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World’s Against Us, So What Should We U.S. Jews Do?  Stand By Our Homeland and People

#1286 September 14, 2025

WHILE YOU STAND ON ONE LEG: What a week … anniversary of 9/11, assassination of inspiring influential American voice Charlie Kirk, UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopting “Two-States.”  What’s Jews’ appropriate response to that last?  Bibi said it best.

World’s Against Us, So What Should We U.S. Jews Do?  Stand By Our Homeland and People

“We are going to fulfill our promise that there will be no Palestinian state; this place belongs to us.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel,

Thursday, September 11, 2025 (emphasis added)

“UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement on the Question of Palestine and the implementation of the Two-State Solution.”

UN News official site

Friday, September 12, 2025

(Voting Result: In Favor 142, Against 10, Abstain 12)

(emphasis added?)

Those of you who’ve been reading these weekly emails of mine for more than a week know that I regard the “two-state solution” – ripping from Israel defensible Judea-Samaria heartland and historic Jerusalem – as the gravest threat it has faced, and from my persistence in this weekly emailing, 24 years now, that I regard support of our brethren in Israel by us grassroots U.S. Jews, our American Jewish street, as indispensable to our homeland and people surviving this threat.

So when subscribers hereto suggested last year I compile “the best” currently relevant of these emails into a book, organized by subject, I signed up with a professional publishing firm, Writer Cosmos. It put out on Amazon a professional-looking hardback, paperback and Kindle, by Jerome R. Verlin, Here & Now: U.S. Jews and the Issues Confronting Us. Part of the deal is a website.

But what’s a website “for a book”?  A set of static pages, not breaking-news commentary posts, worth maybe one curious visit?  So I’m soliciting for this website (out there now in a WIP state) by fellow grassrootsniks contributions on all sides of current issues strongly affecting American and Israeli Jews.  (You don’t need to be a web guru to get your view out there, just email me a post for or against an issue affecting us and for or against my own view on it, which, if approved for form, not agreement, I’ll post in your name or if you prefer nom de plume.  We’ll seek back-and-forth comment threads.) 

I want to start with a pair of posts, now in the draft exchange stage, by me and a journalist friend (why, of course, some of my friends are journalists) with our differing views on (so what else?) the “two-state solution.”  I’m utterly against, he’s for, not now but later when mutual hatreds cool. 

One fault he finds with my view is “I’m still fighting the last war,” denying that warring sides’ beliefs evolve over time.  He’s more right about me than he knows. I don’t just believe Israelis are still fighting just one war, their War of Independence, in which 1948, ‘56, ‘67, ‘73 … are just battles.  I believe our till-now homeless Jewish people’s been fighting one long war, against us as Jews, for two thousand years.

Take France [voted for “two-states” this week in UN], for example, co-instigator with “Saudi” Arabia of what Israel called “theater” this week in the UN. Back in pre-Israel days, a secular Jewish Viennese playwright and journalist assigned to cover the Dreyfus trial was so shaken by howls in liberal Paris not of “Kill the [falsely accused] traitor!” but of “Kill the Jew!” that he wrote a book, The Jewish State.  In a preface to the edition I have Chaim Weizmann called it a partly naïve little book, but it launched a thousand ships, ok most of them British destroyers.

So let’s say a word about Britain [hawks “two-states” but abstained in UN] and us Jews.  Specifically, Britain, Trustee of the Palestine Mandate, middle-fingered its duties under that Mandate by holding millions of Jewish homeland-seeking European Jews’ arms behind their back before, during and after the Holocaust, while Germany murdered them.  If you’d read one book on Holocaust Jews, I’d have it be on Aliyah Bet, that superhuman effort of Palestinian Jews and incredibly Holocaust survivors themselves to reach our homeland in the face of Britain’s even post-Holocaust anti-Jewish blockade. 

And then there’s Spain [voted for “two-states” in UN, but didn’t stop there, see, e.g., Algemeiner headline, this Thursday, 9/11/25, Spanish PM Laments Lack of Nuclear Weapons Preventing Spain From Stopping Israel in Gaza War] – genocide, anyone?  Spanish Inquisition, anyone?

A few years ago, when Lee and I gave our media bias PowerPoint talk to a group at a huge international Christian group’s headquarters, we were asked in the Q&A, “Do American Jews regard the U.S. as exceptional?”  We said our people has an institutional memory extending back three millennia.  We regard America as unique in accepting us as part of its people. But that said, true as it is, the United States [which, thankfully, voted against at UN], for all its high virtues, is not free of blemishes, as Native Americans, descendants of African slaves and alas we Jews can tell you.  

Trump’s first term Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, wrote in his new book, One Jewish State (p. 78): “I have referred to this resolution [UNSC #2334] on many occasions as the greatest betrayal of Israel by a U.S. President (Obama) [parenthetical original] in history.”  But that wasn’t a U.S. President’s biggest betrayal of Jews. 

That Greatest Portrayal mantle resides on the shoulders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  See, e.g., chapter 20 of Yoram Kaniuk’s bio of Yossi Harel, Commander of the Exodus, summarizing Wyman’s The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945:

“… the two great democracies, the United States and Great Britain, were, in the words of an official of the American Treasury Department, ‘deeply committed not to save the Jews.’”

Bottom Line

Repeatedly in these weekly emails, I couch my opposition to “two-states” not that the Palestinian Arabs themselves and as represented by hostage-holding Hamas and Pay-For-Slay Palestinian Authority aren’t ready for peace, but that the land of Israel is historically, legally, indispensably and equitably our Jewish people’s homeland, not that of Arabs, who have eastern Palestine, Jordan.  But this week Bibi succinctly said it best:  There won’t be a Palestinian state inside the land of Israel because “This Place Belongs To Us.”

Regards,

Jerry

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