Oslo forbids Hamas-type in electionsNew York – The ZOA has strongly backed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in his refusal to assist the Palestinian Authority (PA) in holding legislative elections in January if the terrorist movement Hamas is allowed to participate and has called upon President Bush to do the same. It is also a […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) finds it painful to see that 12 years after Oslo began, after major concessions of giving away one-half of Judea & Samaria and all of Gaza, arming the Palestinian police, forcibly removing 10,000 Jews from their homes, and billions of dollars in international aid; it is still necessary for […]

Would world be silent if Israel destroyed mosques? New York – With Israel’s unilateral retreat from Gaza, synagogues abandoned intact have been destroyed by Palestinian mobs. “Hours after the Israelis left the settlement of Neve Dekalim, young Palestinians were tearing aluminum window frames and metal ceiling fixtures out of the main synagogue there, as fires […]

New York – Despite the fact that the Bush Administration has increased the amount of US aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its chief Mahmoud Abbas over what the Clinton Administration provided, including a recent additional gift of $50 million in direct aid on August 24, 2005; the PA is promoting horrifying anti-American propaganda, […]

Bush: No Buildingin Maale AdumimNew York – Both the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post reported that “Israel has bowed to United States pressure” and decided not to build apartments on the outskirts of Maale Adumim, a large Jewish community near Jerusalem. Over 30,000 Jews reside there. This housing development is within the existing […]

New York — Last week Sheikh Muhammad Ali, deputy director of the Palestinian Clerics Association, said in an interview on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV that “we will enter Palestine as conquerors and liberators, not through negotiations, but through Jihad and the Muslim would kill the Jews…we will wipe out the Zionist enemy.” (Translation courtesy of MEMRI) […]

As published in theJerusalem PostAbbas disappoints… Sir, — It was deeply disappointing to see Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas recently criticize Israel for killing wanted Islamic Jihad terrorists, one of whom orchestrated two suicide bombings killing 10 Israelis in February and July of this year (“Katyusha fired at Galilee, 2 Kassams at Sderot,” August 26). If […]

A bipartisan group of twenty-two lawmakers sent a letter to President Bush urging him to call on the Palestinian Arab leader, Mahmoud Abbas, “to do all in his power to ensure that the participation of Hamas in the upcoming elections is conditional on…revising their charter eliminating language that states that ‘the day of judgment will […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today strongly condemned Holocaust Denier and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas for accusing Israel of “condemning peace efforts with an undercover military raid in the West Bank city of Tulkarm” in which 5 Islamic Jihad terrorists were killed. But Abbas said nothing about the murder […]

New York — Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Culture released its Book of the Month today, a poetry collection honoring suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat who murdered 29 Israelis in a Haifa restaurant in October 2003 (Palestinian Media Watch, August 22, 2003). This was distributed as a special supplement in the Palestinian Arab paper […]