NEW YORK- While some in the West have been praising PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas as a “moderate,” Abbas spent part of last week in Damascus holding friendly meetings with the leaders of groups that are on the official U.S. list of terrorist groups, and who call for Israel’s destruction, and with the pro-terrorist Syrian dictator […]

NEW YORK- Dashing international hopes that a new, moderate leadership might emerge among the Palestinian Arabs, Yasir Arafat’s old terrorist cronies have assumed control of the senior leadership positions of the major Palestinian Arab institutions. * Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has been named chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is the umbrella-organization for Palestinian […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) opposes the Bush administration’s plan to send a senior U.S. official to the funeral of Yasir Arafat, in view of the fact that Arafat is responsible for the murders of two U.S. diplomats and many other Americans. Since the 1960s, Palestinian Arab terrorists have murdered more than […]

NEW YORK- The U.S. government’s Office for Civil Rights has launched a formal investigation into the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine, following a complaint submitted by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s Center for Law and Justice. The Office for Civil Rights, a division of the U.S. […]

NEW YORK- Yasir Arafat’s death will not increase the chances for Arab-Israeli peace, because the problem is not just Arafat but rather the Palestinian Arabs’ entire culture of anti-Jewish hatred and violence, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “Just because Arafat will be gone, it doesn’t […]

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 […]

by: Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA   At first glance, it would seem that a modest majority in Israel’s Knesset supports unilateral retreat from Gaza and forcible transfer of the 8300 Jewish residents. The recent Knesset vote on the Gaza retreat plan was 67 in favor, out of 120 Knesset Members, representing […]

NEW YORK- American voters in 34 states will be voting tomorrow on no less than 163 referendums and ballot initiatives, on issues from tobacco taxation to bear baiting. Why can’t Israeli voters have one referendum, on the life-and-death issue of whether or not to unilaterally retreat from strategic territory and forcibly transfer 8300 Jews from […]

NEW YORK- Despite a slew of new Israeli concessions to the Palestinian Arabs in recent days, the Palestinian Arabs have responded with another suicide bombing, in which at least three Israelis were murdered and 38 maimed. This demonstrates that unilateral Israeli concessions, such as retreating from Gaza and forcibly transferring 8300 Jews from that area, […]

NEW YORK- The Israeli Knesset’s vote in favor of unilateral Gaza retreat not only rewards and appeases terrorists, but the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza will make it much easier for terrorists to set up bomb factories and bring weapons into Gaza, including even more dangerous and accurate missiles that will threaten major cities […]