Yaalon: West’s appeasement & lack of will troubling Former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon, has called upon Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign and argued that last year’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria caused the latest war with Hizballah in Lebanon. In calling for Olmert’s resignation, Yaalon […]

PA textbook: Israel based on ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ New York – Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) has introduced in the PA school system — run independently of Hamas — a curriculum that incites hatred and murder of Jews and prepares a new generation of Palestinians to destroy Israel. The Intelligence and Terrorism […]

63% – Olmert should resign 45%-24% Bibi over Olmert New York – A new poll conducted by Maagar Mohot (‘The Brain Trust’), a respected Israeli pollster, shows that if new elections were held now, the current small left-wing majority in the Israeli Knesset would be dramatically overturned and replaced by a clear majority of 66 […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting efforts being made by Representative Tom Lantos, the top Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, to have the $230 million US aid package for Lebanon frozen until the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora takes control of its borders with Syria and prevents arms […]

New York – A new Israeli poll has found that nearly two-thirds of Israelis — 64.4% — oppose the Israeli Government Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter’s proposal of negotiating the handing over of the Golan Heights to Syria in return for a peace treaty with the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Only 27.4 % of Israelis […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to President George W. Bush, urging him to cut ties with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, following the payment of salaries to some 5,000 armed personnel of the Islamist terrorist group, Hamas. The payments were made to members of Hamas’ […]

New York – Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists, having returned home from combat duty in Lebanon, have issued a call for the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to resign over the conduct of the 34-day war which ended with the Lebanese Islamist terrorist group Hizballah still armed and on the ground in southern Lebanon. In […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, for failing to criticize Syria or Iran for attempting to rearm the Lebanese Islamist terrorist group, Hizballah, while criticizing Israel for taking action to prevent it from being re-supplied with Iranian and Syrian weaponry. According to United Nations […]

New York – Only days since the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 (UNSCR 1701), Lebanese leaders and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have made it clear that it will not bring about the disarmament of the Lebanese Islamist terrorist group, Hizballah. According to reports, Lebanon will not disarm Hizballah: “The Lebanese […]

New York – Veteran Israeli left-wing columnist, Ari Shavit, and other Israeli columnists have written devastating indictments of the handling of the Hizballah/Lebanon war by the Israeli government of Ehud Olmert. Excerpts from Shavit’s critical commentary in Haaretz, also known as the New York Times of Israel (August 11 & 12): “You cannot lead an […]