'A tectonic shift, not a tectonic rift'

For what it's worth, Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, continues to try to backtrack from comments attributed to him in the Hebrew press on Sunday and in the English press on Monday, which characterized Israel's relations with the United States as being in a 'tectonic rift.' Here are remarks he made to the JPost editorial staff. Here is a direct transcript of what Oren told