Category Op-Ed
OP-ED BY: Laura Fein Game of Chicken: Hostile Words Precede Hostile Action

The Obama Administration’s contempt for Israel reached a new low when a senior administration official told Atlantic Monthly reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickens**t.” A second senior official called the Israeli Prime Minister (and former elite special ops commando) a “coward” for obliging U.S. policy and not bombing Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. I […]

OP-ED BY: Lee S. Bender ZOA Philly Leader Spearheads Effort to Honor Liberators Who Re-Birthed Israel

It is no secret that the eyewitnesses to the Nazi death camps — the liberators from the U.S. and Allied armies — are quickly dying off. They did their duty, most having no clue that the devastation and utter horror they would witness would linger with them permanently.    The mahalniks, the 4,000 volunteers from […]

OP-ED BY: Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel ZOA Op-ed in Jerusalem Post on Ineffectiveness of International Peacekeepers

Published 10/06/2014 23:02 In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East cease-fire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian cease-fire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view of US Secretary of State John […]

OP-ED BY: Mort Klein & Dan Mandel ZOA Op-ed in American Thinker About UN Troops Protecting Israel

Published October 2, 2014 In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian ceasefire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view of Secretary of State John […]

OP-ED Designating Etzion Bloc State Land Threatens No Genuine Peace Process

While the Middle East burns and tens of thousands of corpses pile up in Syria and Iraq, Jewish residence anywhere beyond the 1949 armistice lines –– eastern Jerusalem, Judea/Samaria (West Bank) transfixes the attention of foreign governments. Just recall the Obama Administration saying nothing when, in March 2010, the Palestinian Authority (PA) named a public […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein ZOA: Poof, the magic settlements!

When Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah/Palestinian Authority (PA) signed a reconciliation agreement with Hamas, a recognized terrorist group that calls in its Charter for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews, the State Department’s spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, observed, “It’s hard to see how Israel can be expected to negotiate with a government that does not […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein Gov. Christie, His “Occupied Territory” Remark, and Radical Islam

Last week, potential presidential candidate, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, spoke to hundreds of  Jews at the pro-Israel Republican Jewish Coalition meeting  at the Las Vegas’ Palazzo hotel. Surprisingly, Christie didn’t mention Israel in his prepared remarks but during the Q &A, he inaccurately referred to Judea and Samaria as “occupied territories.”  This is the language […]

OP-ED BY: Michael Goldblatt ZOA: Pal. Lies & Denial About Jewish Connection & Rights in J’lem Must Stop Now

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to the surreal situation in which Israel is presently under American pressure to make concessions to Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah/Palestinian Authority (PA) when Abbas’ PA actively continues to deny the Jewish connection to Israel in general and Jerusalem in particular and to demand an end to Jewish rights […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA With Geneva, Military Force Only Remaining Option To Stop Iranian Nukes

  The interim nuclear agreement between the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States as well as Germany) and Iran is a disaster. President Obama has said that this deal dramatically reduces the likelihood of war. Ironically, it increases it. It certainly dramatically increases the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.  The Geneva […]

OP-ED BY: By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President Op-Ed: Seven Reasons Showing Obama Not Serious About Stopping Iran Nukes

Before entering the White House, President Barack Obama promised repeatedly to do “everything, everything” to prevent the Iranian regime obtaining nuclear weapons. Upon closer examination, one sees this promise is as true as his statements that Americans can keep their healthcare plans and that an unknown anti-Muslim video caused the terrorist slaughter of Americans in […]