TIMES OF ISRAEL
by AFP
June 1, 2015

A long-time foreign policy adviser of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rules out the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas as a potential peace partner for Israel. “There is no question that Hamas is part of the jihadist universe,” says Dore Gold, the incoming director general of the Foreign Ministry and former ambassador to the United Nations. “It is not a candidate to become a political partner,” he tells journalists as his think-tank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, unveils a study of the 2014 war in Gaza, where Hamas is the de facto power. Gold was named to the Foreign Ministry post last week by Netanyahu, who has retained the ministerial portfolio himself. READ MORE