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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Setting them on fire isn't a way of creating a new environment for a hopeful future.
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I think today's the day of tremendous national anguish. Many people thought this whole process would polarize Israeli society because that seemed to be the environment here leading up to the national disengagement effort.
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Right now the evidence is not very promising.
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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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The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.
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We came here in order to listen, and also to let our friends in the administration hear our views and I think we started on the right foot.
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We pay very close attention to statements made by the United States and they're very important to us.
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The real question is not just a political science question of how many ministers there are. The real question is whether Mr. Arafat will abandon violence, and that can only be seen on the ground.
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The parties reiterated their commitment to Oslo and its implementation.
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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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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've got information about who's backing bin Laden and, in a lot of cases, it goes back to the royal family.
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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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There are no quick solutions. This is not armored warfare in the Sinai, where you encircle divisions of the other side and end it in six days. But with determination and perseverance, Israel will win this struggle.