Dore Gold
Dore Gold
Dore Goldis an Israeli diplomat who has served in various positions under several Israeli governments. He is the current President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was also an advisor to the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first term in office. In May 2015, Netanyahu named him Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
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Prime Minister Sharon has been absolutely clear about his goals. He wants to reach limited arrangements, pragmatic arrangements with the Palestinian Authority, but there cannot be peace with terrorism.
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Right now, Israelis want a security process rather than a peace process.
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Unless the green light is turned into a red light, unless there's a clear message (from) Mr. Arafat to stop terrorism, there can't be any peace process.
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We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.
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We are giving one more chance for peace at present by seeing whether Mr. Arafat will follow through his cease-fire commitment,
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I think Israelis felt that by completing the withdrawal from Gaza, they had created an opportunity for peace for the Palestinians to seize upon. And what they saw was synagogues in flames, and that's something with a very ominous tone for the success of any future negotiations.
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When Israel announced its operation, it said it was a limited operation. It did not announce it was reoccupying parts of the Gaza Strip from which it had withdrawn,
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The security meetings were good, but it's clearly not enough. What's important is what happens on the ground, and what's happening on the ground is continuous violence against Israeli civilians.
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The strongest images were those of the settlers and soldiers embracing and crying together,
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Israel is left with no choice but to thwart such attacks in order to protect its civilians and keep its population safe,
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We now need a detailed security plan from the Palestinians,
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The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.
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Setting them on fire isn't a way of creating a new environment for a hopeful future.
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Much of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship is classified, particularly in the area of intelligence sharing. There are two direct consequences from this situation. First, most aspects of U.S.-Israel defense ties are decided on the basis of the professional security considerations of those involved. Lobbying efforts in Congress cannot force a U.S. security agency to work with Israel.