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Michael Oren: Historian to be Israeli ambassador?

A Hebrew-speaking reader sends over a report in Maariv that the historian Michael Oren is the frontrunner to be that country's ambassador to Washington.

It's an interesting choice -- he's written a couple of histories of the Middle East that were bestsellers in this country, the most recent of which covered ... U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
Read entire article at Politico.com