NEW YORK- The Israeli-American woman murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza last week was the 52nd such U.S. victim since the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993. Tiferet Tratner, 24, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was killed when Palestinian Arabs fired a rocket into the town of Neve Dekalim on September 23, 2004. Of […]

Background: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” “elect new leaders not compromised by terror,” and […]

NEW YORK- A senior Israeli official has said that Egypt’s policy is to promote Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israel, and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to suspend U.S. aid to Egypt until the Egyptians change their policy. Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, who is chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs […]

NEW YORK- A senior Palestinian Authority official has for the first time publicly acknowledged that the PA knows the identity of the terrorists who murdered three Americans in Gaza last year — but he says the PA will not arrest them. Musa Arafat, the head of PA Military Intelligence and a cousin of PA chairman […]

NEW YORK- A new poll has found that more than two-thirds of Israelis now support the holding of a national referendum on the proposal to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza. The poll, conducted by the Teleseker firm for the Israeli daily Ma’ariv on September 13, 2004, found that 69% of Israelis want a national referendum on […]

NEW YORK- While supporters of the Gaza retreat plan have claimed that an Israeli withdrawal will put a halt to international pressure against Israel for more concessions, French leaders have “laughed” at Israel’s expectation that they will stop their pressure. Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin told the Israeli newspaper Hatzofeh (Sept.15, 2004) that during his last […]

Rabin Supported Referendum Idea NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) supports the call by many leading Israelis for the holding of a national referendum on the proposal to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza. Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a referendum, and Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin (Jerusalem Post, Sept. 14, 2004) has […]

NEW YORK — Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America, today criticized the U.S. State Department’s decision to sponsor a U.S. tour by 15 prominent Islamists from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who promote intolerance. They were scheduled to arrive on American soil on September 12, the day after the third […]

“Leaving Gaza is ProofThat Violence Works”NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Israeli left and American Jewish left to “engage in some serious soul-searching,” following statements by Palestinian Arab terrorists that the activities of the Jewish left encourage Arab terror. The Arab terrorists’ statements are revealed in a new book, The […]

NEW YORK – Only a small minority of Israelis support giving up all Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, a new poll has found. The poll, conducted during August 29-31, 2004, is part of the monthly Peace Index Survey conducted by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research of Tel Aviv University (headed by Prof. […]