More Americans say they sympathize with Israelis than Palestinians in the current conflict in the Middle East, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll finds. CONT. Mark Murray, NBC News Read more »
Religion Plays Large Role in Americans’ Support for Israelis
Religious Americans are significantly more likely than less religious Americans to be sympathetic to the Israelis in the Middle East situation. Over the past 14 years, on average, 66% of Americans who attend church weekly or almost every week are sympathetic to the Israelis, compared with 13% who are sympathetic […] Read more »
U.S. Public Opinion on the Israel-Hamas Conflict Has Little to Do with the Conflict Itself
The latest fighting between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza has now gone on for almost a month. In contrast to public opinion in much of the rest of the world, yet consistent with past outbreaks of Palestinian-Israeli violence, the American public consistently supports the Israeli government’s policies. … […] Read more »
Obama Rated Poorly on Mideast Conflict
Barack Obama falls short of majority approval for his handling of two of the world’s prime hotspots in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, with an especially weak rating for his work on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. CONT. Ryan Struyk, ABC News Read more »
Israel is a lot like us
The death toll in Syria recently surpassed 170,000; in Gaza it topped 1,000. Although each of these individual deaths is a tragedy of infinite proportions, Israel’s supporters often ask why there is such disproportionate focus on the far fewer casualties in its war and so little, relatively speaking, on the […] Read more »
Young Americans take a dim view of Israel’s actions
The United States is a politically polarized country. But when it comes to views of what’s happening in Israel, partisanship has nothing on age. A new Pew Research Center poll is the second in the past week to show a huge generational split on the current conflict in Gaza. While […] Read more »