CNN’s Fareed Zakaria issues on-air apology to JCPA head Dore Gold for erroneous report “Facts and the pursuit of truth are important things in the work I do, so it was important that this mistake be corrected,” says the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. Aug. 2, 2021
Will Bennett allow US to roll back recognition of Israel’s capital and redivide Jerusalem? A push to reopen a shuttered consulate to the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem is a first major foreign-policy test for Israel’s fragile coalition. Former Mayor Nir Barkat warns that Israel’s prime minister “must not allow a move that will divide Jerusalem, the capital of Israel forever and ever.” Alex Traiman July 15, 2021
Former ambassador Gold: World powers must work to prevent Iran’s quest for hegemony Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs President Dore Gold says that besides the Iranian nuclear threat, the more probable danger comes from its proxies in the region. Israel Kasnett June 29, 2021
Mideast experts see Trump still committed to confronting Iran, despite conflicting rhetoric “I believe [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump is concerned with Iranian aggression across the Middle East including in Syria,” Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, told JNS. Jackson Richman Jan. 3, 2019
‘Hezbollah invented suicide attacks,’ former Israeli official tells Italian Parliament Members of Italy’s ruling party, the Five Stars Movement, claimed that Hezbollah was “part of the Lebanese people, and therefore, its agents cannot be labeled terrorists.” Eldad Beck Dec. 20, 2018
Italian deputy foreign minister: European attitudes towards Israel are improving Italy mulls opening a permanent mission in Jerusalem in light of the European Union’s ban on member-states relocating their embassies to the city, Italy’s Deputy Foreign Minister Guglielmo Picchi says • We cannot allow “liberal” groups to harm Israeli democracy, he adds. Eldad Beck Nov. 15, 2018
Former Israeli and U.S. top diplomats express admiration, caution on embassy move Longtime Israeli diplomat Dore Gold told JNS: “All I can do is voice my tremendous admiration for the determination of the Trump administration to move forward with moving the embassy.” Israel Kasnett Feb. 26, 2018
Abbas has ‘little to lose’ in sabotaging US-Palestinian relations Deterioration of U.S.-Palestinian relations may be a signal that the Palestinian leader is nearing the end of his political career and has nothing to lose by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Ambassador Dore Gold and Professor Yossi Mekelberg. Israel Kasnett Feb. 11, 2018
