See the complete report at the foregoing link.

The second press release attacks the Bush decision not to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. ZOA states:

ZOA Criticizes President Bush For Again Refusing To Move U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) expressed its disappointment in President Bush, for this month once again invoking the Presidential waiver on the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, that calls for the U.S. Embassy in Israel to be relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It was the eighth such waiver for Bush, and he again cited “the national security interests of the United States” as the reasons for failing to fulfill the 1995 law.

“It’s now been ten years since this act was enacted,” said Morton A. Klein, National President of ZOA. “It’s deeply disappointing, and unacceptable,” said Klein, “that the will of Congress and the American people continues to be waived every six months.”

“The President needs to remember that Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Jewish sacred texts, and not once in the Qur’an, that in the 19 years it was controlled by Jordan, no Arab leader even visited the city; it was left to become a slum, with few homes having electricity or running water, and that Jerusalem has never served as the capital of any state occupying the region, except Israel.”

Since the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, an initiative of then-Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), U.S. law has required that the U.S. Embassy in Israel be established in Jerusalem, and over $100 million dollars was approved for the move. Failure to do so by 1999 was to have triggered severe penalties on the other constructions under the U.S. foreign aid program. But the establishment of the Embassy in Jerusalem has been postponed without penalty through the exercise of the Presidential waiver in the 1995 legislation, first by President Clinton in December 1999, and subsequently every six months by the Bush Administrations. “National security concerns,” have been consistently cited as the reason for the delay, and without real explanation.

Congressional resolutions and efforts to put the spotlight back on to the 1995 requirements have failed to alter the White House position. Even though Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s government, it remains the only capital city designated by the host country in which the U.S. does not maintain an embassy nor fully recognize it as the capital.

The third ZOA press release underscores ZOA's support for Bolton's nomination:

ZOA Endorses John Bolton As U.S. Ambassador To The United Nations The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) announced its strong support for President Bush’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, currently the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. The ZOA calls on the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support the President’s nominee and move swiftly to bring the nomination to a full vote of the Senate.

“Undersecretary Bolton has shown himself to be a man of enormous integrity,” said Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA. “He would be an outstanding advocate for the interests of the United States at the U.N. He also understands the reforms necessary to make the U.N. a more effective moral body that works to improve the difficult conditions that exist in many places around the globe.”

Bolton distinguished himself in previous dealings with the U. N., being the driving force behind the revocation of the U.N. General Assembly’s 1975 “Zionism is racism” Resolution in 1991. It is this achievement Bolton calls a “highlight of my career,” and one that removed “the greatest stain on the U.N.’s reputation.”

Klein also noted, “Undersecretary Bolton has shown himself to be a strong supporter of Israel who believes in its importance to America, and he has proven himself as an effective proponent of the war on terrorism – two things sorely needed at the U.N.”