New York — Outgoing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) OC, Southern Command, Maj.-Gen. Dan Harel, has strongly criticized Egypt for failing to honor the Gaza agreement with Israel to seal the Egypt-Gaza border as part of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria. Egyptian troops have allowed scores of terrorists and large amounts of weapons to […]

New York – The ZOA has praised the Bush Administration for calling upon Palestinian Authority (PA) chief, Mahmoud Abbas, to require all candidates in next January’s legislative elections to renounce violence against Israel and for urging him to dismantle the terrorist movements operating within the PA. At present, Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas, are intending […]

New York – The ZOA has criticized Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas’ request to President George W. Bush to exert pressure on Israel to release Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, virtually all of whom have been involved in terrorist activities, including the architect of the current terrorist war, Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti is a founder […]

Terrorists belonging to Fatah, the Palestinian party (part of the terrorist PLO) co-founded by Yasser Arafat and Palestinian Authority (PA) chief, Mahmoud Abbas (now sole head), carried out two drive-by shootings in Judea and Samaria on Sunday, killing three Israelis and wounding five more, two of them critically. In response, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz cut […]

The Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, has stated that Israel has a military option to defeat terrorism and bring it down “very close to zero.” In a detailed interview, Halutz disagrees with the tired argument that there is no military solution to the problem of terrorism. He has said that only […]

New York – After the disastrous earthquake in Pakistan killing over 20,000 people, President Pervez Musharraf “made an urgent televised appeal on Sunday for international aid.” (New York Times – 10/10/05) Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom reported that “Israel immediately offered humanitarian aid to Pakistan, but that Israel’s offer has gone unanswered.” (Jerusalem Post – […]

New York – The ZOA has applauded President Bush’s recent address to the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C., in which he explicitly identified the ideology of “evil Islamic radicalism”, “militant jihadism” and “Islamo-fascism” as the driving force of radical Islamic terrorist groups with whom we are at war. President Bush called for no […]

New York — In an address last week to the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies, Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, the head of Israeli military intelligence, disclosed that Al Qaeda operatives entered Gaza from Egypt following Israel’s withdrawal. Zeevi-Farkash also said that during the ten days after the withdrawal, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestinian terrorist […]

New York — As part of the ZOA-initiated Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2005, the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 25 will be conducting hearings into materials bearing the seal of the government of Saudi Arabia inciting Muslims to acts of violence and promoting hatred of Jews and Christians, as well as Saudi materials describing […]

New York – The ZOA has applauded the recent official British statement on the correctness of Israeli counter-terrorism measures and the possibility of serious consequences for the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it fails to act to end terrorism and urged the Bush Administration to do the same. The British Minister of State for the Middle […]