New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has protested the Israeli government’s continuing failure to protect priceless antiquities beneath Jerusalem’s Temple Mount from being destroyed by the Waqf, the Muslim religious authority controlling the site. The Waqf was allowed by Israel to retain control of the site after Israel reunited eastern Jerusalem with […]

ZOA: Bush learned littlefrom Oslo disaster ZOA President Morton A. Klein said, “The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized President George W. Bush’s speech yesterday for making the same mistakes as President Clinton and the late Prime Minister Rabin made when they promoted the false premise that Yasser Arafat was a moderate peacemaker who […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to a number of substantial factual mistakes regarding the Arab war on Israel contained in the New York Times’ Magazine guest columnist Roger Cohen’s profile of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ( New York Times, July 8). In his article, Cohen claims the following: “Livni brought out […]

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 […]