Poll: American Voters’ Support Of Israel Drops

[Purveyor]

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- American voters' support for Israel has dropped 20 percent in the past nine months, a new survey found.

Some 49 percent of American voters call themselves supporters of Israel, down from 69 percent last September, according to the poll conducted for The Israel Project.

The number of voters who called themselves undecided rose during that same period, and the number of Palestinian supporters remained steady at 7 percent. The number of Israel supporters hit a low of 38 percent immediately following the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, with an equal rise in undecided voters.

The poll was conducted among 800 registered voters on June 2 and 3 by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. It has not been officially released by The Israel Project, but was leaked to the media by someone who received the numbers the day after the poll was completed on Thursday.

According to the poll, some 44 percent of voters believe the United States should support Israel, down from 69 percent a year ago. Some 5 percent of voters believe the United States should support the Palestinians, with 32 percent undecided.

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JTA: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/15/1005902/poll-american-voters-suport-of-israel-drops

[denverbill]

1. They aren't making me any happier with them, for sure.

Personally, I see little difference between Israel's treatment of Gaza and Germany's treatment of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw during WWII. Maybe the food rations in Gaza are slightly better, but I'm not sure they are much better.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. If you don't see a difference, I suggest a history book.

Then again, that interferes with the continued bullshit "Israel = Nazi" meme.

[abq e streeter]

3. Thank you for replying to the above post. Much more civil than I would have been

I find statements like that , which sadly come from mainly ,if not exclusively the left, to be "our side's" version of holocaust denial. Inexcusably ignorant at best;more like flat out sickening though.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. No prob! It's all the newest rage on the "left."

It isn't Holocaust denial, it is Holocaust minimizing. It's generally involves, but is not always limited to, discussions about Israel. It advances the "Israelis are Nazis" propaganda. It usually runs hand-in-hand with "zionism is racism" and "Israel is an apartheid regime." All favorites among the "educated" left.

[Jim Sagle]

5. But ISN'T Israel an apartheid regime? After all, Jimmeh Carter said so!

;)

[wuvuj]

6. Right on....

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[trungpa ricochet]

7. Criticism of Israel is forbidden

Those who are horrified by Israel's treatment of Palestinians, in Gaza for instance, and voice their concern, are instantly called anti-semitic by the official Web watchdogs of the Likud Party. (Horace...how's it hangin', darling?) Be sure and refrain from calling the Israelis cruel or hypocritical. To do so would violate the rules of Israeli democracy.:sarcasm:

[Beacool]

8. You must be jesting!!!

:wow: