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Early life

Dore Gold was born in 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish home. His primary education was spent at the Orthodox school The Yeshiva of Hartford . 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 in Middle East Studies in 1978. In 1980, Gold emigrated to Israel (aliyah). 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Conservative Judaism, (also known as Masorti Judaism in Israel predominantly), is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... 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 Talmudic texts (The Oral Law) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ... Template:A year The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Northfield Mount Hermon School Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) is a ninth-twelfth grade private college-preparatory high school (secondary school) located in Gill, Massachusetts, U.S.A. // The school was originally founded by famed Protestant evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (DLM) as two separate institutions: The Northfield Seminary for Young... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Columbia College is the main undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the universitys main campus of Morningside Heights in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Political science is the field of the social sciences concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Aliyah (Hebrew: עלייה, ascent or going up) is a term widely used to mean Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel). ...

In 1984, he received a PhD in Political Science and Middle East Studies from his alma mater. He studied literary Arabic and specialized in International Law, and his doctoral dissertation was about Saudi Arabia. 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. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Political science is the field of the social sciences concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... Alma mater is Latin for nourishing mother. It was used in ancient Rome as a title for the mother goddess, and in Medieval Christianity for the Virgin Mary. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

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. 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. The Engineering Faculty Boulevard The Smolarz Auditorium Tel Aviv University (TAU, אוניברסיטת תל אביב, אתא) is one of Israels major universities. ...

In 1991, Gold was an advisor to the Israeli delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference. From June 1996 to June 1997, he served as Foreign Policy Adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 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. Motto: De Madrid al Cielo (From Madrid to Heaven) Location Coordinates: Country Spain Autonomous Community Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Province Madrid Administrative Divisions 21 Neighborhoods 127 Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón (PP) Area  - Land 607 km² (234. ...   (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ (without niqqud: בנימין נתניהו), Hebrew transliteration written in English: Binyamin Netanyahu, nicknamed Bibi) (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is a leading figure in the Likud party. ...

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. Dennis Ross relates to the "Abu-Mazen-Dore Gold" talks in 1996 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 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, 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.

From 1997 to 1999, Gold was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. 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. The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

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. 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. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Positions held

• 1985-1996 - Senior research associate, Dayan Centre for Near East Studies. Director, US Foreign and Defense Policy Project at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
• 1991 - Advisor, Madrid Peace Conference.
• 1996-1997 - Foreign policy advisor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
• 1997-1999 - Israeli ambassador, United Nations
• 1998 - Israeli delegation, Wye River negotiations
• 2000 - Present - President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
• 2002-2004 - Advisor, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

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Publications

Books

• The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City (ISBN: 0786147849 / Publisher: Regnery, Blackstone Audiobooks / Date: Jan 2007)
• Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos (Crown Forum, November, 2004). ISBN 1-4000-5475-3
• Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism (Regnery, 2003). ISBN 0-89526-135-9
• American Military Strategy in the Middle East: The Implications of the US Regional Command Structure (CENTCOM) For Israel (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publications), 1993.
• Israel as an American Non-NATO Ally: Parameters of Defense and Industrial Cooperation (Boulder: Westview Press), 1992.

Selected articles

• Wartime Witch Hunt: Blaming Israel for the Iraq War. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. June 1, 2004.
• Saudi Arabia's Dubious Denials of Involvement in International Terrorism. Jerusalem Viewpoints. Oct 1, 2003.
• Saudi Support for International Terrorism. U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. July 31, 2003.
• The Kingdom of Incitement. Wall Street Journal. April 14, 2003.
• Only Buffer Zones Can Protect Israel. The New York Times. Feb 27, 2002.

Quotes

"...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."[1]

"Unfortunately Israel has to lose more innocent civilians to prove to the world the necessity and justice of the fence."[2]

Comment 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.N. representatives Israel ever had, points out that membership in regional groups is a requirement for nomination to the Security Council." Abraham Michael A.M. Rosenthal (May 2, 1922 – May 10, 2006), born in Sault Ste. ...

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." [3]

See also

• Israeli-Arab conflict
• Hasbara
• NGO Monitor

Israel and the Arab League states The Arab-Israeli conflict is a long-running conflict in the Middle East regarding the existence of the state of Israel and its relations with non-Jews, most of whom are Arabs, of which a small minority are inhabitants of Israel, the rest living... Hasbara (הסברה) (or hasbarah) is the Hebrew noun for the action of explaining. The word is used to public relations efforts by the jewish comunity to explain itself and its interests to the wider public. ... NGO Monitor (Non-governmental organization monitor) is a project with the stated aim of monitoring non-governmental organizations operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. ...

External links

• Biography of Dore Gold from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
• Biography of Dore Gold from the Jewish Virtual Library
• Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
• Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
• Middle East Institute
• Jewish & Palestine Activists Disrupt Speech by Former Israeli Ambassador
• Does Saudi Arabia Preach Intolerance and Hatred in the UK and US?
• Prince Bandar responds to remarks by former Israeli official (Saudi Arabia Embassy press release)