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Biden Should Choose a Secretary of State Who Understands Why Previous Peace Efforts Failed
(Haaretz) Allison Kaplan Sommer - Dore Gold, former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and currently president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, who has described Joe Biden as being "fundamentally friendly to Israel," urged the incoming administration to choose a secretary of state with hands-on experience of previous Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. An outside candidate unfamiliar with the details of why those efforts hit a brick wall, Gold said, would come in with incorrect assumptions. "It must be recalled that the last round of negotiations in 2014 ended with [Palestinian President] Abbas telling President Obama, 'I'll get back to you,' and he never did. There are those who want to put the entire blame for the stalled peace process on Israel, even though it's factually wrong," Gold said.