The US support for Israel has decreased by five percent in a year, hitting the lowest point in the last decade
A United States flag flies in front of the U.S. Capitol dome at sunrise on the day of the U.S. midterm election as voters went to the polls across the country to elect 33 U.S. senators and all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2018. finds that American support for Israel in light of Israeli-Palestinian conflict has hit a 10-year low to 59 percent.
American people from both Democratic and Republican school of thoughts have seen a small drop for sympathies towards Israel in the past year. "Apart from the rank order, the gaps in net sympathy for Israel between the groups have been widening, with sympathy for Israel increasing among both Republican groups and decreasing among both Democratic groups," a Gallup poll read.
“That has all is taken place within the larger cultural context shaped largely by decades-long brainwashing, lies and deception of Hollywood, where Israel is glorified and Palestinians are demonized. Many Americans who cannot even locate Palestine and Israel on a map view Israel in a positive sense and Palestine in a negative sense without knowing much in term of facts,” he said.
“The Trump-Netanyahu sinister alliance has forced many Americans to reconsider the positive representations they held of Israel throughout the years. This fact is also true in the case of young Jewish Americans, as they areThe poll conducted by Gallup came after Representative Ilhan Omar from Minnesota questioned the US support for Israel.
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