New York – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), said yesterday that “the Israelis are responsible” for the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing that murdered 5 Israelis and injured dozens more. He asserted this in his first English-language interview since taking office in January. It was published in the March 7, 2005 edition […]

Published in the Jewish Journal of Los AngelesMarch 4, 2005 Despite the smiling images from Sharm el-Sheikh, the fact is that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, has taken no demonstrable steps to dismantle and disarm the vast Palestinian terror networks, end the incitement or arrest terrorists. And although his rhetoric even after […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) helped initiate and facilitate, along with the Columbia University chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) a landmark academic conference entitled, “The Middle East and Academic Integrity on the American Campus.” This major event is being held on Sunday, March 6, 2005, 10AM […]

New York – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset Channel that the Sharon family was “corrupt to the core,” and that “in any other normal country, Sharon would have no longer been in power.” Former PM Barak then added that the impression that Sharon has caved in to terrorism, “shared by Uzi […]

Washington – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) sponsored a Capitol Hill lecture and Q&A with Bat Ye’or, an internationally renowned expert on Euro-Islamic culture and society, in the banquet room of the Rayburn House Office Building on February 28. The event was held in cooperation with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin’s call last night to hold a referendum on the issue of whether to expel 9000 Jews from the Jewish section of Gaza and giving their land and homes to the Palestinian leader and Holocaust denier […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has taken issue with the Bush administration’s Secretary of State Rice’s pressure on Israel to throw the 9,000 Jews out of Gaza, transfer them, and give the land over to the Palestinian Authority (PA). In a press conference Secretary of State Rice gave at Ben-Gurion airport, […]

Published in the Jerusalem PostFebruary 10, 2005 Like so many other diplomatically inconvenient dilemmas, when it comes to the Palestinian Authority, the still unsolved murders of three Americans in Gaza two years ago has fallen victim to efforts to bolster the new Palestinian leadership. With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Ramallah now history, […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is surprised and worried about the alacrity of Israel’s return to negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA). But even more worrisome is the optimism and comfort level Israel has displayed concerning Palestinian leader and Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas and his regime. We are also deeply concerned […]

New York – While Sharon and other Israeli officials gathered to discuss a so-called “cease-fire” with Palestinian Authority (PA) leader and Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas, the official PA-TV playing official sermons by religious leaders calling for Israel’s destruction. On Friday, February 2, 2005, senior religious leader Ibrahim Mudyris said in his PA-TV sermon, “We tell […]