Reply #26: ZOA has even attacked Paul Wolfowitz for supporting land for peace!

[IndianaGreen]

October 31, 2003

He Also Equated Israel & Terrorists

ZOA Criticizes Bush Aide For Supporting Plan
To Push Israel Back To The 1967 Borders

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America has criticized Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz for publicly praising a plan that would push Israel back to the indefensible pre-1967 borders and tear Jerusalem in half.

The Jerusalem Post reported (Oct. 31, 2003) that in an October 30 speech at Georgetown University, praised a plan being promoted by Israeli leftwing activists, known as the "Geneva Understandings," which requires Israel to return to the pre-1967 borders and would turn half of Jerusalem --including Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount-- into the capitol of a Palestinian Arab state. Wolfowitz said the points in the Geneva Plan "look very much like" the Bush administration's Road Map plan.

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Oct. 31, 2003), Wolfowitz said the Geneva plan "is the plan that best reflects the road map." He also said President Bush "is ready to pressure Israel" on issues such as Jewish communities in Judea-Samaria-Gaza.

To make matters worse, Wolfowitz repeatedly seemed to equate Israel and Palestinian Arab terrorists, by implying that Israel's counter-terror actions were comparable to Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks. He said, according to the Post: "The bombings and the violent response to the bombings in the last several months have certainly been a big setback, and we've got to get it back on track."

http://www.zoa.org/pressrel2003/20031031b.htm