Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.N., has a new book out — The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West. He spoke to a few journalists last night at a private dinner. “Engagement with Iran is not working,” he said. “What’s Plan B for the West?” He warns that relying on deterrent power, as if this were the Cold War, “is a disaster for the world.” He does not believe that an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel is imminent: “The most likely scenario is that Iran provides a nuclear umbrella to global Islamic terrorism. Can NATO retaliate against a nuclear Iran the way it did against the Taliban in Afghanistan?” He criticized American liberals for not taking the threat of Iran seriously, and said that conservatives aren’t taking it seriously enough either. “You can watch Fox News all day and never see a discussion of Iran,” he said. As for the mood of Israelis today: “We’re feeling very much alone.”