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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
In 1920-1921, 1929, and 1936-1939, when Arabs brutally slaughtered hundreds of innocent Jews in the Hebron massacre, Nebi Mussa massacre, pogroms in Jerusalem, and other massacres, the British Mandatory overlords didn’t punish or restrict the Arabs. Instead, the British illegally restricted Jewish immigration into Israel (dooming millions of European Jews to death), disarmed Jews, and stopped other Jewish rights – even including preventing Jews from blowing the Shofar at the Western Wall.
Today, Israel is supposed to be a sovereign nation. But we are deeply concerned that, perhaps under pressure from the Biden administration, Israel just reportedly entered into a one-sided agreement: that rewards the increasing Arab terror with a 4- to 6-month settlement freeze that only restricts Jews while Arabs continue their massive illegal building on Jewish lands. The agreement also dangerously calls for “significantly enhancing” the Palestinian Authority’s finances – despite the fact that the PA just increased its rewards to Arab terrorists, including building luxury villas for terrorists; affirms PA legal rights over security in Area A – which could impede Israeli security; and more.
This new agreement appears to reiterate an agreement for a 4- to 6-month settlement freeze reportedly made at a quintet summit in Aqaba in February. At that time, the Israeli government stated that it did not agree to a settlement freeze and that there will be no change in Israel’s unanimous decision (made in response to an Arab terrorist murdering seven innocent Israelis in front of a Jerusalem synagogue) to legalize nine communities and to build 9,500 housing units in Judea and Samaria. We hope it is still the case that Israel will continue with these legalization and building plans.
Israel appears to be getting nothing from the latest deal; while giving up tangible rights. We had hoped that the new Israeli government would do much better than this; and would not make any concessions to Arab terrorists, regardless of Biden administration pressure.
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