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| November 12, 2017
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Dore Gold tells US Congress: Palestinian have consistently destroyed Jewish historical sites

Testifying before the US congress, Israel’s former U.N. ambassador details the historic failures of the UN & Palestinians in protecting religious sites in Jerusalem, and pointed out “arrangements for the holy city that plainly have not worked in the past, will undoubtedly fail in the future… Only a free and democratic Israel will protect Jerusalem for all the great faiths.”

By Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Dr. Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and former Israeli ambassador the United Nations, addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security on Wednesday under the title of “Moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem: Challenges and Opportunities.” Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2017
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Dore Gold: UNRWA “perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem rather than solves it.”

 

More than any other issue, leaving the UNRWA problem intact for yet another generation of refugees undermines any possibility of reaching reconciliation between the parties. You cannot resolve a conflict while feeding UNRWA to perpetuate it at the same time.

COMMENT: UNTYING THE GORDIAN KNOT OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT – BY DORE GOLD

 

Last July, the Middle East Quartet was groping to find an explanation for why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had not yet been resolved.

Ann Dismorr, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, with a map that shows all of Israel as “Palestine”.- Photo: Palestinian Media Watch.

Israel, which had gone through an escalation of knifing attacks on its citizens rightfully stressed in its briefings the twin problems of continuing Palestinian violence and the state-sponsored incitement that promoted it. Continue Reading »

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| April 30, 2014
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China seeks to publish Dore Gold’s book on Israel’s legal rights to a unified Jerusalem

 

PM Natanyahu’s adviser, Dore Gold’s best-selling book, “The Fight for Jerusalem,” details Israel’s historical links & legal rights to a unified Jerusalem, is being translated to Chinese.

By Shlomo Cesana

 

A book on Jerusalem by Dore Gold, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is being published in Chinese and will soon hit the shelves in Beijing.

Dore Gold, adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the Chinese edition of his book – Photo: Yonatan Zindel

“The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City” explains Israel’s historical links and legal rights to Jerusalem, and emphasizes the need to keep the city united and under Israeli sovereignty.

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| February 8, 2013
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Dore Gold’s Lessons from the Eisenhower debate

According to former President Nixon, Eisenhower said that the Suez Crisis was the biggest foreign-policy “blunder” of his administration. There is substantial evidence that Eisenhower came to renounce his own Suez policy.

 

By Dore Gold

Israel should stay clear of the internal American debate over the candidacy of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be the next defense secretary. The identity of the defense secretary can have profound implications for Israel, but this is an internal American decision. At the same time, it is impossible to ignore one aspect of this issue which touches on the history of U.S.-Israel relations. Recently, David Ignatius, one of the leading columnists of The Washington Post tried to compare Hagel’s worldview to that of President Dwight Eisenhower, who had to contend with the joint operation of Britain, France, and Israel against Nasser’s Egypt.

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| January 18, 2013
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Dore Gold: A code of conduct is nessecery for the Middle East

 

A code of conduct or a set of rules would either promote a real peace process or provide a clear measure for indicating that the Palestinian leadership continues to violate commitments. Issues must be addressed: incitement to violence, providing sanctuary to terrorist organizations, or halting hostile initiatives in int’l bodies such as the U.N.

By Dore Gold

In 1996, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan convened an international forum at the Hashimiyya Palace in Amman with guests from the entire Middle East as well as noted statesmen from outside the region. As a newly appointed foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I found myself invited to one of these events.

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| October 6, 2012
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Dore Gold: Iran & its Nuclear Deception

Khomeini’s ideological legacy for the Islamic republic is to protect its nuclear program. He knew that Iran’s use of lies in its diplomacy in the past had been effective. One of the problems with Iran’s use of deception is that the West refuse to accept that they’ve been duped.

By Dore Gold

In a rare admission two weeks ago, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Fereydoon Abbasi, was quoted in al-Hayat saying the Iranian government had provided false information in the past to protect its nuclear program. Abbasi accused Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI-6, of spying on Iran to justify the fact that it had decided to lie to the international community.

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| September 29, 2012
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Dore Gold: The Palestinians’ dubious UN move

Abbas is hoping for upgrade at the UNGA that would grant the PA standing at the ICC. That would be a double-edged sword for the PA because they then  assume legal responsibility for Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, which are war-crimes.

By Dore Gold

PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has again declared his intention to carry out his plan to gain U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state with the opening of the U.N. General Assembly this past week. However, it is not entirely clear how the Palestinians will execute their plan this year, after last year’s effort to gain U.N. membership failed in the U.N.

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| September 15, 2012
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Dore Gold on Jerusalem and US politics

Jerusalem had a profound influence on Carter’s re-election campaign: On March 1, 1980, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 465, which also called for dismantling Jewish neighborhoods that had been built in Jerusalem. Carter lost the Jewish vote.

One of the strangest episodes at the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, was the controversy that erupted over how Jerusalem would appear in the party’s platform. Unlike the Democratic party platform in the last three presidential elections, the platform initially this year dropped any reference to Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. New York Senator Charles Schumer said that it was a mistake to take Jerusalem out of the platform.

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| August 25, 2012
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Dore Gold asks, “Where will Morsi’s embrace of Ahmadinejad lead?”

If Morsi wants to build a relationship with Iran, he will face problems with Riyadh, to whom he has recently turned for financial help.

By Dore Gold

After Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi embraced Iranian President Muhammad Ahmadinejad at the summit of the Organization of Islamic States Saudi Arabia, sources in the office of the Egyptian presidency announced that Morsi was planning to visit Tehran for the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at the end of August. The NAM grouping of mostly Third World countries was first established in 1961 as a neutral alternative to the West and the Soviet bloc.

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| August 10, 2012
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Dore Gold’s analysis : Meanwhile, in Jordan…

King Abdullah has to juggle between the Jordanian Bedouin who feel economically deprived and the Palestinians who want more political power.

By Dore Gold

International attention over the Arab uprisings has been naturally drawn in recent weeks to Egypt and especially Syria. Yet, Jordan is clearly the Arab state whose internal stability affects Israel’s security most directly. From a purely geographic standpoint, Israel’s border with Jordan is its longest international boundary. King Abdullah has managed to assure his kingdom’s security and avoid the kind of internal disruptions that have afflicted most of his neighbors though he had to deal with a wave of protests in the spring of 2011.

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| July 23, 2012
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Dr. Dore Gold: The Political Battle Over “Occupation” Narrative

Edmond Levy’s committee has restored Israel’s legal narrative about its rights in Judea and Samaria. There is a huge difference in how a compromise will look if Israel comes to the table as “foreign occupiers,” or as a party that has just territorial claims.

By Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold

 

In January 2012, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yaakov Neeman, the justice minister, turned to former Israeli supreme court justice Edmond Levy to head a panel of legal experts that would look into questions of land ownership in the “West Bank” (biblical Judea and Samaria, located west of the Jordan River, ed). Continue Reading »

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| June 8, 2012
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Dore Gold: Why the Six-Day War still matters

 

Forty-five years ago this week, the Israel Defense Forces liberated the Old City of Jerusalem and re-united Israel’s capital. Today, most of the battles that took place back then are almost a distant memory. Few recall that on the eve of the Six-Day War most of the brigades of Jordanian Army were deployed right next to the Green Line and encircled Jerusalem on three sides. Moreover, an Iraqi expeditionary force was poised to join them across the Jordan River. When the Jordanian artillery opened fire, nearly 6,000 artillery shells fell on Jewish neighborhoods in the western side of Jerusalem, leaving 1,000 Israelis wounded.

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| July 29, 2012
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Goldwasser’s widow: ‘May Nasrallah Never See the Light of Day’

Karnit Goldwasser, widow of Ehud Goldwasser who was kidnapped & murdered by Hizbullah terrorists, attacks the terror group.

By Elad Benari

 

Karnit Goldwasser, whose husband Ehud was kidnapped and murdered by Hizbullah terrorists in 2006, attacked the terror group and the European Union after a Lebanese television station showed a video which documents the Hizbullah squad as it attacked her husband’s jeep.

“This is another manipulation by [Hizbullah head] Nasrallah,” Goldwasser said in an interview on Channel 2 News on Saturday evening. “The first manipulation was when he kidnapped our loved ones for vile purposes. That’s the difference between human beings and those who say they are human beings. Continue Reading »

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| May 6, 2012
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Israeli rower won gold — and sang “Hatikvah” on her own

Organizers of a rowing competition for the disabled in Italy apparently didn’t take into consideration the possibility that the Israeli contender, Moran Samuel, would win the competition.

Update: some of the comments to this video mentioned a version of Hatikvah, by Enrico Macias. The first approximately 30 seconds in that version are not part of Israel’s official anthem, Hatikvah.

The official anthem, used by all official Israeli institutions (the President, Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs etc.) and in every official ceremony, should have been in the hands of the Italian organizers. Unfortunately, unlike the Olympic games organizers, the Italian organizers didn’t have it. Continue Reading »

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| December 16, 2019
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Israel’s pavilion at 2020 Expo in Dubai seen as gateway into Arab world

Foreign affairs expert say, while obviously still concerned about the Palestinian issue, Israel’s invitation to participate at the 2020 trade fair in Dubai is demonstrative in being accepted as an integral, strategic player in the mid-East.

By AFP

 

With the world’s largest trade fair opening in an Arab country for the first time next year, Israel is stepping up preparations, hoping to boost nascent ties with regional neighbors.

The Dubai Expo 2020 trade fair will gather nearly 200 countries vying for the attention of a projected 25 million visitors over nearly six months from October.

Skyline of Downtown Dubai with Burj Khalifa from a Helicopter.

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