Band-Aids not Bombs: Americans Want a Radically Different Israel-Palestine Approach

Yet Americans cannot get the foreign policy they want and deserve

The American elite continues to pursue a Middle Eastern foreign policy that the American public, on both sides of the political spectrum, is strongly at odds with.

The US has recently announced that it will dismantle its $230 million dollar aid pier for Gaza after continued logistical, weather, and operational issues. This will cut off what little aid from the West is flowing into Palestine, a region where 96% of the population already faces food insecurity and more than 500,000 people are on the verge of falling into a modern-day famine.

50% of Americans favor providing Palestine with humanitarian aid while at the same time believing that America should step out of active involvement in both the military and diplomatic spheres surrounding this conflict, according to Pew polling from March 2024. Only 20% of Americans oppose providing Palestine with aid.

Additionally, few Americans want to be bogged down in dealing with the regional conflict. Only 20% of Americans want to play a major role in diplomatic negotiations to resolve the conflict while 35% of the American public want to play only a minor role and 27% of Americans want to play no role at all.

The same Pew polling found that just 36% of Americans want to provide Israel with military aid while 35% oppose the provision of aid for Israel and 29% had no strong position. But this Pew polling is far from the only polling on the issue.

A Global Affairs-Ipsos survey, also from March, found that 32% of Americans believe Israel has gone too far in the conflict while just 27% find Israeli actions to be justified. The same poll found that 40% of Americans want to either restrict military aid to Israel, exert diplomatic pressure on the nation to resolve the conflict, or both.

In another poll, also from early 2024, some 53% of Americans stated that they wanted to restrict military aid to Israel and a large majority showed a clear preference for non-engagement while encouraging peace.

This is not surprising, Americans (especially White Americans who pay the lion’s share of taxes) have supplied Israel with extensive resources, financial backing, and moral support for decades with little or nothing to show for it. Israel is, by all accounts, a miserable ally of the United States. Israeli spying, economic espionage, political subversion, and open contempt for the United States show that rather than being among the US’ best of friends Israel belongs in a similar position to China, at least in terms of diplomatic nicety.

And it would appear that White Americans, particularly young White Americans, are catching onto this reality. NORC polling shows that among all racial groups young Whites are the least supportive of the alliance with Israel. In fact, only 27% of Republicans under 30 (over 80% of whom are White) support the so-called State of Israel. This same NORC polling showed that among Whites only those aged 64 and above still held majority support for Israel. This displays an incredible collapse of support for the Zionist state in just a few short months.

Yet, despite this widespread public support for humanitarian aid and a wish to withdraw military support for Israel, the American government is doing the very opposite.

It is the American government that is holding up most of the humanitarian aid for Palestine, not only by dismantling its half-hearted pier project but also by refusing to fund the United Nation’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, an agency that is responsible for everything from medical care, to schooling, to the provision of infant formula within much of Gaza.

Perhaps worse, the American people are receiving new Palestinian neighbors despite the rhetoric about the conflict in the Middle East and in spite of the fact that their government is aiding in the spread of regional instability and the death of Palestinians (again, against the wishes of the American people).

Since the start of the war in Gaza, a significant goal of both Israeli and Western policymakers has been the mass expulsion of Palestinians into the West.

Internal memos from the U.S. federal government reveal that the Biden administration is currently working on a way to bring Palestinians into the United States if they have a connection to the country.

There are more than 170,000 Palestinians in the US, most of whom have large extended families they would be able to sponsor to come to the US.

For months current and former government officials in the US, such as John Bolton, in the EU, and in Israel itself have been lobbying Western states to take in Palestinians.

We have been tracking this development since last year when we wrote "Palestinian Mass Migration, Courtesy of Israel” which has much more detail on the subject.

The will of the American people is clear:

1. No more support for this war and the regional instability it is causing.

2. Provide Palestinians with humanitarian aid, either directly, indirectly, or both.

3. Do not import the problem, foreign populations, or their political grievances into the United States.

Yet, despite these clear desires the American people have not at all been heard by their elite. Worse yet, they have been lambasted as antisemites, and laws have been changed to restrict American freedoms around protesting, speech, and free expression in order to prevent these sentiments from being aired publicly.

American curiosity about this state of affairs will only continue to grow. The American people will only continue to notice that their political elite does not reflect them demographically either.

Already more than 70% of Americans view Jewish people as an organized group that "sticks together" when in competition with other groups.

Nearly 40% of Americans believe "Jews like to be at the head of things" and that "Jews do not share my values".

Wikipedia recently banned the ADL from being used as a source in its articles, citing it as a “generally unreliable” organization when it came to the issues of Israel-Palestine and the topic of antisemitism. Similarly, editorials such as this piece in the Boston Review, have begun to expose the ADL for being a partisan organization used to attack other ethnic groups and the national interest of the United States under the guise of preventing hate speech.

Americans deserve a foreign policy that reflects their interests and nature. A nature that is averse to foreign wars, generous with humanitarian assistance, and unwilling to import the problems of the rest of the world to its shores.

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