You are right about _passive_ public opinion. Passive public opinion has been more or less on "your" side for decades; even _passive_ opinion among Jews has been on your side.
But the Zionists couldn't care less!
And they couldn't care less because u.s. leaders couldn't care less. They haven't given a shit about public opinion since 'they' won the ideological war over "the '60s," which have been safely "bottled up" as merely a generational conflict of rebellious youth or of nutcases like the Panthers.
Passive public opinion has no effect on state policy.
Carrol