S. Rice, UN Ambassador Choice Promoted Baker & Carter      The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized and expressed concern at the news that Samantha Power, the deeply anti-Israel former adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, has been reappointed to his foreign policy team. Power has argued that the US should stop financially […]

  By 58% – 27%, Israelis oppose Golan withdrawal        A poll this week has shown that one-third of the country believes it would be legitimate for soldiers to refuse orders to remove settlements from the Golan Heights. The poll, carried out by Ma’agar Mohot for a conference entitled “War at home? From […]

  NEW YORK – Over 500 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) National Dinner on Sunday, November 24 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Philippe Karsenty, a journalist, deputy mayor of Neuilly, France, and President of Media-Ratings, delivered a major address and was this year’s recipient of the ZOA’s Ben […]

  This negates Dennis Ross’ denial     According to Israeli President and former Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama told him that he was “very impressed” with the Arab League’s 2002 so-called Arab Peace Initiative when the two of them discussed it in July during Senator Obama’s brief visit to Israel. Peres, […]

Yaalon: ‘Land for peace’ policy brings war       The former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief-of-Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya’alon, has stated that the concessionary policy of Israeli territorial withdrawals must stop. Speaking at a press conference with Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu to announce that he was entering political life and joining the Likud party, […]

Only 19% want Israel-Palestinian issue to be an Obama priority      A new poll of American opinion has found that only 6 percent of Americans think that the United States should stand behind the Palestinians in Middle East peace talks, while 66 percent of those polled said the U.S. should support Israel in the […]

 Stop $700 Million-Yr In US Aid To Abbas       New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today strongly praised the 76 members of the US House of Representatives who have co-sponsored the resolution (H.Res.758)  introduced by Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) and U.S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NV), which “urges Palestinian Authority […]

  Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas, often described as a ‘moderate’ and ‘peace maker,’ has delivered a speech in which he rejected major proposed Israeli concessions, including on Jerusalem, and promised not to budge from any of the PA’s demands, while openly praising dead terrorist figures like the PLO’s Khalil Al Wazir (Abu Jihad) […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to President George W. Bush requesting the out-going president to pardon convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. Jonathan Pollard was convicted in 1987 for passing classified information to Israel. He received a life sentence without recommendation for parole, and served seven of the past 23 years in solitary confinement, […]

  Hamas: Obama aides met with us      Robert Malley, an anti-Israel Clinton Administration official who resigned officially from President-elect Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in May due to his on-going meetings with Hamas officials, is still advising the President-elect, contrary to an unequivocal statement by Senator Obama’s spokesman at the time.   A report […]