From Deterrence Against Hamas by Dore Gold: When Israel completed its disengagement from Gaza, many assumed that after the withdrawal, Israel would have far greater legitimacy to conduct deterrence operations there if Israeli territory would be attacked in the future. As a result, Israel would be able to create the same sort of deterrence that it had projected along Israel’s northern border...
David and Goliath
Exploding the myth of Palestinian victimhood. An excerpt from David and Goliath, via FrontPage: Simultaneously, the Palestinian psychology of “occupation” continues, as we witnessed after Israel implemented its disengagement plan from Gaza. It was remarkable to see official Palestinian spokesmen make the argument that Gaza disengagement changed very little and that, as far as they are concerned...
Iran Elected to UN Disarmament Commission — 04/17/2006
I really don’t understand how Iran has been elected to a vice-chair position on the U.N. Disarmament Commission, whose mission includes deliberations on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons! Fron CNS: Under threat of United Nations Security Council sanctions for its own nuclear program, Iran has been elected to a vice-chair position on the U.N. Disarmament Commission, whose mission...
Putting “Palestine” on the Map?
From Putting “Palestine” on the Map?: It was bad enough that “Paradise Now” was nominated for an Oscar. But then the official Academy Awards website listed the film’s country of origin as “Palestine.” This sparked protests from Israeli officials since no state of Palestine exists. “Unfortunately, Israel often concedes the struggle over terminology...
Unanswered query to the Israel Minister of Justice
To: Justice Minister Tzippi LivniFrom: David Bedein Bureau Chief Israel Resource News Agency Israel According to the study, , published by the JCPA, the center directed by Ariel Sharon’s Advisor, Dr. Dore Gold, in a study that was issued in cooperation with Ehud Olmert, there are more than 6000 illegal homes built by Arabs in Jerusalem. According to a briefing that was held yesterday at the...
Establishing Defensible Borders for Israel
After the Gaza Disengagement: Establishing Defensible Borders for Israel (American Enterprise Institute) On June 27, 2005, Dr. Dore Gold and Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs unveiled their study of Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Dore Gold: President George W. Bush on April 14, 2004, gave...
Despite Israeli Alerts, UN Transfers Thousands to Hamas Affiliates
Folks, the UN is a human cesspool. Read what the corrupt and dirty men there have done this time: Long after Israel warned of the terror connection, the UN Development Program transferred thousands of dollars to a Palestinian Arab charity affiliated with Hamas though the UN publicly claimed payments to the organization had stopped. The UNDP was headed by Mark Maloch Brown, who has recently been...
What If Bush Invited Sharon and Abu Mazen to Camp David?
Folks, Dr. Dore Gold is one of the greatest writers and defenders of Israel. Dore Gold is President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations (1997-1999), Foreign Policy Advisor to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and advisor to Prime Minster Ariel Sharon. He was involved in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations between 1996 and...
Can the UN Be Redeemed? – Dore Gold
The UN was born in 1945 at a moment of extraordinary moral clarity. To become a founding member, states had to declare war on one of the Axis powers. There was no doubt then that Nazi Germany stood for evil and the Allies for good. But within a few years, UN standards became muddied with the addition of new members, who sought to alter the organization’s ethos to serve their own...
AN ANSWER TO THE NEW ANTI-ZIONISTS: Rights of the Jewish People to a Sovereign State in their Historic Homeland by Dore Gold and Jeff Helmreich
A new critique of Israel proposes its elimination and replacement with a bi-national Palestinian-Jewish state. Israel’s new detractors doubt the legitimacy of Jewish statehood, though they say nothing about the validity of dozens of new states that have emerged in the last half century, many of which lack any firmly rooted national identity. The new attack on Israel’s right to exist...