We Grassroots U.S. Jews Need To Stand With Israelis in Opposing “Two-States”
#1336 August 23, 2026
The world is aggressively pushing a “two-state solution.” We U.S. Jewish grassroots need to stand with Israelis against it and explain to two-staters the injustice and danger to US ALL of that “solution.”
We Grassroots U.S. Jews Need To Stand With Israelis in Opposing “Two-States”
The Struggle for Israel’s Sovereign Rebirth is Still Going On
POP QUIZ, Girls & Boys! Question #1 (all 100 points): How many wars has Israel fought and why does it matter?
Likely answer: “Well, let’s see … the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 ….”
Real answer: Those were battles. Today’s State of Israel has fought only one war – its War of Independence, and it’s still being fought. It’s a struggle of seminal Jewish history import. We American Jews share that import and are personally at risk and must support securely achieving our Jewish people’s homeland’s sovereign rebirth.
The world over, we hear “Israel has no right to exist … that its heart & soul, historic Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria heartland, are “occupied Palestinian territory,” that applying sovereignty is “annexation” (taking over another country’s land). This week Israel’s construction tenders for E1 between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem “has prompted joint condemnation from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway,” as it would “undermine the prospect of the two-state solution” (which, yes, Israeli Minister Smotrich has said that it would). (Aljazeera, Thursday, 8/21/26); … etc., etc.
We comparatively secure American Jews have to understand the immensity of our Jewish homeland’s sovereign rebirth in our time, that the struggle for its security is relentlessly still going on and that achieving its security is as critical for us as for Israelis themselves and persecuted Jews wherever they are.
Charles Krauthammer understood Israel’s rebirth’s significance, saying today’s Jews live in a “miraculous age,” that of the rebirth of Jewish homeland sovereignty after eighteen hundred years.
David Ben-Gurion understood, calling on us Jews of the world [i.e., mostly of these United States] to stand by just-reborn Israel in the great struggle for fulfillment of the Dream of Generations for its sovereign redemption.
Every Jew who ever died in a Holocaust, an Inquisition, a pogrom dreamed the Dream Ben-Gurion referenced. And so did all who lived generation after generation in never-treating-Jews-as-Europeans Europe and as sometimes-tolerated but always-inferior dhimmis in Muslim lands. Apartheid, anyone? Antisemitism exists today as in periods past in America, and even for us being a people with a homeland helps.
So How’s U.S. Jewry Doing Standing By Israel?
Not so well. A devastating Israel National News op-ed by Ronn Torossian this Monday, 8/17/26, Jews Who Funded Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil, cites an AP-NORC poll
*** that more American Jews favor Mamdani (44% favorable!) than Netanyahu (59% unfavorable);
*** that “thirty percent believe the false accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza”;
*** that “thirty-eight percent say the U.S. is too supportive of Israel”;
*** that “just 42% support continued military operations in Gaza.”
“These numbers,” the op-ed says, “were built – deliberately, over decades – by a progressive Jewish infrastructure funded by Diaspora liberal Jews, including Steven Spielberg [!] and George Soros,” citing, e.g., ironically a Schindler’s List profits’ source.
And there’s a deeper into grassroots influencing source. A July Torossian INN op-ed, American Reform leadership does not speak for the Jewish People, sub-headlined
“Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs, speaks for radical American Ashkenazis, not the entire Jewish People. He sits on the board of the New Israel Fund and on the rabbinic cabinet of J Street, both antagonistic to the Jewish State. Opinion”
contains a long list of the Reform leadership’s criticisms of Israel’s actions.
On the positive side, an August 8 Jerusalem Post op-ed, Attacking the Pro-Israel Lobby Has Become the Acceptable Way To Attack Jews, cites among pro-Israel organizations AIPAC, CUFI, RJC and ZOA.
So What’s a Grassroots U.S. Jew To Do?
I write grassroots-to-grassroots. I would have you stand with the big majority of Israelis against “two-states,” the determinative Jewish homeland issue of our time. Daily Alert last Sunday, 8/16/26:
“Peace Index: 24% of Israeli Jews Support the Two-State Solution
“According to Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index survey of Israeli public opinion conducted on July 26-30, 2026, only 12% of Jewish respondents believe that negotiations will lead to peace in the coming years. 24% of the Jewish public support the two-state solution, but only 13% believe it has a chance of being achieved in the foreseeable future.
“66% of the Jewish public support the expansion of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria based on security needs, while 25% oppose this.” (Tel Aviv University)
A July Tel Aviv University poll also found that only barely a quarter of Israelis support a “two-state solution,” and a Jerusalem Post article Wednesday this week, 8/20/26, headlined
“In Meeting With Kushner, Netanyahu Makes ‘Very Clear, In No Uncertain Words, that he is against a Palestinian State”
in which he says “the vast majority of Israelis are against.” [emphasis added]
Explain one-on-one to our grassroots U.S. Jews who favor “two-states” how Mort Klein by me rightly explains the fallacy and danger in that (ZOA.org, What Does It Mean To Be Pro-Israel in 2025):
“… I believe that those who still want a Palestinian Arab state in Gaza and/or Judea-Samaria and/or Jerusalem are either ill-informed, delusional (in that they fail to understand or appreciate the real threat) or anti-Israel. While I understand that someone who wants a Palestinian state may be well-intentioned or believe that he is pro-Israel, in fact promoting a Palestinian Arab state is not a pro-Israel position. The Israeli people understand that such a state would be an existential threat to Israel and every Jew. Indeed, in July 2024, the Knesset voted overwhelmingly to reject a Palestinian Arab state, which only the nine Arab Knesset members opposed.” [emphasis added]
Ripping from Israel historic Jerusalem and defensible Judea-Samaria historic heartland would wither our Jewish national home into an indefensible, Jewishly meaningless Jewish national ghetto. With what’s rightly ours, and with all we’ve been through and are all going through now, no thanks.
BRUCE SLOAN:
Leaders can only lead when they have followers who support them.
1. Refuse to contribute to organizations that are anti-Jewish, Israel, Zionism, etc. regardless of whether they are political, social, or religious.
2. VOTE against those with platforms as above.
3. Never stop learning. Not just the facts, but also defense against the lies.
4. Be able and ready to physically defend yourself, based on individual capabilities – mace, Krav Maga, firearm.
RAINER IN GERMANY:
Hi Jerry, I always wonder if those Jewish persons (who are in the US language incomprehensibly called “liberal” instead of clearly being named what they are: “left leaning”, “leftists”, “leftist radicals” or “left extremists” depending on their state of delusion) have ever produced a positive outcome for the Jewish community anytime in history and anywhere in the world? Fine if there were enough convincing examples which I as an external but much interested observer profoundly doubt. So how would one count on a certain bright outcome through their imaginations this time?
Kol tov for your unwavering work & am Israel chai !
ME (Jerry): We’re still living the consequences of the Oslo Accords and the 2005 evacuation of Gaza. But not just for us such policies haven’t worked. A great American Indian chief appeared to Israeli PM Shamir in a dream, saying “Yitzhak, Let me tell you about Land For Peace.”