Am I Israeli?

I'm certainly Jewish. But Phoebe Maltz tries once again to convince me I'm also Israeli, even though nobody in my family's lived there for over a thousand years:

While few American or other Diaspora Jews have actual, ancestral roots in the modern state of Israel, all have such roots in a Jewish nation as perceived by those of earlier generations. I've written about this before, but to reiterate: even if your grandparents lived in Eastern Europe and wouldn't have known what to make of zatar or tehina, the nation they were a part of is now based in a specific geographic locale, and that is Israel.

This seems question-begging. The number of Jewish people still living in the traditional Eastern European heartland is disputed, but the State Department says there are 600,000 to a million in Russia plus, presumably, more in Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, etc. Be that as it may, why isn't the geographical basis of the "Jewish nation" right here in North America where I live? There are slightly more Jews in North America than there are in Israel and significantly more Ashkenazim.