Until it becomes clear what emerges from any Hamas-Fatah agreement, experts agree that the Obama administration should step back from Middle East peacemaking for now.
Michael Oren says that when he was ambassador the matter of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state was to have been left for the end of the peace process.
A California state appeals court has upheld the conviction of 10 students at the University of California, Irvine, who disrupted a 2010 speech by then-Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren.