Retired Israeli Naval Officer On Naivete of Supporting “Two-States”
October 3, 2026
JERRY, I HAVE A VERY SPECIAL FRIEND, HIS NAME IS ZEMER, HE WAS AN OFFICER IN THE IDF, A NAVY SEAL, HE IS LIKE US, POLITICALLY RIGHT OF CENTER, NEITHER A DEGREE LESS, NEITHER A DEGREE MORE, HE SAYS LIKE THIS, “I’M FIRST A JEW AND THEN I AM A ZIONIST AND THEN I’M AN ISRAELI!”
ON THE QUESTION OF DUAL LOYALTY, I HAVE NO PROBLEM SAYING WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE, FIRST I AM A JEW, AND SECONDLY, I AM A ZIONIST AND THIRDLY, I AM AN AMERICAN, BUT BEING A JEW IS FIRST AND FOREMOST AND CANNOT BE COMPROMISED AND WILL NOT BE COMPROMISED
THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF BEING A JEW, THE WORDS OF DANIEL PEARL, THE JOURNALIST, WHO BEFORE BEING MURDERED BY MOSLEM TERRORISTS IN PAKISTAN SAID, ‘MY FATHER IS JEWISH, MY MOTHER IS JEWISH, I AM JEWISH.” THESE SAME WORDS ARE ON THE TOMBSTONE OF MAYOR ED KOCH OF NEW YORK CITY, WHO LEFT INSTRUCTIONS IN HIS WILL FOR THESE WORDS TO BE ENGRAVED ON HIS TOMBSTONE, NEITHER DANIEL PEARL NOR ED KOCH WERE RELIGIOUS JEWS, FOR WHATEVER THAT EXPRESSION IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN, BUT THEY CONCLUDED THEIR LIVES WITH A DECLARATION OF ABSOLUTE AND UNAMBIGUOUS JEWISH IDENTITY
OUR HISTORY STARTED WITH THE JEWISH BIBLE, OUR JOURNEY IN THESE LAST THOUSANDS OF YEARS HAS TAKEN OUR PEOPLE TO ENDLESS PLACES ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH, NONE OF WHICH GRANTED US THE RIGHT TO BE THEIR CITIZENS UNTIL FRANCE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION LIBERATED THE JEWS SEPTEMBER 27, 1791, WHICH THEODORE HERZL FOUND OUT APPROXIMATELY 100 YEARS LATER, THAT THE OFFICIAL CITIZENSHIP DIDN’T INCLUDE LIBERATION FROM JEW HATRED, AS PARIS EXPLODED IN A VOLUME OF JEW HATRED AT THE TIME OF THE DREYFUSS AFFAIR. HERZL COULDN’T GET OVER THE FACT THAT FRANCE, THE BIRTHPLACE OF EGALITE, LIBERTE AND FRATERNITE, THE MASSES WERE SCREAMING ‘KILL THE JEW’
GETTING BACK TO MY DEAR FRIEND ZEMER, HE CALLED ME LAST WEEK AND SAID TO ME LIKE THIS, ‘MYRON, WORSE THAN IRAN ACHIEVING A NUCLEAR BOMB IS THE IDEA OF TWO STATES, THE GRANTING TO THE PALESTINIAN ARABS THE RIGHT TO HAVE THEIR OWN SOVEREIGN STATE. A PALESTINIAN STATE NEXT TO OUR JEWISH STATE IS THE SAME AS COMMITTING SUICIDE.
WE ALL KNOW THE REASON FOR OPPOSING TWO STATES. THE REASON FOR OPPOSITION TO GIVING THE ARABS A PALESTINIAN STATE ARE MANY, INCLUDING JUDEA AND SAMARIA ARE HISTORICAL JEWISH HOMELAND, BUT THE PRINCIPAL REASON TO NEVER ALLOW THE ARABS TO HAVE A PALESTINIAN STATE IS BECAUSE THE PALESTINIAN ARAB IS A F************* SAVAGE……DO WE NEED ANY BETTER PROOF THAN 7TH OF OCTOBER THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF GAZA ULULATED WITH GREAT JOY AND HANDED OUT CANDIES THAT DAY UPON BEING TOLD THAT THEIR SO CALLED BRAVE SOLDIERS BUTCHERED, SAVAGED, RIPPED APART, BURNED, BEHEADED, RAPED AND KILLED 1,200 INNOCENT JEWS, WHO WERE EITHER AT A DANCE FESTIVAL OR PREPARING TO GO TO THE SYNAGOGUE TO CELEBRATE LAST DAY OF THE HOLIDAY OF SUKKOTH ON THE SABBATH OR HANGING OUT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS?
ME (Jerry): Myron, thank you for forwarding this wisdom of your Israeli naval commando officer special friend. Judea-Samaria and, G-d knows, historic Jerusalem, are the heart & soul of our Jewish people’s national home. Without them, how Jewishly meaningful would it be? And there are no geographical separators west of the Jordan that could separate the perpetrators of Oct. 7’s celebrated savage pogrom from our homeland’s people. Could there be a more self-inflicted disregarding of Never Again than we ourselves acquiescing in a Palestinian Arab state within our land of Israel itself?
And Palestinian Arabs HAVE an inside-Palestine homeland – Jew-free Jordan, where they’re the majority, sitting on three-quarters of Mandated Palestine. Yes, some of their parents/grandparents once lived west of the River, just as the parents/grandparents and earlier ancestors of today’s largest stream of Israelis, Mizrahis, lived for centuries indigenously in vast Arab lands.