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2016 Postmortem

leftynyc

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15. Uh - perhaps with you they

Reply to Viva_Daddy (Reply #13)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 04:49 PM

Nov 2013

don't have credibility. But in the larger United States, Gallup has done the same question for decades asking if sympathies were with Israel or the Palestinians. Most recently 2/13 has 64% with the Israelis. So perhaps you should speak for yourself only.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/gallup.html

Edited to add: wow - in looking at that chart further, it's not limited to the Palestinians - it covers all Arab states. Also interesting, that 64% figure is the highest it's ever been except for January 1991. Wonder why that is.

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