Dore Gold is an Israeli diplomat, foreign policy analyst, and former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations. He served as president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and was a close adviser to several Israeli prime ministers. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard analyzing Israeli-Palestinian territorial disputes and the politics of the occupation narrative.
In January 2012, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yaakov Neeman, the justice minister, turned to former Israeli supreme court justice Edmond Levy to head a panel of legal experts that would look into questions of land ownership in the West Bank. The initiative came about when it was…
When President Barak Obama first made his controversial reference to the 1967 lines as the basis for future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on May 19, 2011, he introduced one main caveat that stuck out: the idea that there would be "mutually agreed swaps" of land between the two sides. He added…