Posted on 11/24/2013 7:11:47 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Survey indicates backing drops even further if US opposed to move; second poll reveals majority of Americans favor deal with Tehran
Slightly fewer than half of Israelis back the use of a military option against Iran’s nuclear program, with the number dropping even further should the US not lend support for such an action, a poll released Thursday night showed.
At the same time, a separate poll among US citizens showed growing support for a diplomatic deal with Tehran. The Israeli poll, commissioned by Channel 2 political anchor Nissim Mishal, showed 49.1 percent of Israelis backing a last-resort military strike on Iran, with 43.3% against.
Asked whether they would support a military strike, but with the caveat specifying that the Americans opposed the strike, Israeli attitudes tilted against: 53.5% said they would be against military action, while 39.9% said they would be in favor of an Israeli strike.
Despite Jerusalem’s stance that a military strike may be necessary to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, polls have shown support for such a move steadily dropping.
An Israel Hayom poll released last Friday showed 52.4% of Israelis backing a military strike if Iran and the group of six world powers reached a “bad deal” that let Iran keep enriching uranium; 26.8% were opposed in that poll.
In October, a survey by the same paper found support for a strike as high as 65.6%.
Meanwhile, a CNN poll released Thursday showed that more than half of Americans would support a deal with Iran that curbed, but didn’t end, nuclear enrichment.
While Israel demands any deal include a total halt to enrichment, saying even a small amount could allow Iran to build a nuclear weapon, the six world powers negotiating with Iran in Geneva this week have indicated they are seeking a deal with more modest limits that Tehran would be more likely to accept.
According to the poll, 56% of Americans would accept a deal and 39% would be opposed. CNN polling director Keating Holland said Democrats polled were more likely to support a deal than Republicans.
A second day of talks in Geneva ended Thursday with gaps remaining between the parties, but officials on both sides remain optimistic that an interim agreement may be in the works.
Netanyahu is a politician, a politician heading a coalition government. He must weigh such realities against what he sees as the security threats to his country.
.......”a poll” by definition is of average citizens on the street. Jessie Watters proves daily that most of these folks are not even LIV’s, they’re retards. So, polls be damned on this subject involving the very survival of Israel and potentially hundreds of thousands “this time” of Manhattan LIV’s and retards.
I pray that Netanyahu and his advisors do what is right. A Missouri boy did, 68 years ago.
This is why I urged Bibi to strike 2 years ago. Our Iranian-born President Valerie Jarrett and her puppet Obama are determined to destroy the Jewish state by any and all means.
I find it laughable that there is even a poll for this. Who gives a damn what anyone thinks...Isreal is not being left with much of a choice. I will applaud when they erase Iran from the map.
No one cared, either, when Hitler occupied the Sudetenland; history records how well that went.
Our public education as a model for Israel?
Greater than 50% of Americans are s-bone stupid. Them too?
The Israelis are becoming just as decadent as we are. They are losing their will to fight. If they are not careful, they will see mushroom clouds over Tel Aviv.
There is no mitary option against Iran when Russia backs them.
So they prefer death?
I’m pretty sure that Bibi and the Israeli people could give a rat’s ass about our polls.
Why don’t we take a poll and ask, if Mexico was with six weeks of a nuclear bomb and hated our guts, if we would feel like the Iran/Mexico deal went far enough.
The moron majority movement on banal display. Life is unfair when the stupids get to overrule the wise. History is replete with such situations when the stupid and immoral join forces.
I think what Debka has been saying is true. Netanyahu has wanted to hit Iran all by itself but whenever Israel geared up to do so this was leaked to the Iranians. Israel might have been able to coordinate with Saudi Arabia as far as fly overs etc.
Obama and his minions have been sabotaging any Israeli attempt to nullify Iran’s nuclear weapons program. We are able to gather intel on such strikes via satellite and other means then pass it on to Iran. One day this will come out in a verifiable fashion
They are as naive as the Jews in Germany in 1936, “Ok, Hitler is a bad guy, but at least the worst is over.”
They are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. They are just wishing the whole Iran nuclear situation would go away. I can easily see an Iran-Russia-China bloc dominating the flow of MidEast oil within a few years. Telling Saudi Arabia how much oil it it can sell, who it can sell to and at what price. And demanding $10 tariff from each barrel that Saudi and other Sunni Muslim oils sellers are selling. Include Kuwait and others
Tel Aviv is another San Francisco. But other areas, like the West Bank settlers, are made of much stronger stuff- both morally and in the physical strength to persevere and endure.
Israeli military action will be delayed until there is a Republican President.
Until then, Israel will use covert means to frustrate Iranian weapons development.
I hope that you are right, but MODERN popular American culture is decadent, in some ways, toxic. Israeli youth are greatly influenced by it. Historic cycles as they are, any country that experience a sustained period of economic prosperity almost always begins to become decadent. You can see this cycle of human behavior in the history of all civilizations since the dawn of man.
correction: ....any country that experiences...
Need new glasses.
mission accomplished - signed J f kerry
Does Neville Chamberlain ring a bell?
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