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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.

According to Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Gold and Netanyahu advisor Yitzhak Molcho were the first envoys of the newly-elected Likud government to meet with Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip on June 27, 1996.

Dennis Ross relates to the " Abu-Mazen-Dore Gold " talks that ensued afterwards as a result of which the Palestinians closed down offices in East Jerusalem that Israel had argued were a violation of the Oslo Accords.

This was the price that Arafat had to pay for his first meeting with Netanyahu.

It was a hard concession for the Palestinians, according to Ross, for it was viewed by them as a " symbolic retreat on East Jerusalem.