Morton Klein, Tom DeLay and Eugen Gluck |
ZIONIST
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
Mom Said
To Get Into
A Lifelong Profession
 ORTON
KLEIN’S mother once gave him advice for his life’s journey:
choose a career that guarantees a lifetime of work. She probably
meant doctor or lawyer. In any event, he took her advice. As
president of the Zionist Organization of America, he has a job
concerned with the Israel-Arab conflict.
Klein and journalist Joseph
Farah were the opening acts for the evening’s star – House
majority leader Tom DeLay – at the ZOA annual dinner at the
New York Hilton.
In a rousing oration, which
stirred his audience to incessant cheering, Klein declared his
unwavering opposition to a Palestinian state on the West Bank and
Gaza.
“We must terminate
terrorist states, not create new ones.”
Actually, he said, there is
no Arab-Israel conflict. “This is a religious war. The Muslims are
murdering Christians as well as Jews.“
Farah, a Christian Arab and
editor of www.WorldNetDaily.com,
accused the New York Times of ignoring historical facts. He
said the paper refuses to ascribe a Jewish historical presence to
the Temple Mount, and the Associated Press has followed suit.
“Journalism today is not
about the search for truth,” Farah said. “It’s about balancing
views. The more outrageous the claims of the Arabs, the more the
truth is skewered in the media.”
Farah was applauded
heartily by 689 guests, including Steven Emerson, Morris Amitay,
Rabbis Ephraim Buchwald and Shmuley Boteach, Hebron
spokesperson David Wilder, Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes,
Dr. Joseph Frager of Jerusalem Reclamation Project and Irwin
Hochberg.
Not to be outdone in the
applause factor, DeLay, the Republican representative from Texas,
launched a pro-Zionist speech that brought the dinner guests to
their feet.
“When I was standing on
the Golan and looked south, I did not see occupied territories – I
saw Israel.”
Acknowledging that the U.S.
is often accused of obsessive bias for Israel, DeLay said “our
bias saved Europe twice in the last century. We have bias for
countries of freedom.”
As for a peace process,
DeLay said Israel should not negotiate with terrorists. “As long
as Palestinians pursue a policy to destroy Israel, there is nothing
to negotiate.”
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