Peres should apologize New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized remarks made by Israeli Vice-Premier Shimon Peres denigrating concern over the incessant rocket attacks upon Sderot and other parts of Israel adjacent to Gaza as “hysteria” and for demeaning the danger of Qassem missile attacks as “Qassems schmassems.” Peres was quoted […]

New York – The head of Israel Defense Force’s (IDF) military intelligence, Major-General Amos Yadlin, has disclosed that strategic threats to Israel ‘s existence have intensified in the past year due in part to Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. Speaking at Haifa University earlier this week, Yadlin listed seven factors contributing to the deterioration in […]

New York – A Bir Zeit University poll, carried out earlier this month and released in recent days, shows that nearly two-thirds of Palestinians support the non-recognition policy towards Israel pursued by the Hamas/Palestinian Authority (PA) government. Specifically, the poll posed 1,200 Palestinians a choice between Hamas rejecting recognizing Israel or its recognizing Israel and […]

New York – The ZOA has criticized the Israeli government for planning to uproot 21 illegal Jewish outposts while ignoring the far more extensive illegal Arab housing in east Jerusalem and across Judea and Samaria. This week, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Jewish community leaders in Judea and Samaria that Jewish settlers who break […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has renewed its criticism of the Israeli decision last month to transfer weapons to Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mamhoud Abbas’ presidential guard, Force 17, after a senior Force 17 member, Abu Yousuf, did not deny that such weapons had been used in two recent terrorist attacks […]

June 14, 2006 – Morton A. Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America and William Devlin, former Presbyterian elder and evangelical Christian leader, released the following statement: “Leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) are gathering this week in Birmingham, Alabama. A central issue they will be considering is whether or not to […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (CPMJO) for its critical analysis and fact sheet on Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas’ ‘Prisoner’s Document,’ formulated by jail terrorist and proposed by Abbas for referendum. This document is a prescription for more terrorism, not […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested the reported new pressure on Israel by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer regarding security measures around Jerusalem area. According to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz (June 4, 2004), Ambassador Kurtzer met recently with Baruch Spiegel, a senior aide to Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz. “Kurtzer asked that […]

It seems you can’t read an article about the Arab-Israeli conflict these days without someone promoting and praising the National Accord Document, formulated by jailed Palestinian terrorists and proposed for a referendum by Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. The New York Times, for one, called it the “Palestinian Peace Plan.” But, in fact, […]

New York – Ari Shavit, the distinguished columnist for the major Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, said today, “the basic law of the Israeli – Palestinian jungle is that an Israeli withdrawal does not diminish the conflict, but instead exacerbates it.” (Ha’aretz, June 12, 2006). Other quotes from Shavit article: “The unilateralist strategy was never accepted by […]