Lunatic Conspiracy TheoriesPermeate Syrian Media New York – The Syrian government controlled daily Al-Thawra published an article by columnist Abd Al-Rahman Ghunaym suggesting that Israel created the avian flu virus in order to damage “genes carried only by Arabs” (January 31). The article speculates that Israel may have planted the virus in East Asia in […]

New York – Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, an American citizen who was born in Jerusalem, won his appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals, after the federal district court in Washington, D.C. dismissed his case against the U.S. State Department in the fall of 2004. Zivotofsky sued the State Department to force it to comply with […]

Two-State SolutionIrrelevant New York – Former Israel Defense Forces Chief General Moshe Yaalon spoke today at Dore Gold’s Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) seminar at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. He stated that the negatives far outweighed the positives in the outcome of the forced evacuation of 9000 Jews from Gaza. The Gaza […]

New York – A detailed report in World Net Daily, which interviewed senior commanders from various Palestinian terrorist groups, indicates that these groups are planning a third intifada of heightened and continuous terrorist attacks against Israel, consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and “a few new surprises in our arsenal” (World Net […]

New York – The ZOA has urged the Bush Administration to review its policy of funding the Palestinian Authority (PA) and maintaining ties with it, following a new Gallup poll that found that 57% of Americans oppose giving any financial aid to the PA while Hamas is in power. The poll shows that Americans have […]

New York – The ZOA has described as a disgrace the nomination for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film Category for the film ‘Paradise Now’, made by the Dutch-Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, which legitimizes Palestinian suicide bombers. ‘Paradise Now’ tells the story of two Palestinians, Said and Khaled, recruited to carry out suicide bombings […]

New York – About 70% of the Israeli public believe that Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria last year did not contribute anything towards peace or have any practical value, according to a poll conducted by the Geocartographic Institute on behalf of Israel Army Radio. In contrast, only 20% pf those polled thought […]

New York – The ZOA has condemned the decision of the General Synod of the Church of England to back a call from the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East for divesting from companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the Judea and Samaria, such as Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar, a […]

New York – A new poll by respected Israeli pollster Yitzhak Katz of the Maagar Mohots Survey Institute shows that only 35% of all Israelis, (including Israeli Arabs), favor “unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria if the PA doesn’t fight terror.” Among those voting for the Ohlmert Kadima Party, 54% supported further unilateral withdrawals. (Poll […]

New York – In a recent opinion piece, Professor Efraim Inbar, Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, analyzes developments within the Palestinian Authority (PA) and concludes that the paradigm of a two-state solution, with a Palestinian state neighboring the state of Israel, is […]