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Ambassador Dore Gold (* 1953) is a former Israeli diplomat. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting Negotiations between representatives of groups or states He also served as President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs as well as an advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA was founded in 1976 by Professor Daniel J (אריאל

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Early life

Dore Gold was born in 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish home. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism in Israel and Europe) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ His primary education was spent at the Orthodox school The Yeshiva of Hartford. Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized In the 1970s, Gold attended Mount Hermon School (Class of 1971) and then Columbia University where he received a BA from Columbia College in 1975, an MA in Political Science in 1976, and a Certificate of the Middle East Institute in 1978. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH is a ninth-twelfth grade private college preparatory school located near the Connecticut River in the town of Gill, Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. History Columbia College was founded as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England in the Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) In 1980, Gold made aliyah to Israel. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Aliyah ( refers to Jewish Immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment in 1948 the State of Israel) For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics.

In 1984, he received a PhD in Political Science and Middle East Studies from his alma mater. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval He studied literary Arabic and specialized in International Law, and his doctoral dissertation was about Saudi Arabia. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language International law is the term commonly used for referring to the system of implicit and explicit agreements that bind together nation-states in adherence to recognized values and standards The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA ( المملكة العربية السعودية, al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Suʻūdiyya) or Suudi This research later formed the foundation for his 2003 New York Times bestseller, Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism. In the book, Gold argues that the Saudi kingdom actively funds terrorism by supporting the enemies of the U.S. and attacking its allies. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Today, Gold lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Ofra, and his two children, Yael and Ariel.

Career

Dore Gold's political career began in 1985 when Gold served as senior research associate at Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Centre for Near East Studies. Tel Aviv University (TAU אוניברסיטת תל־אביב את"א is Israel 's largest on-site University, located in Tel Aviv. Later, he was appointed Director of the U. S. Foreign and Defense Policy Project at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

In 1991, Gold was an advisor to the Israeli delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference. Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. From June 1996 to June 1997, he served as Foreign Policy Adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (בִּנְיָמִין "ביבי" נְתַנְיָהוּ Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, born October 21 1949, Tel Aviv) was During the period in which Mr. Netanyahu served as the head of the Israeli opposition, Gold was instrumental in forging the relationship between the Likud Party leadership and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in response to the strategic ties that were growing between Israel's Labor government and the PLO under Yasser Arafat. Gold accompanied Netanyahu to meetings with the Jordanian leadership in 1994 and 1995 in London, Amman, and in Aqaba. As the Foreign Policy Adviser under Netanyahu after the 1996 elections, Gold worked with the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan and others in the Arab world. He was also involved in negotiations leading up to the Hebron Agreement and the Note for the Record.

Gold himself has not written about the period in which he served as an envoy to the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world; nonetheless, a number of revelations have been disclosed by other authors. According to Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin (Yasser Arafat: A Political Biography, p. 175), Gold and Netanyahu advisor Yitzhak Molcho were the first envoys of the newly -elected Likud government to meet with Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip on June 27, 1996. Dennis Ross relates to the "Abu-Mazen-Dore Gold" talks that ensued afterwards as a result of which the Palestinians closed down offices in East Jerusalem that Israel had argued were a violation of the Oslo Agreements (The Missing Peace, p. 263). This was the price that Arafat had to pay for his first meeting with Netanyahu. It was a hard concession for the Palestinians, according to Ross, for it was viewed by them as a "symbolic retreat on East Jerusalem. "

On the Syrian negotiating track, former Israeli ambassador to the US, Itamar Rabinovich, describes how he concluded with Gold an understanding over the Monitoring Group for Southern Lebanon, which was followed by a direct discussion between Gold and the Syrian ambassador to the US, Walid Muallam (The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations, p. 234). According to the French journalist, Charles Enderline (Shattered Peace pp. 47-49), Gold secured a commitment from Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the Rabin "deposit" on the future of the Golan Heights did not bind the State of Israel. This effort also included obtaining a new US commitment from the Clinton administration to the September 1975 Ford letter, in which it was stated that the US would give great weight to Israel remaining on the Golan Heights. According to the Israeli Hebrew daily, Maariv (December 31, 1999), Christopher wrote this re-newed commitment in a formal letter of assurances to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 19, 1996. Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)

From 1997 to 1999, Gold was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security In 1998, Gold served as a member of the Israeli delegation at the Wye River negotiations between Israel, the PLO, and then U. S. President Bill Clinton at the Wye River Plantation in Maryland. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States

Since 2000, Gold has served as president of the non-profit institute, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. From 2001 to 2003, Gold served as an advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, most notably at the Aqaba Summit with President George W. Bush. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. During this period, Gold regularly appeared on US network television programs on behalf of the Sharon government, including Meet the Press, The Today Show, CNN's Late Edition, as well as on Fox and Friends. In July of 2003, Gold testified as an expert before the U. S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on Saudi Arabia's alleged role in providing ideological and financial support for international terrorism.

Positions held

Publications

Books

Selected articles

Quotes

"We intend to show that Israel needs a security process as well as a peace process" [1]

"To continue with the old diplomatic approach would be like hammering square pegs into round holes. " [2]

". . . the West's campaign has overlooked a critical component of terrorism -- that is, the precise source of the terror, the ideology that motivates individuals and groups to slaughter thousands of innocent people, and perhaps even to take their own lives. "[3]

"Unfortunately Israel has to lose more innocent civilians to prove to the world the necessity and justice of the fence. "[4]

Reaction and criticism

Harris Schoenberg, Director of UN Affairs for Bnai Brith

"He was forceful, he was eloquent. He was dramatic," said the director of United Nations affairs for Bnai Brith, Harris Schoenberg, on Ambassador Gold's maiden address at the UN (The Forward, July 18, 1997). The Forward, itself, which reported the address, called Gold "a skilled debater. "

A. M. Rosenthal, New York Times

Writing in his weekly column on Israel not belonging to a regional group in the U. N. , New York Times op-ed writer and former editor, A.M. Rosenthal, noted on October 8, 1999: "Dore Gold, leaving soon after a tour of duty as one of the best U. Abraham Michael "AM" Rosenthal (May 2 1922 &ndash May 10 2006 born in Sault Ste N. representatives Israel ever had, points out that membership in regional groups is a requirement for nomination to the Security Council. "

Prince Bandar bin Sultan

In response to Dore Gold's testimony before the U. S. House of Representatives International Relations Subcommittee, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Ambassador to the United States, remarked, "It should be known that Dore Gold is not an expert on Saudi society, faith or culture. He is simply hatred's scribe.

"Dore Gold seeks to instill fear and animosity among friends and allies. While others are working to eliminate incitement and promote peace, Dore Gold works to perpetuate hate and conflict. He has opposed virtually every major peace initiative over the past two decades.

"Dore Gold has carried on a campaign of lies, and unsubstantiated accusations. His goal is to malign the Saudi government and drive a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Ironically, this is the very same objective shared by Osama bin Laden. " [5]

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Preceded by
Gad Yaacobi		 Israeli Ambassador to the UN
1996-1999		 Succeeded by
Yehuda Lancry
Hasbara (הסברה also spelt Hasbarah) is a Hebrew noun that literally means "explanation" NGO Monitor ( Non-governmental Organization Monitor) is a Non-governmental organization based in Jerusalem whose stated objective is to "end to Gad Yaacobi (גד יעקבי 18 January 1935 – 27 August 2007 was an Israeli Minister, Alignment Knesset member and Israel Ambassador Israel Ambassador to the United Nations, full title Representative of Israel to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary
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