Only 54% of Americans say Israel is Ally, down from 68% in 2014 and 74% in 2012

[touchstone]

It looks like Americans are starting to see the light about our little exploitative friend Israel, they aren't our allies.


https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/n...ll-just-54-of-americans-see-israel-as-an-ally

New poll: just 54% of Americans see Israel as an ally


The number of Americans who view Israel as an ally of the United States has sharply decreased, according to a new poll published Thursday.

Only 54% of Americans polled said that Israel is their country's ally, a decline from 68% in 2014 and 74% in 2012.

Rasmussen Reports, who conducted the poll, said Israel had "tumbled down the list."

By contrast, 86% and 84% see Canada and Britain respectfully as the US's allies.

When broken down along party political lines, 76% of Republicans view Israel an ally of the US compared to only 45% of Democrats and 47% of Independents.

Strikingly, Democrats by a 10-point margin now see Mexico as a better ally than Israel.

The poll was conducted by Rasmussen Reports on March 29-30, and surveyed 800 American adults

Am I the only one who has been seeing this trend in real life? There was a time when suggesting that Israel might not be the greatest ally the US has ever had was suicide, now most sensible people who aren't jewish (and some that are) will agree that Israel is totally out of control. It is a rogue state.

 

[Annisman*]

Imo Israel needs to be supported at all costs, I don't even care if they don't like us.

 

[soulcougher73]

I never considered them an ally. They don't do anything for us except drain our tax money.

 

[Enigmoid]

This reminds me of Hitler and just before WW2.

People don't realize that factions in the middle east will not, under any circumstances, accept the existence of Israel in any state or form. These groups will be satisfied with nothing less than the total and utter destruction of the country and the land back under non-Jewish rule.

Their attempts for peace are simply ploys at "crying wolf". Their pleas that they can play nicely if given their "Palestinian state" are complete garbage. Ethnic groups in the region still can't get along; not to mention as soon as the common enemy is removed things will devolve even more.

 

[michal1980]

years of Obama's anti Israel Pro Iran policies, along with the lmsm carrying water for him have finally made an impact.

I wonder when Jews will wake up to see that democrats do not support them?

 

[gdansk]

I think it's because most Americans now recognize that Israel can largely defend themselves.

The fun part is that even if we totally disassociated with Israel and went neutral on the matter, we'd still be the most hated nation in the Middle East. I'm willing to try "abandoning" Israel, if only to have the last laugh.

 

[Annisman*]

Radical muslims hate America and really hate Israel, we could be totally isolated from foreign policy and involvement for 100 years and they'd still try just as hard to hit us.

 

[MongGrel]

Imo Israel needs to be supported at all costs, I don't even care if they don't like us.

Twit.

 

[rudeguy]

It looks like Americans are starting to see the light about our little exploitative friend Israel, they aren't our allies.


https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/n...ll-just-54-of-americans-see-israel-as-an-ally



Am I the only one who has been seeing this trend in real life? There was a time when suggesting that Israel might not be the greatest ally the US has ever had was suicide, now most sensible people who aren't jewish (and some that are) will agree that Israel is totally out of control. It is a rogue state.

The president shits on Israel and you are surprised people don't consider them an ally? Democrats are sheep who only believe what they are told to believe. This makes perfect sense.

 

[rudeguy]

Twit.

Is our little racist getting mad?



Awwwe too bad.

 

[MongGrel]

Is our little racist getting mad?



Awwwe too bad.

I'm probably the farthest thing from a Racist you will ever encounter.

 

[rudeguy]

I'm probably the farthest thing from a Racist you will ever encounter.

Really?

Then why did you want to bring up race in the ivy league thread?

 

[MongGrel]

I wasn't the one that brought it up.

And nuked the guy that did.

Perhaps you should get some memory retention going there in your brain.

NM, maybe you meant that, was a interesting end result.

 

[inachu]

I would say support for israel in America would be at 80% if we knew the jews were 100% Israeli with no european or russian roots.

 

[rudeguy]

I wasn't the one that brought it up.

And nuked the guy that did.

Perhaps you should get some memory retention going there in your brain.

NM, maybe you meant that, was a interesting end result.

No I read as you saying you were going to say something about race. Maybe you meant you were going to say something about the person saying it was about race? Raception?

 

[senseamp]

Israel overplayed its hand. Despite our current SCOTUS Republicans' best efforts to get Americans to accept their corrupting influence as "free speech," Americans don't accept special interests hijacking our politics, especially foreign special interests. Sheldon Adelson taking attendance and threatening to use his money to go after anyone who doesn't show up to Bibi's speech, that was a nice touch. Reelecting Bibi means the damage to the relationship will keep on happening.

 

[Moonbeam]

Slowly but surely Israel is becoming what it fears, a lunatic state obsessed with the evil of the other. More and more they see the Palestinians as the Germans saw them. More and more they squeeze them into an oven making the land safe for a Jewish state as if Jews aren't people. To be a Jew or any other nationality or race is to identify with a delusion, an artificial construct, an accident of history. There are only human beings and just one kind of them. Tradition is a garbage collection when the ego attaches to it.

 

[HomerJS]

Maybe Bibi constantly screwing us over and the disrespect has an effect.

 

[fskimospy]

This is what we were talking about before when we said Netanyahu fucked up. By aligning himself with republicans he has undermined the long history of bipartisan support for Israel. Boehner was foolish enough to try and invite him behind his back and Netanyahu was foolish enough to accept.

Don't say that people didn't try to warn them that they were making a mistake.

 

[gdansk]

I think, also, most Americans are OK with the idea of a nuclear compromise with Iran. Israel's stringent statements against compromise make the American populace question their motives.

 

[rudeguy]

I think, also, most Americans are OK with the idea of a nuclear compromise with Iran. Israel's stringent statements against compromise make the American populace question their motives.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/23/i...y-solution-for-crisis-is-israels-destruction/

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/middleeast/iran-nuclear-netanyahu


Who is against compromise?

 

[Victorian Gray]

Imo Israel needs to be supported at all costs, I don't even care if they don't like us.

Why?

 

[highland145]

Maybe Bibi constantly screwing us over and the disrespect has an effect.

Cool. So we deal with Iran.....

 

[IronWing]

Israel is an ally. We share some common interests in the region and can work toward some common goals, hence an ally. That said, we don't owe them a thing and shouldn't pay them another dime.

 

[fskimospy]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/23/i...y-solution-for-crisis-is-israels-destruction/

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/middleeast/iran-nuclear-netanyahu


Who is against compromise?

Probably the guy who repeatedly tried to torpedo the compromise, Netanyahu.

It's funny that even after Iran agrees to a compromise you would keep arguing that.