While this article was being penned, the staff of Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon waited for the next article by their fellow party member, Knesset member Michael Oren. Overnight, former Ambassador Oren has become the latest troublemaker on the White House-Jerusalem front, simultaneously managing to get himself into hot water with the US administration and his political patron in Israel, who has disavowed what Oren wrote.

The spokesperson for Oren, who is on a lecture tour in the United States, informed the party simply that he wrote three articles. The first two have caused a major uproar. “Go figure what to expect in the third article,” said some of Kahlon’s people on condition of anonymity. “He’s acting like he's lost it. It’s hard to believe that we are talking about an experienced diplomat who spent four years as a highly successful ambassador in Washington,” they added.

Oren has become the official re-invigorator of the heated feud between the US administration and Israel in general, and more particularly, between the United States and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In his first article, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Oren claimed that President Barack Obama abandoned Israel and violated two basic principles that have been in place in the US relationship with Israel for a generation: “no daylight” (abstaining from public disagreements) and “no surprises” (regarding changes in policies).