On Monday, February 8 of 2010, the University of California-Irvine Law School, School of Social Sciences, and various campus and off-campus organizations sponsored “U.S. & Israel: Relations from a Historical and Personal Perspective.” The speaker was Michael B. Oren, Israel’s Ambassafor to the United States.
Oren is a former Israeli Defense Forces soldier who participated in the wars with Lebanon and has now become the spokesperson in charge of re-branding Israel’s image after it was condemned for its actions in 2009′s Gaza massacre, and accused of war crimes and potential crimes against humanity by Justice Richard Goldstone and the UN Human Rights Council. He was sent by the Israeli government to tour America in an attempt to recreate the image of Israel as a democracy victimized by the negative treatment of the international community. His formal position is that of an ambassador, and spokesperson of a state that is condemned by more UN Human Rights Council resolutions than any other country in the world.
