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Mad Dean and Scores of Fellow House and Senate Dems This Week Echo PA’s Abbas – Time for Us U.S. Jews To Stand Up

#1342 October 4, 2026

Mad Dean and Scores of Fellow House and Senate Dems This Week Echo PA’s Abbas – Time for Us U.S. Jews To Stand Up

WHILE YOU STAND ON ONE LEG: Proceedings in both the U.S. House and Senate this week were harshly anti-Israel, manifesting abandonment of our People’s Jewish national home by the Dems.  We mustn’t just avert our eyes.

These were the words of the Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas to the UN last week:

“… Abbas told the UN that Israeli policies – in particular the illegal expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank – threatened ‘the very life and existence of the Palestinian people on their homeland.  

“He also said it jeopardised the two-state solution, which is an internationally backed formula for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”  [emphasis added]

And now this week here are similar words coming inter alia from my own Congresswoman, Mad Dean, a bit closer to home.

In an article this week titled ‘West Bank is Israel’s Weak Point’: US Sanctions Pressure Grows Ahead of Israeli Election, Ynet’s sub-head warned:

“Nearly 40 House Democrats back legislation targeting settlement expansion, while a Senate measure fell just short; sources familiar with Washington ties say future pressure could intensify depending on Israel’s next government” [emphasis added]

This “Stop the Settlements Act” introduced by six House Dems, including my own Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, carried “support from nearly 40 Democratic lawmakers, including figures associated with the party’s mainstream rather than only its progressive wing.” [emphasis added]

According to a “One Pager” summary put out by one of the sponsors:

“The Stop the Settlements Act would stop the construction of new settlements or expansion of existing Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank and Gaza through the use of sanctions and a prohibition on the importation of goods made in these settlements and outposts. This would mirror and complement efforts announced or being implemented by countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Canada, the Netherlands, and Spain.

“Stopping the construction of new settlements or expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza would protect Palestinians from dispossession of their land and help create a pathway to peace, where both Israelis and Palestinians are able to fully exercise their right to self determination.”

Add to your worries, a separate resolution in the Senate this week was narrowly defeated 51-47.  All Democrats except Fetterman voted for the measure, which “would have required the State Department to submit a report within 30 days on the deaths of nine U.S. citizens in incidents involving Israeli settlers or security forces since 2022, as well as on the detention of Palestinian children.” 

Ynet: “Dr. Kobi Barda, an expert on U.S. politics, reacted to the developments on X: ‘I don’t even want to think about the blood bath waiting for us after the midterms. I don’t believe we’ve reached the bottom yet.’”

Bottom Line

Go back and reread those two indented paragraphs above of that “One Pager” summary of the House bill.  For us, what all this comes down to is this: We have to reject this whole “West Bank … settlements … Palestinians’ land … two-state solution” scenario in its entirety. 

*** “West Bank,” religiously intoned by the world and sacreligiously by us, is not a synonym but a Jew-expunging antonym of “Judea-Samaria.” Yes, “Judea and Samaria” is “the biblical name of the West Bank,” as deceptively reiterated ad nauseam by the media, but what the media doesn’t tell readers is that these Hebrew-origin names remained in use for 3,000 years, including by the UN itself in 1947 – “The boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts on the Jordan River….”  Stop saying “West Bank.”

*** “Settlements” in the Israeli-Arab context is a Dirty Word.  The one time my less-than-Israel-loving hometown paper, The Philadelphia Inquisitor, thoughtlessly said Israel attacked “Palestinian settlements,” it instantly withdrew it, explaining “the attacks were directed at Palestinian towns and refugee camps.” Actually, those attacks were directed at terrorists IN those towns and camps, but such complete “Clearing the Record” would be a bit too far for our Inq.  Israel and us, stop calling Israeli communities beyond the 1949 ceasefire lines “settlements.”

*** “Palestinians’ Land”: No, it’s not.  Shades of the Holy Roman Empire, “Occupied Palestinian Territory” is neither “occupied,” nor “Palestinian,” nor a “Territory.”  “The Palestinians” have never ruled Palestine (named by the Romans in memory of the long-gone Philistines, not Arafat’s ancestors) ever. Israel has ruled it (Judah, Judaea, Israel) three times. The 1949 ceasefire lines, miscalled by the Inq et ilk “Israel’s 1967 borders,” didn’t follow (nonexistent) geographical features, just marked where invader Jordan’s and defender Israel’s soldiers in 1949 then stood. 

*** “The Two-State Solution,” ripping from Israel historic Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria biblical hill country heartland would render our people’s Jewish national home an indefensible Jewishly meaningless Jewish national ghetto.

What this week’s House and Senate proceedings painfully clearly show is that the Democratic Party – two score House Dems, including “associated with the party’s mainstream rather than only its progressive wing,” including my own Rep, Mad Dean, and all but one Senate Dem – have deserted our people’s homeland of Israel and are supporting its foes. 

GOP supporters of Israel must get out next month and vote. But Republican that I am, I do not ask you grassroots Jewish Dems to desert your party for mine.  I ask you to stay and stand there and fight.  Mad Dean’s sponsoring of this week’s “Stop the Settlements Act” isn’t her first slap at us.  When Bibi addressed the U.S. Congress in pre-election 2024, she pointedly absented herself from his speech.  I ask you, in your own self-interest and self-respect, to consider not voting for her and telling her and her Party why.