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Poll: Americans’ Support for «Israel» Falls to Lowest Point in a Decade

Poll: Americans’ Support for «Israel» Falls to Lowest Point in a Decade
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By Staff, Agencies

Support for “Israel” in the American public is at its lowest point in a decade, according new Gallup poll released Wednesday, with a whopping decline among self-identified Republicans who said they sympathized more with "Israelis" than Palestinians.

Whereas 65 percent of Americans said they were “more sympathetic” to the “Israeli” entity over the Palestinians in 2018, 59% said the same in 2019, marking a six point drop. That decline is the biggest over a one-year period in the history of the poll, which began in 2001. The number of Americans who said they sympathized more with the Palestinian, however, went unchanged over the last year, remaining at 21%.

The 2019 survey found that the decline in sympathy for the entity extended to both Democrats and Republicans. While support for the entity among Democrats dropped by 6%, Republican support declined by 13%, a staggering figure in light of Republican President Donald Trump’s cultivation of an intensely close relationship with “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The percentage of Republicans saying they sympathize more with Israel in the conflict fell from an all-time high of 87% in 2018 to 76% today,” the poll said.

The percentage of people who identified as political independents remained the same over the last year, with 60% sympathizing more with the “Israeli” entity.

Last year’s survey came as the administration was preparing to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to al-Quds [Jerusalem], which infuriated Palestinians.

Since Trump officially recognized al-Quds as the entity’s so-called capital in December 2017, and subsequently moved the embassy there, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to engage with the White House, which he said had compromised its ability to act as an honest mediator in any negotiations.

In ostensible retaliation for the Palestinians refusal to work with Trump’s diplomatic team, which has been trying to broker an “Israeli”-Palestinian accord, and in order to exact pressure to return them to the negotiating table, Trump cut American aid to the PA, the East al-Quds Hospital Network, and even “Israeli”-Palestinian coexistence agencies.

Gallup’s survey interviewed 1,016 adults from February 1 to 10; it has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

The poll was conducted amid an intense controversy regarding the US-“Israel” relationship in Congress.

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