Capitol Hill Pro-Israel Mission HUNDREDS OF ZOA PRO-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS LOBBY CONGRESS “G-d bless ZOA. I’m here to say thank you. There is no organization in America like ZOA… People here speak truth to lies, bring light to darkness.” 5 SUPPORT FOR CONGRESSIONAL BILLS Hundreds of activists from across the country participated in the ZOA’s Pro-Israel Capitol Hill Mission on June 6, 2017. Meeting with almost 100 members of Congress or their staffers, ZOA activists urged Congress to: 1) Support the Taylor Force Act, which would stop all aid to Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA) unless it ends all pensions to terrorists and their families. 2) Support House and Senate bills that would impose new sanctions and strengthen existing financial sanctions against Iran. 3) Support House and Senate bills to eliminate the president’s waiver authority and withhold certain funds from the State Dept. until the U.S. embassy is moved to Jerusalem. 4) Support House and Senate bills that would prohibit U.S. funding of any UN agency until the UN ends its bias against and demonization of Israel. At the ZOA’s packed congressional luncheon, held in the Russell Senate Office Building, ZOA activists were addressed by many Democratic and Republican senators and House members, an official from the Trump administration, and other pro-Israel leaders. A sampling of the speeches follows: —Sen. Ted Cruz MISSION SPEAKERS: ZOA National President Morton Klein ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “This is an extraordinary and remarkable time for the Jewish people. Israel controls Jerusalem and most of Judea and Samaria, we have a powerful army, and a friend in the White House in President Donald Trump. The Senate voted yesterday 90 to 0 that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel.” Turning to an oft-repeated fiction about Jerusalem, Klein observed: “Jerusalem is not holy to Muslims; we are the only ones stating that truth. It’s a complete falsehood. The Temple Mount is called the Temple Mount, not the Mosque Mount…the majority of people living in Jerusalem since the 1850s have been Jews.” Klein described the claim that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian Arab lands as an “Orwellian falsehood. Occupation means one country seizing the sovereign land of another country. Israel was the sovereign land of the Jewish people… Until the 1960s, everyone knew that the term ‘Palestinian’ meant Jew… Arabs use the term West Bank to de- Judaize Judea and sever our millennia-long
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