Poll: 49% of Americans blame pro-Palestinian activists for flotilla deaths

[Fozzledick]

Nearly half - 49 percent - of likely U.S. voters believe that pro-Palestinian activists were to blame for the deaths that occurred when the Israel Defense Forces raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last week, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Only 19 percent believe that Israel was to blame. Another 32 percent said they were not sure.

...

49 percent of U.S. voters agreed that, generally speaking, most countries are too critical of Israel. 21 percent said countries are not critical enough and 17 percent said neither.

Israel is one of only five countries that a majority of Americans are willing to defend militarily.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/poll-49-of-americans-blame-pro-palestinian-activists-for-flotilla-deaths-1.294953

[MindandSoul]

1. That's too bad! That means we are increasingly dependent on Israel's wits!

[Zoeisright]

2. That explains George Bush.

[backscatter712]

3. It's an Assmussen poll.

which is to say it's a borderline push-poll.

[ColesCountyDem]

4. Not surprising.

The 99.9% of Americans who Americans who've never even heard of DU, much less posted here, could be reasonably expected to split on the question of responsibility. It's not as black-and-white an issue outside of DU as it is at DU.

[backscatter712]

5. Yep. We're talking about the 49% who get their "information" about this...

from FAKES News...

[EFerrari]

6. DU is usually ahead of the curve on most current events.

Sometimes by hours, sometimes by much longer than that.

[BootinUp]

7. DU has its share of nutballs who think they

are ahead of the curve, but lost their way.

[EFerrari]

16. I agree with that.

:)

[BootinUp]

17. lol.

shit, we agree on somthin. :hi:

[ColesCountyDem]

19. As they say back home in the hills of Southern Illinois,

"Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then".

;)

[lumpy]

8. I don't believe any word that comes out of Israel, whether by

their newspapers, their politicians or their apologists in the US.

[aranthus]

10. At least you're honest about your bias. n/t

[aranthus]

9. As with most polls, it isn't very nuanced, which promotes simplistic findings.

Is it true that responsibility for the incident lies 100% on one side or the other? Get real.

[BootinUp]

11. There is another question to consider

49 percent of U.S. voters agreed that, generally speaking, most countries are too critical of Israel. 21 percent said countries are not critical enough and 17 percent said neither.

[ColesCountyDem]

18. That's another reason why the result didn't surprise me.

We also need to bear in mind that the average American does feel that we have a 'special relationship' with Israel, as indeed we do. Whether it should be as strong as it is is another question entirely.

[azurnoir]

12. Didn't 49% of Americans think Iraq was responsible for 9/11 too? n/t

[frylock]

13. propaganda works..

who knew?

[subsuelo]

14. they need to add another question to these polls.

Q. How much corporate news programming to you expose yourself to, on average?

[Prometheus Bound]

15. Seems so. Even shitty propaganda.

Doesn't seem to matter.

[Wizard777]

20. We should give them a sweet taste of Israel.

Revoke their citizenship and deport them for supporting a foreign cause.

[LVZ]

21. Rasmussen - the best polling "results" that money can buy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11447809@N08/4689214974/

[Jefferson23]

22. That is great, LOL.

[depakid]

23. Americans are subject to so much propganda- just like this OP- that they don't know which way is up

the rest of the world sees it for what it is.