The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has begun a major campaign against the creation of a Palestinian state. Fifty prominent Jewish and Christian leaders, as well as former U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett, have signed a full-page ad opposing the formation of yet another Arab state, this one in the heartland of the Land of Israel. The ad is scheduled to run in The New York Times, the Washington Times, the Weekly Standard, leading Israeli newspapers, and Jewish newspapers in the United States. The ad is headlined "President Bush, Creating a Palestinian Arab State Means Creating a New Terrorist State. Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya were givensovereignty. That didn't turn them into peace-loving nations."
The ad also states that the Palestinian Authority "promotes a culture ofanti-Jewish and anti-American hatred in its media, schools, summer camps,officials' speeches, and sermons by PA-appointed clergymen… Newspapers that dissent from Arafat's line are shut down ... Christians are persecuted and pressured to emigrate ... Jewish holy sites are desecrated… Giving the Palestinian Arabs a sovereign state will only strengthen their underlying culture of hatred and violence. It will enable them to bring in troops and advanced weaponry from Iran, Iraq, and other terror regimes, as well as shoulder-launched missiles -- like the ones recently fired at an Israeli airplane in Kenya -- which will threaten every plane taking off from Israel's airports…"
The ad also states that the Palestinian Authority "promotes a culture ofanti-Jewish and anti-American hatred in its media, schools, summer camps,officials' speeches, and sermons by PA-appointed clergymen… Newspapers that dissent from Arafat's line are shut down ... Christians are persecuted and pressured to emigrate ... Jewish holy sites are desecrated… Giving the Palestinian Arabs a sovereign state will only strengthen their underlying culture of hatred and violence. It will enable them to bring in troops and advanced weaponry from Iran, Iraq, and other terror regimes, as well as shoulder-launched missiles -- like the ones recently fired at an Israeli airplane in Kenya -- which will threaten every plane taking off from Israel's airports…"