ADL Poll: American Support for Israel Remains Solid; Increase in Support for Action to Prevent Iran

[Kurska]

Source: Alpha Trade Finance

The American people's strong support for Israel remains constant and their support for action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power has substantially increased, according to a new nationwide survey released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today.

The survey's findings demonstrate that Americans recognize Israel as a strong and loyal U.S. ally, are skeptical about "peace dividends" that would be realized by Israel stopping all settlement construction and believe that a Palestinian state must not be established until the Palestinians demonstrate a commitment to end violence and accept Israel's legitimacy.

The 2009 Survey of American Attitudes on Israel, The Palestinians and Prospects for Peace in the Middle East, a national telephone survey of 1,200 American adults, was conducted September 26-October 4, 2009 by Marttila Communications of Washington, D.C. and Boston. The margin of error is +/- 2.8%.

"This latest survey of the American people, coming at a time of a full range of challenging issues facing Israel and the region demonstrates anew the breadth and depth of American public support for Israel from a variety of perspectives," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "Americans see Israel as a loyal ally to the U.S., as being very serious about wanting to achieve peace with the Palestinians and as deserving the sympathy of the American people in the conflict with the Palestinians."

Read more: http://finance.alphatrade.com/story/2009-10-26/PRN/200910261114PR_NEWS_USPR_____DC98684.html

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Interesting, especially the parts about Iran.

[Turborama]

1. Have there been any independent polls lately? n/t

[Kurska]

2. The Poll was only commisioned by the ADL, not done by the ADL, but here are other polls

http://www.pollingreport.com/israel.html

None as recent, but there you have it.

Methodology of the above poll

"Marttila Communications, a Washington, DC/Boston-based public opinion research firm, which has conducted ADL's previous surveys, conducted this national telephone survey of 1,747 adults. The base sample is 1,200 plus an oversample of 256 African Americans, and 250 Hispanics, bringing the oversample for both communities to 400 each.

For those questions answered by all 1,200 respondents, the survey results have a margin of error of +/- 2.8%. For many questions, the survey used the technique of "split sampling," a process in which the 1,200 person sample was split into two demographically representative samples of 600 respondents each. For those questions that were answered by 600 respondents, the survey has a margin of error of +/- 4 %.

The purpose of split sampling in the survey was to maximize the number of questions that could be asked, to test different hypotheses about an issue, and to test the impact of different question wording.

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

/PRNewswire--USNewswire -- Oct. 26/

SOURCE Anti-Defamation League"

[Flaneur]

3. Hmmm, I guess I'm out of step with the American people (again).

[question everything]

9. Yup!

[steveradical]

4. Here we go again

Yeah right... 1200 people sampled from Boca Raton, Florida no doubt.

It's a funny thing. Foxman and his ilk keep whining about Palestinians not accepting their "legitimacy"

When have they ever acknowledged the legitimate rights of the Palestinians to exist without suffering under the brutal repression of an Apartheid racist military occupation?

It's not a trick question.

[jaysunb]

5. Welcome to DU

Good first post....atr least in my opinion.

[leftynyc]

6. That you think only Jews

support Israel (I'm guessing that's what you meant about the Boca thing) shows how very little you actually know.

[question everything]

10. You may want to learn some real history, instead of relying

on flaming propaganda,

Here some of it:

In 1947 the UN voted to end the British mandate in Palestine and to establish two states, a Jewish one and an Arab one. The Jews accepted it, the Arabs did not, attacked Israel, Israel won.

Shortly after that, King Abdullah of Trans Jordan annexed the West Bank. Only Pakistan and the UK recognized it, but there was no global cry about the "Poor Palestinians." Egypt was controlling Gaza.

While the people under Jordan rules could become Jordanians citizens, the ones in refugee camps in Gaza and in Lebanon were left to fester with no nationality.

There were about 600,000 Palestinian refugees after Israel's War of Independence in 1948 and a similar number of Jews who fled Arab countries. They became equal citizens in Israel while the Palestinians ones are still sitting in camps.

There are two different UN refugees commissions: one to help settle refugees all over the world, the other, to pump money into Palestinian refugees who have no incentives to leave their camps and to build normal life.

The Arab nations, especially the rich ones with oil have conveniently used the Palestinians plight to divert attention from their autocratic regimes.

In 1967 Jordan and Egypt attacked Israel and Israel won. It always was willing to trade land for peace but Arafat, who took all the money donated into his personal bank account, had no interest in the ho-hum details of running a country. Appearing at the UN with a gun on his belt, creating an image of a "guerrilla" was a lot more to his taste.

In 2005 Israel withdrew from Gaza which immediately was taken over by Hamas, which, first "eliminated" any political rivals and then embarked on daily rocket attacks on Israel, while using civilians as human shield.

And now you can talk about the "poor Palestinians."

[The Stranger]

13. What website did you cut and paste these talking points from?

[steveradical]

14. Oh Silly Me....

How could I have thought that using a Caterpillar Tractor to bulldoze a family's only home and then wiping out their olive orchards on which they rely for a living is out of line? I mean, after all they needed to build the Apartheid Wall through the area and put up some "Jews Only" condos on that stolen land. What was I thinking? Must be some latent anti-Semitism I haven't acknowledged in myself.

[notadmblnd]

11. "My family is on their annual pilgramage to the Holy Land"

"Oh? They're in Israel?"

"No, Boca."

Fran Dresher (The Nanny)

Your post reminded me of an episode I saw recently where Fran was getting her tonsils out and here family wasn't there for her.

[irislake]

7. Tch!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. I got polled once --

it one of the more bizarre of the few phone polling experiences I have ever had. It was when Israel invaded Lebenon a few years back. The first few questions were fairly innocuous, then came one that was phrased in a most interesting way. It was something along these lines: Do you support Israel's actions in Lebanon taken to protect themselves from the groups that want to destroy Israel? It was a completely loaded poll question. When I said "no", the operator actually snapped at me, "No? You don't support Israel?" I told her again that I did not support Israel's move into Lebanon. She then hung up on me. I hadn't gotten the name of the polling organization, so I can't say who was responsible, but I will say I rarely, RARELY get called -- I thought it was very interesting that I got called on this issue. The operator's rather interesting response to me makes me suspect that my very Jewish-sounding last name may have had something to do with my being picked to "poll".

[liskddksil]

12. Definately a push poll

[Kurska]

15. It is amazing how the knives really come over Israel.

No evidence, no direct contradiction of the methodology and no logical reason to assume the poll must be wrong, but because it is positive of Israel IT MUST BE A LIE.

So pathetic, so transparent.