New York — The former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief-of-Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon, and the former Director of the CIA under President Clinton, R. James Woolsey, have both spoken out arguing that creating a Palestinian state is a mistake, saying such an outcome is not the answer to Israel’s current problems with the Palestinian Arabs. […]

New York – A high-ranking Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer has disclosed that the Israeli government has “tied the IDF’s hands” and is preventing military operations that could stop Hizballah from rearming and gaining strength ahead of a possible new round of violence this summer. The officer said that, “This is not up to the […]

Philadelphia Jewish ExponentJanuary 18, 2007 Morton A. Klein Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — labeled as a “moderate” by both Washington and the media — spoke last week to a rally of Fatah supporters in Ramallah. His message was for Palestinians to stop killing each other. But rather than merely call for communal peace, he […]

New York — Dr. Dan Shueftan, the deputy director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, has stated that a recent document produced by Israeli Arab leaders and which represents the consensus of Israeli Arabs, shows that Israeli Arabs seek “nothing short of the destruction of [the] Jewish national state.” Addressing […]

WASHINGTON — On January 9th, 2007, Congressman Steven Rothman (D-NJ) and Congressman Mark Kirk (R-IL) introduced House Concurrent Resolution 21, (H.Con.Res.) “calling on the United Nations Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the United Nations Charter because […]

Olmert cancels community in Yesha for Gaza Jews New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has opposed the payment of $100 million to Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) announced today by the Israeli government of Ehud Olmert. Simultaneously, Israel announced that the construction of an approved Jewish community at Maskiot, which was to […]

U.S. Sen. Specter & Major Jewish Umbrella Group Criticize Abbas New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Sec’y of State Condoleezza Rice for strongly praising Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas days after Abbas addressed a huge rally of his Fatah supporters in Ramallah, urging them to stop killing each other […]

New York – A new survey has found that Israeli Arab support for Israel is low and has dropped significantly since last year’s Lebanon war. The survey, conducted by Prof. Ephraim Yaar, Head of the Evens Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution at Tel Aviv University, and Efrat Peleg, showed that Israeli Arabs respondents rated […]

ZOA asks Brandeis to cancel Carter invitation New York — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in his new book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid , “flatly condones mass-murder” of Israeli Jews by Palestinian Arab terrorists, in the words of the New York Post editorial (January 15, 2007). He made the following statement in his book which […]

Iran’s Ahmadinejad would be proud of Abbas’ speech New York – Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas made in speech to a rally of his Fatah supporters calling on Palestinians to stop killing each other and to murder Israeli Jews instead. Addressing a huge rally of 250,000 in Ramallah in honor of the 42nd anniversary […]