Poll: Public divided over Israel's actions

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

The public remains divided over whether Israel’s actions toward Hamas have been justified, though more are critical of Hamas’s actions, according to a Gallup survey released Tuesday.

Forty-two percent of people in the United States said Israel’s actions are justified, while 38 percent said they are unjustified. Twenty-one percent said they have no opinion.

Only 14 percent said Palestinians’ actions against Israel are justified; 66 percent said they are unjustified.

Public opinion of Israel’s actions has changed little over the last 10 days since Gallup conducted its last poll on the issue. Slightly more people, however, now say Hamas’s actions are justified.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/214308-public-remains-divided-over-israels-actions-poll-says

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[atreides1]

1. I still don't get it

Why does it seem that Israel is more important to some Americans, then our own country?

[leftynyc]

3. Where do you get that from this poll?

That they care more about Israel than the US? I don't see any question that resembles that at all.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Rightwing religious brainwashing, every Sunday morning at 10am in a nearby pew.

Just turn off your brain and chant Amen!

[harun]

12. Damn good propaganda.

[IDemo]

2. 42 percent

The same ol' reliable percentage who thought Bush was a good president, the Earth is young and climate change is a liberal conspiracy.

[AngryDem001]

7. 42 is the answer to everything.

The Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.

[Dopers_Greed]

4. Seems like there is a lot more support for Israel than Palestine

I guess mission accomplished for the corporate media

[Larkspur]

5. Israel would lose more support if our media pointed out that when Hamas' rockets

aren't flying is when Israel continues its apartheid policies against the Palestinians and depicts in action those policies.

[cosmicone]

6. It's the older, white Americans who have been brainwashed about Israel's importance

As the demographics change, the newly powerful Hispanic and Asian blocks wouldn't care about Israel or its security.

Israel has a window of about 10-20 years to hammer out a peace deal or they will lose American support.

[Bigmack]

8. The VAST majority of Americans have NO idea

of the history of Israel's "founding" - out of Palestinian land with the collaboration of the European powers - especially England. They have NO idea that the current "Palestinian" people have lived in what is now "Israel" for hundreds of years, and that giving that land "back" to the Jewish people (who God only knows have truly suffered over the centuries) makes LESS sense that does giving ALL of the United States back to the Native Americans, who still "owned" MOST of the US less than two centuries ago. Most Americans have NO idea about how many Palestinians were forced out of the homes and off of their land so that European and American Jews could occupy it. Israel is the last European colony in the Middle East. Ms Bigmack

[JI7]

10. why is israel's actions seen as being against Hamas

but then it says palestinian actions against israel.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. And a majority of the UK public polled believe Israel and Hamas are both guilty of war crimes:

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/07/29/british-public-believe-hamas-israel-both-guilty-wa/