Palestinians Don’t DeserveBush’s Praise as Peaceful New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly praised President Bush’s strong statements of support for Israel during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday, May 23 at the White House. President Bush said, “We reaffirm the deep and abiding ties between Israel and […]

New York — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in his speech before a joint session of the United States Congress yesterday that, “we will not surrender to terror, we will not yield to terror…we will never capitulate to terrorists or terrorism.” But then Olmert stated, “we will remove most of the settlements which are […]

Olmert & Bush meet New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed its opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan for further unilateral retreats/evacuations in Judea and Samaria as presented by Olmert in his joint White House press conference yesterday with President George W. Bush. The ZOA is also perplexed by […]

Washington — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that would cut off the Palestinian Authority from U.S. aid and restrict humanitarian assistance. The House approved the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as H.R. 4681 on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 by a vote of 361-37. Initiated by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Rep. […]

As printed in USA Today It has been 13 years since the Oslo “peace process” began. During this time, Israel has given away over half the disputed territories. Despite these concessions, Israel got nothing in return except a terror war launched in 2000 by Palestinians, who murdered and maimed thousands of people, and now the […]

New York – The Israeli Labor Party, the largest coalition partner of Ehud Olmert’s Kadima-led coalition government, is demanding that the government not move forward for twelve months on its ‘convergence plan,’ whereby Israel would unilaterally retreat from most of Judea and Samaria, with the Hamas/Palestinian Authority (PA) absorbing the territory evacuated by Israel. More […]

Likud Knesset member and former Prisoner of Zion, Natan Sharansky, has said in a radio interview that President George Bush will try to discourage Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from pushing his plan for carrying out further Israeli unilateral withdrawals in Judea and Samaria and the forcible removal of 70,000 Jewish men women and children […]

New York – Kenneth L. Marcus, Staff Director and Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, noted that “the ongoing investigation” of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine was “prompted” by the “complaint filed by the Zionist Organization of America … on behalf of Jewish students at UCI.” Mr. Marcus’ comments […]

New York – As in previous years, the Palestinian Authority (PA) official television broadcast on May 15 numerous programs and video clips to mourn Israel’s creation, which they call the “Naqba’ (‘Catastrophe’), used recurrent themes of denying Israel’s right to exist and called for undoing of “the catastrophe,” which is a euphemism for Israel’s destruction. […]

New York – On May 9, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision in favor of Raphael Bigio, Bahia Bigio, Ferial Salma Bigio, and B. Bigio & Co. — three members of an Egyptian Jewish family and a company they control. The Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) Center for […]