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Israel Should Not Pay the Price for Iraq

March 31, 2003 | Amb. Dore Gold

Tony Blair's approach to Iraq is perhaps most admired because of the tremendous sense of conviction and justice motivating his position. For that reason, the British prime minister's repeated need to refer in the same breath as Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and especially the diplomatic "road map" for resolving this conflict, is perplexing.

Only Buffer Zones Can Protect Israel

February 27, 2002 | Amb. Dore Gold

JERUSALEM -- It is doubtful that another case can be found in recent history of a nation that has been willing to take greater risks for peace than has Israel. Eight years ago, Israel embarked on a diplomatic experiment by agreeing to grant authority to the Palestine Liberation Organization, an organization whose founding charter called for Israel's annihilation, and to its leader, Yasir Arafat, in the disputed territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Cease-Fire That Never Was

November 3, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

During Yasser Arafat's war against the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the early 1970s, the PLO was known to have reached 22 cease-fire agreements, each of which it subsequently broke. The understandings reached two nights ago between Regional Cooperation Minister Shimon Peres and Arafat were not even a formal cease-fire, but only an agreement for the reduction of violence. Yet it should not have come as a surprise that even this less ambitious agreement would fail.

A New Diplomacy . . .

October 17, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

The Palestinian Provocation

October 3, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

An Israeli Jerusalem for All

September 1, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

Why Camp David II Failed

July 27, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

What Happened to Secure Borders for Israel? The U.S., Israel, and the Strategic Jordan Valley

June 23, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

Reshuffled Deck on Syrian-Israeli Negotiations

June 12, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold

No Security, No Peace

March 29, 1997 | Amb. Dore Gold

Israel and the PLO Now Struggle for Leverage

September 16, 1993 | Amb. Dore Gold