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Dov Weissglass

Dov Weissglass is an Israeli lawyer and business man who has been closely linked with the "Middle East peace process", particularly under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.[1] As Sharon's office manager/bureau chief, he was the public face for Sharon during the 2004 withdrawal negotiations and the diplomatic delegate for negotiating with U.S. National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Weissglass' business firm, Weissglass-Almagor, invests heavily in both Israeli and Palestinian industry.

He has attracted criticism from the Israeli Left for many of his statements. In 2004 he remarked "The disengagement [strategy with Palestinian government] is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that's necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians."

In reference to the Gaza blockade he is said to have remarked "we have put them [i.e. Gazans] on a diet."

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Mon. May 14, 2012

Ariel (Sharon), We Hardly Knew Ye

Huffington Post (blog)
April 8, 2012

What is not known generally outside Israel is that Ariel Sharon, who as Prime Minister in 2004-2005 orchestrated Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, was planning to follow up with a third unilateral withdrawal, this time from the ...

Dov Weissglass to negotiate Palestinian Tamar gas purchases

Globes
March 22, 2012

Dov Weissglass is in talks to represent Palestine Power Generating Company to buy gas from Tamar. Sources inform ''Globes'' that, Adv.

Migron Is Symbol of Broken Promise

Forward
March 18, 2012

Israel rejects this view but does consider one group of settlements illegal under its own laws. Yet, less than a handful of these unauthorized outposts have been evacuated since June 2004, when then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised ...

Citypass to complete Jerusalem light rail improvements

Globes
March 14, 2012

Arbitrators Judge (emeritus) Boaz Okun and Adv. Dov Weissglass have announced that they will separate the discussion on completing the project from the financial demand proceedings.

Citypass to complete Jerusalem light rail improvements

Globes
March 14, 2012

Arbitrators Judge (emeritus) Boaz Okun and Adv. Dov Weissglass have announced that they will separate the discussion on completing the project from the financial demand proceedings.

Condoleezza Rice bluste branden

Reformatorisch Dagblad
March 10, 2012

Rice was verbaasd toen Sharons afgezant Dov Weisglass haar vertelde dat Sharon een eenzijdige terugtrekking uit de Gazastrook wilde. Sharons doel was de minderheid te isoleren die tegen een tweestatenoplossing was en de Palestijnen een kans te geven de ...

Hurting, Hanging, Suffocating & Starving:

CASMII
March 5, 2012

... a devastating economic siege was imposed on the 1.5 million residents of Gaza by Israel as punishment for the crime of Palestinian self-determination.

Israel's new peace camp is playing straight into Hamas' hands

Haaretz
February 12, 2012

And the Palestinians, like all of us, learned from Dov Weisglass, who was Sharon's right-hand man, that disengagement from Gaza was only intended to serve as formaldehyde, to stop the "really big withdrawal" (interview with Shavit, October 8, 2004 ).

Lifting the Gaza Blockade: A US Imperative

World Press Review
December 18, 2011

Dov Weisglass, advisor to then-Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert, said that the ultimate objective of Israel's strategy is "to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger." The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is inflicted not only ...