State Dept: These are legitimate concerns New York — Representatives Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-FL), its ranking member; Gary Ackerman (D-NY), chairman of its Middle East subcommittee; and Mike Pence (R-IN), the subcommittee’s ranking member, have written to the Bush Administration urging it to reconsider the […]

Washington — Members of Congress expressed outrage this week after a report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) and subsequent press coverage in the Washington Times, revealed that in the past several years Al-Quds University and the Hamas-controlled Islamic University, both Palestinian education institutions receiving US financial aid, have participated in the advocacy, support and glorification […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly disagrees with the recent comments made by former Middle East advisor and U.S. ambassador to Israel in the Clinton Administration, Martin Indyk, who wrongly depicted Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas as a moderate and peace-maker who has met his obligations for peace with Israel. […]

The Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and former Middle East advisor and U.S. ambassador to Israel in the Clinton Administration, Martin Indyk, has wrongly claimed that Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas has ended incitement to hatred and murder of Israelis in the PA media and progressed […]

New York — More disturbing information on the Mecca agreement between Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah and Hamas on forming a PA unity government has emerged in recent days. The terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command (PFLP-GC) has also joined the government, its spokesman saying it did so, […]

“Synagogue is symbol of occupation and injustice” New York — A Palestinian Arab terrorist group launching attacks upon Israel from Gaza has converted into bases for their attacks two of the large synagogues in evacuated Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip. Israel withdrew all military and civilians living in Gaza in September 2005, leaving behind […]

New York — The Israeli Foreign Ministry website has produced a memorial page in memory of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but has conspicuously omitted providing a link to the text of his last speech to the Knesset, one month prior to his assassination, in which he repudiated creating a fully sovereign Palestinian state and […]

New York — The Israeli Foreign Ministry website has produced a memorial page in memory of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but has conspicuously omitted providing a link to the text of his last speech to the Knesset, one month prior to his assassination, in which he repudiated creating a fully sovereign Palestinian state and […]

New York — The Israeli Foreign Ministry website has produced a memorial page in memory of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but has conspicuously omitted providing a link to the text of his last speech to the Knesset, one month prior to his assassination, in which he repudiated creating a fully sovereign Palestinian state and […]

New York — Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas stated today that “We remain committed to the two-state solution, the recognition of Israel, renouncing violence and terror” and to adhere to existing agreements between Israel and the Palestinians ( Jerusalem Post, February 23). In fact, Abbas himself has stated that none of the Palestinian terrorist […]