• Decision-makers and opinion-shapers around the world argue that if Israel refuses to accept a two-state solution according to the version promoted by the Palestinians and their supporters, it will have to choose between being Jewish and being democratic. It would inevitably have to either integrate the Palestinian population as part of a one-state solution and thus lose its Jewish majority and Jewish identity or, alternatively, deprive Palestinians of full citizenship and full rights and then lose its democratic nature.

• This theory assumes that the relevant areas Israel took under its control in 1967 are “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” This supposition is based on a plethora of annual, legally flawed, politically-generated, non-binding UN resolutions.

• Most Israelis consider these warnings about the inevitable need to choose between being Jewish or being democratic and the urgent messages to Israel “to save itself” as misguided, dangerous, patronizing, condescending, and undemocratic, as well as indicative of gross ignorance of the situation in Israel and disregard for the rights of the Jewish people.

• Most Israelis would gladly change the status quo by reaching an agreement with the Palestinians, but an agreement that would guarantee a different outcome than the one demanded by the Palestinians and their supporters. The people of Israel insist on an agreement that includes Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, as well as addressing Israel’s security concerns.

• Most of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza already live under Palestinian rule, and no one intends to dismantle the two entities that govern them. In these areas, the PA and Hamas, respectively, make all the political decisions, carry out elections at their own will, issue their own laws, and care for the needs of the population.

• The entire thesis of the need to transfer Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem to Palestinian control to protect Israel from losing its Jewish or democratic identity ignores not only Israel’s justified security needs but also the historical and legal rights and aspirations that stand at the core of Zionism.

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