans gave him and some others lessons in American democracy and took part in his high school play, landing