NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested the latest attempt by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer to pressure Israel into making more one-sided concessions to the Palestinian Arabs. Ambassador Kurtzer told Israel Army Radio (as quoted by Ha’aretz, June 22, 2004) that Israel “should dismantle settlement outposts and freeze building in other […]

NEW YORK – While the international community focuses on Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria-Gaza, Palestinian Arab construction in those territories rose nearly 27% this year, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. According to Israeli government estimates, Arabs have been building at ten times the rate of Jews in the territories. The pro-Arafat newspaper Arab […]

NEW YORK- The Palestinian Authority has been providing weapons and ammunition to Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza, according to a new report. In response, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to acknowledge that the PA is a terrorist regime and treat it accordingly. The report, which was released by the […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the chancellor of the University of California at Irvine to reverse his decision to permit students to wear green sashes glorifying suicide bombings at the university’s commencement ceremony on June 18, 2004. The sash, or “Shahada,” is a symbol worn by Muslim extremists as a […]

NEW YORK- Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Yasir Arafat still seeks destruction, and, like Adolf Hitler, uses negotiations not in order to achieve peace but as a different method of achieving his final goals so says a senior Israeli military official. Major-General (res.) Amos Gilad, who is head of the Political Security Bureau in the Defense […]

NEW YORK- Despite claims by Gaza retreat supporters that the Bush administration would accept Israel’s security fence if the Gaza withdrawal plan was passed, the administration has again publicly criticized the fence. At the daily State Department press briefing on June 15, 2004, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said: “The fence is a problem … […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized President Bush’s assertion that U.S. national security will be harmed if he implements the U.S. law requiring the relocation of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act of 1995 required that the embassy be moved to Jerusalem […]

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 – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to speak out in response to the latest declaration by a Saudi official that “Zionism” is to blame for recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia. Earlier this year, the Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, declared that recent terrorist attacks in Saudi […]

NEW YORK- In response to reports that cash payments will be offered to Jewish residents of Gaza to encourage them to move out, 94% of the almost 8,000 Jews living in Gush Katif, the main bloc of Gaza Jewish neighborhoods, have signed a petition rejecting such offers, according to Israeli media reports. Morton A. Klein, […]