For a community among the most active and generous in the world, American Jewry has been surprisingly placid in recent months regarding the Palestinian wave of terror against Israelis. One would have expected that the daily shootings, stabbings and stonings would have evoked an outpouring of support for the beleaguered targets of the violence. But […]

It should be the fundamental position of the U.S. Government that the Government of Israel is the only legitimate body for making security decisions about the borders of the State of Israel. Contrary to the beliefs of some and the preferences of others, the United States must decline to tell the Government of Israel that […]

NEW YORK – The State Department’s annual human rights report, which was released this week, ignores the role of Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority leadership in organizing violence against Israel, and whitewashes the constant Palestinian Arab attacks on Jewish holy sites. Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), said: […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has challenged Secretary of State Colin Powell’s statements blaming “both sides” for the current Palestinian Arab violence against Israel, thereby equating Israeli self-defense measures with Palestinian Arab terrorism. In his press conference with Yasir Arafat in Ramallah on February 25, 2001, Powell stated four different times that […]

Safire warned that the State Department is “still dominated by the same Clinton crowd that brought us the giveaway peace process that started a war.” Safire added: After Palestinians rejected the Clinton-Barak plan to divide Jerusalem (thereby revealing that their hunger would not be satisfied until Arabs “returned” to take over all of Israel, Yasir […]

NEW YORK – The State Department’s annual human rights report, which was released this week, ignores the role of Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority leadership in organizing violence against Israel, and whitewashes the constant Palestinian Arab attacks on Jewish holy sites. Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), said: […]

The World Alliance of YMCAs, based in Geneva, is injecting itself into Middle East politics by launching an anti-Israel crusade, which is causing a rift between YMCAs in the US and Canada and the worldwide organization. The international group has posted on its Web site a 3,000 word report based on a five day visit […]

(Washington, D.C.) At his press conference last Thursday, President Bush reiterated a commitment he has made repeatedly in recent months: Saddam Hussein will not be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction (WMD). As the President put it: “The primary goal is to make it clear to Saddam that we expect him to be a […]

The state of Israel has armed its enemies. After six years it is still difficult to digest this. It is hard to believe that by its own hand,. Israel built up a hostile military force and let it entrench itself in the heart of the country, “How do we expect them to keep order if […]

President Clinton’s Middle East machinations in the waning days of his presidency meant much more than just “sound and fury signifying nothing.” His desperate attempts to cobble together yet another meaningless agreement between Barak and Arafat also demonstrated the serious damage inflicted on Israel during his administration. The ramifications of the President’s bridging proposals, which […]