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Poll Shows Americans' Views
On Mideast Largely Unchanged
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A
mericans' views on Middle
East issues have not
changed in recent months,
despite major headlines from the
region, according to a new poll.
The Pew Research Center poll,
conducted in late May, found that
Americans still sympathize with Israel
over the Palestinians in their ongoing
conflict by 48 percent to 11 percent.
Those numbers are on par with an
April survey that found Americans
supporting Israel over the Palestinians
49 percent to 16 percent.
The unchanged support for Israel
also comes after escalating tension in
the U.S.-Israel relationship, including
President Obama's declaration that a
two-state solution should be based on
the 1967 border lines with mutually
agreed land swaps.
As a group, self-identified conserva-
tive Republicans had the most sympa-
thy for Israel at 75 percent, compared
to 32 percent who identified as liberal
Democrats.
According to the May poll, 50 per-
cent of Americans said they believe
Obama is striking the right balance
in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute,
21 percent said he is favoring the
Palestinians too much and 6 percent
said he is favoring Israel, with the rest
unsure. Those numbers are nearly
identical to the Pew poll in April.
Regarding the Arab Spring events,
23 percent said they thought the
changes will be good for the United
States and 26 percent said they will be
bad. Thirty-six percent said the Arab
Spring will have no effect on the U.S.,
and the rest were undecided.
The poll had a sample size of 1,509
adults and a margin of error of 3.5
percentage points.
A separate poll commissioned by
the Israel Project found that a major-
ity of U.S. voters would oppose a
unilateral declaration of a Palestinian
state, as Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas has indi-
cated he will seek from the United
Nations in September.
Fifty-seven percent polled June 5-7
said they would oppose such a move, up
from 51 percent in April. One-quarter of
voters said they would support the dec-
laration, down from 31 percent in April.
The Israel Project survey polled 800
registered voters and had a margin of
error of plus or minus 3.46 percentage
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