New York – ZOA Calls On Tillerson To Quit Over State Department Saying Palestinian Terrorism Stems From ‘lack Of Hope’

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    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with United US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson in Washington, D.C., February 15, 2017. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO New York – The Zionist organization of America called on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to resign over the State Department terrorism report which the ZOA called “bigoted, biased, anti-Semitic, Israel-hating (and) error-ridden.”

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    “This Tillerson State Department Report blames Israel for Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks on innocent Jews and Americans, ignores and whitewashes the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) ‘pay to slay’ payments to Arabs to murder Jews, among other travesties,” said a ZOA statement Monday about the report, published last week.

    In the report, the State Department listed as “continued drivers of violence” a “lack of hope in achieving Palestinian statehood, Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, the perception that the Israeli government was changing the status quo on the Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount, and IDF tactics that the Palestinians considered overly aggressive.”

    It also said that Palestinian leaders had addressed incitement.

    “The PA has taken significant steps during President [Mahmoud] Abbas’ tenure (2005 to date) to ensure that official institutions in the West Bank under its control do not create or disseminate content that incites violence,” it said. “While some PA leaders have made provocative and inflammatory comments, the PA has made progress in reducing official rhetoric that could be considered incitement to violence.”

    The ZOA said that the report directly contradicted multiple criticisms of the Palestinian Authority for incitement by President Donald Trump and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.

    The ZOA statement praised Rep. Pete Roskam, R-Ill., for his letter to the State Department last week seeking changes in the report.

    “I strongly you encourage to modify this report to accurately characterize and hold accountable the root causes of Palestinian violence — PA leadership,” Roskam said.


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    thetruthis
    thetruthis
    6 years ago

    Exactly what we need. American Zionists sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong -into American business – to incite more American suspicion against the Jews who live here. The ZOA should pick up and move to the Zionist state and leave us normal Jews alone.

    6 years ago

    Wow. That report could have been written by
    the vile mouthed Erdogan of Turkey.

    6 years ago

    Let the Zionists get out of our politics and influence Bibi as much as they want but leave out politicians alone!

    6 years ago

    I hope Tillerson doesnt cave into the pressure of the despicable Zionists. He is one man that makes me proud to be an American. If the Zionists will have anything to do with any form of resignation of Tillerson, I wonder what the anti semitism cry babies will say then. Every decent American will cry Jew and they’l be right. The problem is that we Jews are against the ZOA and everything they represent. The ZOA should shush up and get the .. out of our country. What a disgraceful chilul Hashem.

    HeshyEkes
    HeshyEkes
    6 years ago

    replaced by Republican Administrations, and back to Democratic; but nothing ever changes at the State Department. Under every Administration they favor the Arabs and vilify the Israelis, similar to the old boy network of the British Foreign Service. The expression that the fish starts to smell at the head, does not necessarily apply in this case.