In
its annual survey of American Jewry published last October, the
American Jewish Committee found that 75 percent of American Jews agree
with the statement, “The goal of the Arabs is not a peaceful two-state
agreement with Israel, but rather the destruction of Israel.”
And yet, American Jews supported the establishment of a Palestinian state 50% to 47%.
Next
week over 10,000 predominantly Jewish American supporters of Israel
will gather in Washington at AIPAC’s annual policy conference. Given
their high commitment to Israel, probably most of those gathered belong
to the 47% of American Jews who opposed Palestinian statehood.
Yet
at the conference they will embrace the two-state formula. And on March
4 they will go up to Capitol Hill and tell their representatives that
they support it.
They
will do so not because they are addled. They will do so because for the
past 20 years all they have heard is that Israel has no alternative to
the two-state plan.
Israel’s
fervent and committed supporters at AIPAC have been told that Israel
needs a Palestinian state more than the PLO does. Only by bringing such a
state into existence in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem can Israel get the
Palestinian demographic albatross off its neck.
These
committed supporters of the Jewish state have been sternly lectured
that Israel is doomed if it doesn’t give the Palestinians an outlet for
their political impulses outside of Israel, because within a year or two
there will be more Palestinians than Israelis west of the Jordan.
The
same day AIPAC’s delegates meet with members of both houses of
Congress, my new book, The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace
in the Middle East will be released by Crown Forum, a division of Random
House.
In my book, I show that the demographic time bomb is a dud, and a malicious one at that.
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