US Government Should Not "Get Tough" on Israel - Dore Gold at The Doha Debates

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Dore Gold, appeared on the Doha Debates, hosted at Georgetown University. The subject of the debates was Should the United States get tough on Israel? Dr. Gold argues that no; an Israeli-Arab peace must come from within Israel and its Arab neighbors and not from outside pressure. Furthermore, a peace agreement will not resolve United States' foreign policy threats such as al-Qaeda.
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A Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations: Have We Been Here Before?
By Dore Gold

-As a result of the June 1967 Six-Day War, Israel entered the eastern parts of Jerusalem and the West Bank in a war of self-defense. It is very important to recall that Israel entered these areas after it was attacked, and after it requested that the Jordanians not join the Egyptian war effort. There were Jordanian artillery attacks throughout Jerusalem and all of Israel, as well as movement of Jordanian ground forces into areas that were previously no-man's land.
-There is presently a marked shift underway in U.S. policy on Jerusalem. True, no U.S. administration accepted Israel's annexation of Jerusalem in July 1967. Nonetheless, in the past we saw the U.S. and Israel coming to a modus vivendi with respect to Israeli policy in Jerusalem, when Israel built various neighborhoods in the eastern parts of the city, from Ramat Eshkol to Gilo to Ramot.
-A neighborhood called Har Homa in southeastern Jerusalem was established in 1997 during the Clinton administration to ease the considerable shortage of housing in the Jewish sector. On two occasions, the Arab bloc initiated a draft resolution in the UN Security Council to condemn Israel for constructing Har Homa. On both occasions, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson, vetoed those resolutions under instructions from the Clinton administration.
-The Oslo Agreements in 1993 do not require a freeze on construction in the neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Furthermore, under the Oslo Agreements, Jerusalem was treated as having a completely different status than the West Bank and the city was kept under Israeli control, while seen as an issue for permanent status negotiations in the future.
-It is possible to discern a growing view, which has been reported in the Washington Post, that the Obama administration intends to put on the table its own plan for Middle East peace, based on a nearly full Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines, that most Israeli planners view as militarily indefensible. As the Palestinians see this scenario unfold, their incentive to re-enter negotiations will decline as they look forward to the prospect that an American peace plan will be imposed. If indeed there is such a plan being prepared, then the recent U.S.-Israel tensions over construction in east Jerusalem may only be Act I in a much longer drama that the two countries are about to face.
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[abbienetvision]

Israel has tried to do everything to live in peace with the Palestinians, even giving the Palis land and expelling Jews from Gaza.

The result of trying to get peace with Palestinians has been returned with more violence and terrorism or rocket fire.

The way to peace is not through one sided Israeli concessions. It has been tried time and time again and failed!

[Jewishfan]

Bush Jr., Clinton, Bush Sr., Carter did the same thing as Obama doing now, harming Israel. But current president doing it more openly than his predecessors.

[finnenvenn]

God bless Israel and the jewish people. Psalm25:22Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

[TheTruthBureau]

Blahhhh , Blahhhh, ..If you say so buddy, "Nothing to do with Israel" Best statement yet. whatever make you sleep at night ..Do these people expect us to take them seriously when they ask and Israeli to come and tells us to take it easy in Israel. Waw...I thought I have seen it all.

[IsraelGudsAugestein]

I think Obama has a messianic ego. He want two bring peace to the World. And he has idea, that Israel (the Jews) is a problem for world peace. And I think Obama want to be popular with EU, Russia and the Islamic world. And the best way to do that is to press Zionist Israel.

I don`t say Obama is anti-Semitic (his pastor was anti-Semitic). But Obama is playing with dangerous anti-Semitic forces.

[IsraelGudsAugestein]

Obama has declare war on Israel.