Posted on 03/12/2024 7:56:59 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Forty-four percent of Israelis would rather see former US president Donald Trump return to the White House in 2025, compared to 30% who would prefer US President Joe Biden be elected for a second term, according to a poll published by Channel 12 on Tuesday evening.
An additional 26% said they didn’t know which of the two men they would rather see elected.
Among respondents who voted for parties in the current government coalition, 72% said they preferred Trump while 8% said they preferred Biden. When asked the same question, 55% of respondents who voted for parties sitting in the opposition preferred Biden and 23% said they would rather see Trump return.
The poll was conducted on Tuesday, March 12 and included responses from 504 people representing a sample of the entire population of Israel aged 18 and above. It had a maximum sampling error of 4.4 percentage points.
Moving away from the US political landscape, the survey focused on Israel’s own political turmoil.
The survey was carried out before Gideon Sa’ar’s announcement that he was withdrawing his New Hope faction from Minister Benny Gantz’s National Unity party and as a result, did not reflect the impact of his decision on public opinion.
If elections were to be held today, the poll found, Gantz’s party would receive 35 seats, making it the largest party in the Knesset by a considerable margin, despite dropping slightly in comparison to previous polls.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party would gain one seat compared to the previous survey, leaving the currently 32-seat-strong party with 19.
The governing coalition — minus National Unity, which joined as an emergency measure at the start of the war with Hamas — would receive 46 seats in total, the poll found, a far cry from the 61 necessary to form a government. The opposition, including Gantz’s party, would receive 74 seats.
According to the poll, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party would receive 14 seats, down from its current 24, and the ultra-Orthodox Shas party would be the fourth-largest in the Knesset with 11 seats. Following behind Shas, Yisrael Beytenu would receive 10 seats, the far-right Otzma Yehudit would receive nine and the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism would receive seven.
The Arab-majority Hadash-Ta’al party, Islamist party Ra’am and the left-wing Meretz would each receive five seats, rounding out the 120 Knesset seats.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party would fall below the 3.25% minimum voter threshold, as would Labor and Balad.
Asked who they would prefer to see as Israel’s next prime minister, 41% of respondents said they would prefer Gantz and 29% said they would prefer Netanyahu; 23% said neither was suitable for the position and 7% said they didn’t know who they preferred.
Regarding the timing of Israel’s next elections, 64% of people believe that the country should hold early elections rather than wait until the end of the current government’s term in 2026, the poll found.
Of those who support bringing the date for Israel’s general elections forward, 30% believe that they should be held immediately and 34% believe that they should be held after the end of the war.
Questioned about the ongoing war against Hamas, 49% of people said they believe Israel should immediately establish a State Commission of Inquiry into the events surrounding the October 7 massacre while 43% believe it should be established after the end of the war.
Just 2% of people believe no such commission is needed and 6% said they were unsure.
If only American Jews emulate these wise and sensible Israelis and GOTV for their defender President Trump!!!
And 80% of the American Jews will be voting for Biden.
Do you know what a devout Jew shouts at a football game?
“Get that quarter back!
Do you know what a devout Christian man shouts at a college game?
” Get that split end!
So embarrassing.
There are plenty and I mean plenty of far left Jews in Israel who would gladly give most or if not all of Israel to the Arabs..the media treats bibi just like the media treats trump here
Pathetically low. Should be 80+%.
About 20% are Muslim. There is also a Christian minority that (depending on the denomination) is more radically antisemitic than the Muslims, although that has shifted a lot recently as they are persecuted by Muslims. It’s mainly a couple of Armenian Orthodox (?) groups that have deep
Seated historical animosity.
Same here in USA.
Very good. :)
“By 44% to 30%, Israelis prefer Trump to Biden as next US president”
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Evidently they prefer Trump!
Because Trump would most probably favor a massive bombing on Iran’s nuclear facilities - if needed to end their nuclear threats once and for all.
Iran is Russia’s number one military ally... so no wonder Putin recently wished (on live Russian TV) that Biden wins the next US presidential election. Biden will never dare “shaking up” Iran in any ways.
Except Israeli’s don’t vote in our elections.
The bitter irony Israel poses to Biden foreign policy, and re-electionm is all the more sweet. There are over 700k Americans with dual nationality with Israel.
I’m seeing more like 150,000 here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Americans
What is your source for 700,000?
That should be 100% for Trump, why do the Jews fall for the people that hate them everytime?
When I was in port in the early 80s in Haifa... I didn’t pay for one beer.. some Israeli bought it for me and said thanks and cheered on America.
I definitely felt welcomed.
I’m surprised 30% prefer Biden especially after Oct 7th
When I was in Tel Aviv that is the number American Jews living Israel at any time. Counselor Section said in total dual US Israeli citizens were over 700k in 2004-2006. Zhese were the working numbers for evacuation from Israel or Embassy citizen alerts over mobile phone.
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