Oren: Israel must restrict settlement building, create ‘two-state reality’

The American-born academic-turned-diplomat was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s envoy to the United States for more than four years. But when Oren decided to enter politics, he joined a former Netanyahu minister and began questioning the prime minister’s handling of relations with the Palestinians.

Oren is now a key figure in Kulanu, a new centrist party that may play the decisive role in choosing the next prime minister. While the party is focused largely on bread-and-butter issues, Oren is the diplomatic point man, pushing for bolder efforts to end Israeli presence in the West Bank after decades of failed negotiations.

 

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