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Two Knesset Members Submit Bill To Postpone Gaza Plan: Israeli General Says Government Not Ready For Pullout

New York – National Security Adviser General Giora Eiland said this week that the Israeli Government is unprepared for the Gaza/Northern Samaria (Gaza/NSamr) Evacuation Plan, “The impression of disorder that has been created is weakening the government and strengthening the Plan’s opponents.” (Jerusalem Post, 6/8/05) Jewish farmers from Gaza said they also feared that after […]

New Israeli Poll: Support For Gaza Withdrawal Plan Drops To 48%

New York — A poll of 576 Israelis (including Israeli Arabs) sent out by the Maagar Mochot Survey Institute, a major Israeli polling service, reveals that support for the Gaza Evacuation Plan has dropped to 48% of all Israelis. The poll was reported by Israel’s Channel 2 news. Since other polls have shown that an […]

New Israeli Poll: Less Than 50% Of Israeli Jews Support Gaza Evacuation

New York – The major Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on June 3, 2005 that a new poll shows that support for the Gaza Evacuation Plan has dropped to 50% of all Israelis (less than 50% for Jewish Israelis). Support for the Gaza Plan has been eroding steadily in the last few months. In addition, the […]

ZOA Praises Bush Refusal To Have Contact With Hamas Leaders Even If Democratically Elected

NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly praised President Bush and his administration for “rebuffing the suggestions of some European officials, and continuing to refuse to have contact with the terrorist group Hamas and its leaders even if some of those leaders win elections in Palestinian areas.” “The United States would not […]

Outgoing IDF Chief: New Palestinian Terror War Against Israel Will Begin After Gaza Evacuation

New York – In an interview with Israel’s Ha’Aretz newspaper, outgoing Israel Defense Forces Chief General Moshe Ya’alon said that following the Gaza evacuation and removal of 9,000 Jews from their homes, he expects “there will be an eruption. Terrorist attacks of all types: shooting, bombs, suicide bombers, mortars, Quassam rockets…there is a high probability […]

“Koby Mandell” Office Of Justice For Victims Of Overseas Terrorism Opens After Three-Year ZOA Initiated Campaign

WASHINGTON, DC — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) commends U. S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for moving forward with the mandates of the Koby Mandell Act and the opening of the new office of the Justice Department which will focus on the capture of Palestinian Arabs and other foreign nationals who have harmed […]

ZOA Regrets President Bush’s Public Demands On Israel While He Praised Palestinian Authority’s Abbas

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply disappointed by President Bush’s strong and sometimes troubling public demands of Israel while he praised Holocaust Denier Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and made no real public demands of the PA. In a press conference in the Rose Garden at the […]

Sharansky To Congress: No Gaza Withdrawal Without Ending Terror And Incitement

Don’t RepeatOslo MistakesNew York – In a Congressional hearing yesterday, chaired by U.S. Cong. Christopher Shays (R-CT), Natan Sharansky, former Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, said that “any Israeli concession as part of the Road Map, including the Gaza withdrawal, should be contingent on dismantling the terror groups, ending incitement in the schools and media, […]

ADL Poll – 59% Of Americans Oppose Rush To A Palestinian State

New York — In a poll released last week by the Anti-Defamation League, Americans were asked to choose between two statements. 1) Palestinians deserve their own homeland — an independent State. Peace in the Middle East will be strengthened by the creation of this State as soon as possible. 2) A Palestinian State should only […]

Arab Knesset Member, A Former Arafat Aide, Casts Deciding Vote To Fund Gaza Withdrawal

New York – The Israel National News reported that Ahmed Tibi, an Arab member of the Israeli Knesset and a former top aide to terrorist Yasser Arafat, cast the deciding vote in the Knesset Finance Committee yesterday, allotting over $25 million to fund the uprooting and evacuation of 10,000 Jews from the Jewish Beachside section […]