IRVINE, CA (ANS) -- Dear friends in the broadcast media: I have just done a nearly eight minute fascinating audio interview with Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States. It took place today (Monday, February 8, 2010) at Mariner’s Church in Irvine, California, where he addressed some 200 local pastors and Christian leaders at an event organized by Gen. Shimon Erem, Founder and Chair of the Israel Christian Nexus / The Alliance for Jerusalem and ably assisted by PR specialist, Patricia Johnson head The Johnson Group.

Dan Wooding with Michael Oren

In the interviewed, we talked about why he thought that Evangelicals should support Israel, the thorny topic of Messianic Jews, the “two-state” solution and the safety issue of visiting Israel at this time.

You can download the interview for broadcast at http://www.sendspace.com/file/3gr4tm If you plan to run it, could you just send me a message at danjuma1@aol.com and give your name and the name of your media outlet.

Here’s some background on Mr. Oren:

Michael Oren was appointed Israel’s Ambassador to the United States in May 2009. A noted author, historian and Middle East scholar, Ambassador Oren was born and educated in the U.S., where he became active in Zionist youth movements before moving to Israel in the 1970s. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, in the paratroopers in the Lebanon War, as a liaison with the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the Gulf War, and as an IDF spokesman during the Second Lebanon War and the Gaza Operation in January 2009. He acted as an Israeli Emissary to Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union and as an adviser to Israel’s delegation to the United Nations.

I will also be posting the interview on our website in the next few hours so the rest of you can hear it and I plan to write up a print story.

Blessings!

Dan Wooding
www.assistnews.net

Dan Wooding, 69, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 46 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC., and now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California and which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Wooding also a regular contributor to The Weekend Stand on the Crawford Broadcasting Network, and a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 192 countries. He is the author of some 43 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, also recently released “God’s Ambassadors in Japan” which is available at amazon.com.