Gaza threat will be significantly greater a year from now The head of the Operations Directorate of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) General Staff, Brigadier-General Sami Turjeman, and the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Research Department, Brigadier-General Yossi Beidetz, have warned that the Palestinian Arab terrorist group Hamas is using the current ceasefire to […]

Former Knesset Defense Committee head also blasts decision The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the approval by Ehud Olmert’s government of another transfer of weaponry to Palestinian Authority (PA) president and Fatah co-founder and chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which follows an earlier one in May. The Olmert government decided yesterday to approve the transfer […]

A columnist in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official television paper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida , has admitted that it was Arab leaders who were responsible for the flight of Arabs from the new State of Israel in 1948. The columnist, Mahmud Al-Habbash, recently wrote that in 1948, Palestinian Arabs left their homes willingly under the instruction of […]

ZOA urges other Jewish & Christian groups to protest The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to President George W. Bush, criticizing him for having again invoked a waiver to prevent the transfer of the American embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (The letter was signed by ZOA National President Morton A. Klein, Chairman […]

“Israel’s military deterrence was damaged”in Hizballah war The head of the Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service), Meir Dagan, has stated that Syria is “more willing now than ever before” to take military action against Israel. Addressing the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday, Dagan said that as a result of the recent Lebanon war Syria […]

WASHINGTON — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) commended the passage of S. 2370, the 2006 Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act in the closing days of the 109th Congress. “We commend the Congress,” said Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA, “for the recent House passage of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act (PATA) of 2006. This bipartisan […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Israeli High Court of Justice’s decision today which permits Palestinian Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza to file lawsuits against Israel for damages sustained during Israel Defense Forces (IDF) counter-terrorist operations, thereby nullifying a 2005 Knesset law. This High Court ruling allows […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has applauded to of the nation’s foremost national security experts, US Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and former CIA Director under President Clinton, R. James Woolsey, for urging President George W. Bush to repudiate the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) Report produced under the co-chairmanship […]

Implementing Baker Report will cripple war on Islamist terror The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized the Iraq Study Group Report, produced under the co-chairmanship of former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, for ignoring 13 years of Palestinian terrorism, incitement to hatred and murder of Israelis by […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned former President Jimmy Carter’s latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, as inaccurate, shallow and vicious. The book is but the latest in decades of attacks upon Israel by the former President. Examples of Carter’s distortions, inaccuracies and hostility in this book include: Carter: “The overriding problem is […]