Watching historian Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., skillfully deal with the anti-Israeli hysteria in regard to the Gaza flotilla offers a disturbing contrast with Robert Gibbs, the President’s press secretary. The latter — a second coming of Scott McClellan — obfuscates, becomes petulant when asked now about everything from offering buyouts to Democratic primary candidates to administration lethargy on the oil spill, and in general tries to evade or insult when he has neither the knowledge nor the savvy to answer directly. Oren in a few seconds offers more logic and clarity than Gibbs has in 15 months.