NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized Secretary of State Powell for his statements accepting the Palestinian Authority’s offers to give Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists a role in upcoming Palestinian Arab elections. At a press conference on November 22, 2004, in Jericho (www.state.gov/secretary/rm/38565.htm) Powell was asked about the PA’s friendly […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply concerned about a report that the Bush administration is pressuring Israel to “negotiate under fire” — that is, to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority, and make concessions to it, even as the PA continues to wage a daily terrorist war against Israel. The Jewish Telegraphic […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is contacting leading Members of Congress to urge them to block the Bush administration’s plan to give direct financial aid to the terrorist Palestinian Authority regime. The Washington Post reports (Nov. 18, 2004) that the administration “plans to give $20-million in U.S. aid directly to the Palestinian […]

NEW YORK- Another leading commentator is pointing out that the main obstacle to Middle East peace was not just Yasir Arafat, but rather the Palestinian Arabs’ entire culture of hatred and violence. Charles Krauthammer, in his syndicated column (Washington Post, Nov. 15, 2004), writes: “Deploying every instrument of propaganda — television, radio, newspapers and, most […]

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 […]