NEW YORK- Former State Department official Martin Indyk is calling on the United States to “monitor and report” on implementation of the Road Map plan so as to ensure that Israel and the Palestinian Arabs comply—but the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out that for the past ten years, the State Department has already […]

Five More Americans Murdered byPalestinian Arabs — 46 Since ‘93 NEW YORK- In response to the Palestinian Arab massacre of 20 Jews on a Jerusalem bus —including five American citizens— the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to cut off all negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA), halt U.S. financial aid […]

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) has strongly protested the Bush administration’s pressure on Israel to stop dismantling illegal Arab houses in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Post reports (Aug.18, 2003) that “diplomats from the U.S. consulate met recently with Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski to express their deep concern at the increase in the number […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply troubled by the use of extreme and intemperate language by World Jewish Congress president Edgar Bronfman in his public attacks on WJC senior vice-president Isi Leibler. The controversy began when, on the eve of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to the White House, Bronfman sent […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised President Bush’s decision to continue to stand by his nomination of Dr. Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein, chairman of the board Dr. Alan Mazurek, and National Policy Coordinator Sarah Stern have sent […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled by Edgar Bronfman’s statement implicitly justifying Palestinian Arab terrorism against Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and is deeply disappointed by his subsequent vague and inadequate statement “explaining” his earlier comment. Bronfman, the president of the World Jewish Congress, said: “If the Palestinian suicide […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply troubled by a report that the U.S. official in charge of monitoring Palestinian Arab compliance with the Bush Road Map plan has accepted the Palestinian Authority’s implausible claim that it is “unable to wage war” against terrorist groups. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported (August 7, […]

NEW YORK- In blatant violation of President Bush’s Road Map, the Palestinian Authority has justified the Palestinian Arab suicide bombing in the town of Rosh Ha’ayin, in which one Israeli was murdered and ten wounded. The official PA statement regarding the Rosh Ha’ayin bombing included a brief, perfunctory condemnation of what it called “the Tel […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the Bush administration’s pressure on Israel to refrain from taking action against the Syrian-sponsored Hezbollah terrorists. Last weekend, a Hezbollah missile attack on northern Israel killed an Israeli child and wounded four others. Hezbollah is on the official U.S. list of terrorist groups because it […]