NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply concerned by the State Department spokesman’s statement that the U.S. “will work with” Marwan Barghouti if he is elected chairman of the Palestinian Authority — even though U.S. law would prohibit any contact with Barghouti since he is the leader of an organization which is […]

by Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA Mahmoud Abbas, who has succeeded Yasser Arafat as chairman of the PLO, is no moderate. As co-founder with Arafat of the terrorist Fatah group and as Arafat’s number two-man in the PLO for more than 40 years, Abbas was the architect of numerous mass murder terrorist […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has taken issue with President Bush’s statement that “the heart of the matter” between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs is “the need for a Palestinian democracy.” The ZOA points out that a terrorist who gets elected is still a terrorist — and the two leading candidates in […]

NEW YORK – A new study by a Harvard University professor has found that terrorism is not caused by poverty — thus further undermining the main premise behind international aid to the Palestinian Arabs. The Harvard University Gazette reports that Alberto Abadie, associate professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, “examined data on […]

NEW YORK- Palestinian Arab leader Mahmoud Abbas (“Abu Mazen”) has publicly demanded the “right of return” — the right of millions of Arab “refugees” from around the world to flood into Israel. Abbas is Arafat’s successor as chairman of the PLO. He co-founded the terrorist Fatah movement with Arafat, and has now been nominated by […]

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 disappointed by the Bush administration’s continuing pressure on Israel to make more one-sided concessions to the Palestinian Arabs. The New York Times reports (Nov. 22, 2004) that Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Israel to “press Prime Minister Ariel Sharon” to make new one-sided […]

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 […]