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2/23/15, "Seven in 10 Americans Continue to View Israel Favorably," Gallup Poll, Lydia Saad
"Israel has retained its broadly favorable image in the U.S. over the
past year. Seventy percent of Americans now view that country favorably,
and 62% say they sympathize more with the Israelis than the
Palestinians in the Mideast conflict. By contrast, 17% currently view
the Palestinian Authority favorably, and 16% sympathize more with the
Palestinians.
These attitudes, from Gallup's Feb. 8-11 World Affairs survey, are
unchanged from a year ago, suggesting that neither the evident friction
between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, nor the 50-day conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians
in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip last year, greatly affected how each
is perceived in the U.S."...
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From 2014 to 2015, approval of Israel increased among Republicans and Independents and decreased among Democrats:
2/24/15, "Gallup Records Significant Drop in Democrats’ Sympathy for Israel," CNS News, P. Goodenough
"A Gallup poll
last month found that, while most Jewish Americans continue to identify
as Democrats, the number has been slowly declining since 2008, the
year Obama was elected to the White House.
In 2008, 71 percent of American Jews identified as Democrat; in 2014 the number had dropped to 61 percent....
In 2012, 69 percent of American Jews supported Obama while 30 percent supported his GOP rival, Mitt Romney....
In 2008, 22 percent of American Jews identified as Republicans; in 2014 29 percent did, Gallup reported.
In the 2008 presidential election, Jewish Americans supported Obama
by 78 percent and his opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), by 22
percent....
The proportion of Democrats who sympathize more with Israel than with
Palestinians in the Mideast conflict dropped ten points this year to 48
percent, according to a new poll by Gallup....
By contrast Republican sympathy for Israel over the Palestinians rose
to 83 percent, continuing a trend that has risen from the low 50s in
the late-1990s. Only in its 2010 poll did Gallup record a higher GOP
sympathy for Israel, at 85 percent....
In addition, the percentage of Democrats viewing Israel favorably
also dropped – by 14 points – over the past year, from 74 percent to 60,
the poll found....
When the views of Americans of all political persuasions are taken into
account, since 9/11 Americans have favored Israel by between 59 (2004)
and 72 percent (2014). Over the same period, Americans’ favorable
views of the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) has ranged from a low of 11
percent (2006) to a high of 27 (2005).
In the latest poll, 70 percent of Americans overall said they view
Israel favorably, and 62 percent said they sympathize more with the
Israelis than the Palestinians. Only 17 percent viewed the P.A.
favorably, and 16 percent sympathized more with the Palestinians than
the Israelis."...
Above images from Gallup
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