60% define themselves as right wing, 27% as center, and 13% as left wing.
Posted on 07/03/2024 8:02:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Nearly nine months after Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack, the Jewish state's political divisions have reemerged, with protests criticizing the government for various and often opposing reasons breaking out across the country.
But a sweeping new public opinion survey by pollsters affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has revealed how the Oct. 7 attack on Israel solidified a national consensus on what used to be the country's main political disagreement. When it comes to the Palestinians, the survey found, almost everyone is a right-winger now...
The findings help explain why the Biden administration has so far failed to persuade Israel to end its war to destroy the Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza and recommit to a two-state solution...
Nir and his team, known as Agam Labs, surveyed a nationally representative sample of 4,000 Jewish Israeli adults in August and then, from Oct. 9 through last month, checked back in with most of them every 10 days or so. By tracking so many of the same individuals over time, the pollsters were able to minimize noise and uncertainty—yielding the most comprehensive picture to date of how Israeli politics have shifted since Oct. 7.
Each round of polling had a margin of error of about 4 percentage points. But changes as small as 2 percentage points are significant if consistent over time, according to the pollsters...
Debbie Sharon, 60, a criminal defense attorney from Yated, a town in southern Israel, counts herself among the newly minted right-wingers. She recalled that prior to Oct. 7, she subscribed to the then-prevailing conception that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 and subsequent economic support for the strip encouraged quiet and might one day lead to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
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An *actual* foreign policy success by the Biden junta!
The left has been standing on a chair with a rope around its neck for years, and not just in Israel.
A lot of those attacked on 10/7 were “peace lovers”.
Awwwwwwwww! That’s too bad.
This is the cliche “A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged”, played out at nation level.
Their left still dominates their media.
Interesting name.
The Israeli Left has been shrinking for years, unable to win elections and having to pretend to be centrists or moderates or even Righties.
Meanwhile, military field officers and combat arms (except Air Force) are close to a majority National Religious, hated by senior officers. Lucky that National Religious are patriots willing to bide their time instead of launching a kind of coup like the Left in Israel is doing.
With a few exceptions that seems to be a world wide phenomenon.
60% define themselves as right wing, 27% as center, and 13% as left wing.
1200 of their own women, men and children had to be murdered during a rape war. That it took that level of horror speaks to their ability to deny the truth about a swath of people whose faith is cheering on rape and murder.
We have the same here… the evil ones just hold smaller scale attacks which are ignored.
You cannot first with the rape war faith… or their supporters.
The suffering for those who were attacked on 10/7 is on the hands of those who refuse to see until such atrocities.
Agam Labs is Hebrew University, typical Leftists. Reality is probably worse for the Left.
Palis? I never had any use for them before October and even less now? If the Israelis wipe out all of Hamass and the
Hesbians ( Hezbollah ) I wont miss them one bit.
People seem to forget how big the Israeli protests against judicial reforms were. This is a mugged lib reaction.
They were about to overthrow Netanyahu.
Good, long past time for the Left in Israel to simply go away. WRT foreign policy, the are nearly suicidal.
Quite true. An American Jewish friend of mine who knows Israel news and politics in detail explained that Leftist Israelis often hire and try to befriend Palestinians. On October 7, many of those Palestinians were revealed as Hamas agents who had reconnoitered the areas attacked and found and reported on their vulnerabilities.
All that CIA money gone to waste.
BUMP
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