Posted on 08/06/2014 6:27:56 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
A Gallup poll has found that 42% of the adult population in the US think the Israeli actions in Gaza are “mostly justified,” while 14% thought the same about Hamas's actions.
Americans' views of the military actions of Israel and Hamas in the current conflict in Gaza have changed little over the past 10 days. The public remains closely divided over whether Israel's actions have been justified, but is mostly critical of Hamas' actions.
Six in 10 Americans say they are following the conflict "very" or "somewhat closely."
Does the advent of social media news, which often includes more graphic coverage of fighting, destruction, injuries and deaths, affect public opinion about the conflict? The evidence to support that hypothesis is not strong, Gallup says. “Not only is opinion little different now than it was during a similar 2002 conflict, but just 19% of Americans report using Facebook, Twitter, or other social media to follow news of the conflict 'a lot' or 'some,' significantly lower than those who are using newspapers, the Internet, and in particular television (including cable) news.”
Americans' attention to the conflict and their attitudes about the actions on both sides have remained remarkably unchanged compared with results from the period of Israeli-Palestinian violence 12 years ago. This suggests that Americans may have responded to both crises in ways that reflect their basic attitudes toward Israel and the Palestinians rather than the specifics of either conflict.
In general, Americans rate Israel much more favorably as a country than the Palestinian Territories, and are much more likely to say they sympathize with the Israelis than the Palestinians when asked to choose between the two sides.
Americans remain roughly divided on the issue of whether the actions of the Israelis against the Hamas are justified.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Thank-you for that good news!
You call that good news? I’m shocked and horrified that 25% of those surveyed could possibly choose Hamas. It’s another tell-tale sign that the country as we know it is going bye-bye.
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In spite of everything the media has been doing, every sane American knows we wouldn’t stand for 3000 rockets being fired into our country, big as it is.
When Israeli children have to have bomb shelters on their playgrounds, you know who is at fault. (The children in Gaza don’t have bomb shelters because all the concrete is used by Hamas to build sabotage tunnels into Israel. Hamas uses dead children as propaganda fodder.)
I’m sure the MSM will double down on their pro-Hamas position to counter this.
I’m seeing normally sane conservative 20 year old college students being sucked in by the effective Palestinian propaganda.
More Arabs died at the hands of Arabs in the last month, but they don’t have film rolling looking for carnage to post to social media and YouTube.
Thankfully the media hasn’t won their propaganda effort.
yet
14% of the country are terrorist sympathizers..... disgraceful!!!
Just remember that all those street protests against Israel are all instigated by our ‘American’ muzzies.
Do you see any of them protest ISIS and its terrorist deeds?
Can’t you now deduct from this that those protesters are ISIS agents and don’t you know that ISIS has predicted that they will come after the US?
Hence, we allow our very enemy into our country.
Not to worry. The ldm (lap dog media) is doing all it can to turn this around so that ham-ass comes out on top. Especially since they are so caring and giving unlike those evil Israelis who purposely bomb schools and hospitals just for the heck of it. Sorry dang state of affairs.
How is only 42% “mostly justified” good news? There was a time that would have been 85-90%.
That will require another 10 major muzzie terrorist acts to take place in the country.
However, don’t ever expect American muzzies to take the side of their host country.
Islam is thicker than fidelity.
And the other 44% apparently said, "What an Israeli Hamas? A sandwich? And more importantly when do my welfare check get here?"
If the world press would report facts on this conflict instead of lies, the ratings would be much much higher is support of Israel. It takes work to find the truth.
Well those same folks are going to be in for a RUDE AWAKENING, since 2008-09, gun sales have gone up and they could very well be looking at the front end of a gun. Translation: AMERICANS are ARMED to the teeth.
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