New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is opposing the decision yesterday of the Ehud Olmert’s government to release 250 Palestinian Arab prisoners belonging to Fatah, the terrorist group co-founded by Yasser Arafat and Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas. The Olmert government says that those being released will be members of Fatah […]

Israeli concessions will increase danger The former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon, has said that the concept of land for peace has proven a failure in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that any future IDF withdrawal from the West Bank will create a second “Hamastan” which would threaten both Israel and […]

New York – A new poll has shown that only a small minority of Israelis — 13% — still believe that Israel was the victor in last year’s war in Lebanon against the Islamist terrorist group, Hizballah. According to the poll carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute (headed by Professor Yitzchak Katz for Israel […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has stated in the wake of the attempted multiple terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, that Islamist ideology, not poverty, produced the terrorists involved. The terrorists had attempted to crash vehicles into the Glasgow airport terminal, an area crowded with travelers, with the aim of murdering as many of […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at the news that just-retired British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been appointed Middle East envoy by the Middle East ‘Quartet’ ( United States, European Union, United Nations, Russia). Tony Blair has stated that he views the Arab-Israeli issue as the primary reason […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the plan announced by the Israeli government of Ehud Olmert to release as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas 250 Palestinian Arab prisoners. Prime Minister Olmert announced the intended release during a joint press conference with Abbas held at Sharm […]

New York – Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas, in a speech denouncing the murder and violence committed by Hamas forces in their take-over of Gaza, stated that Hamas had looted and set on fire a church which was older than the Palestinian Arab presence in the Holy Land, thereby admitting that Palestinian Arabs are […]

New York – Almost 300 (including 35 students), Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) activists from 19 states, including California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia, took part in ZOA’s annual activist Mission to Washington on June 19 — 20 to urge Members of Congress to oppose funding and concessions […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is opposing any Israeli and American support for Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah terrorist group. ( Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2007). Mahmoud Abbas in his own words: On recognizing Israel:” It is not required of Hamas, or of Fatah, or of the Popular Front to recognize Israel” […]

During the current fighting for dominance between Hamas and Fatah forces in Gaza, Hamas forces have seized the previously Fatah-controlled Preventive Security Service headquarters in Gaza. Hamas television broadcasts from inside building displayed Israeli weapons previously transferred by Israel to Fatah as part of efforts to bolster Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas and his […]