Today’s CNN/ORC International poll shows solid American support for Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense. Fifty-seven percent say Israel’s strikes in Gaza are justified, compared with 25 percent who disagree. That support is even higher among independents and Republicans, but substantially lower among Democrats:
A majority of Americans say that Israel’s current military strikes against Gaza are justified, according to a new national survey.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Monday indicates that 57% of the public says Israel is justified in taking military action in Gaza against Hamas, with one in four saying the attacks are unjustified.
“Although most Americans think the Israeli actions are justified, there are key segments of the public who don’t necessarily feel that way,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Only four in ten Democrats think the Israeli actions in Gaza are justified, compared to 74% of Republicans and 59% of independents. Support for Israel’s military action is 13 points higher among men than among women, and 15 points higher among older Americans than among younger Americans.”
Democrats are divided on the question, with 41 percent saying Israel’s actions are justified and 36 percent saying they’re unjustified. Another 23 percent say they have no opinion. The gulf between Democratic opinions on the operation and broader public opinion is notable, especially considering President Obama’s public support for Israeli self-defense. However, the Obama administration has also expressed strong opposition to an Israeli ground invasion, publicly and behind-the-scenes.
How many of the 36% voted more than once, though?
This is in line with the long-worrying-trend- that the democratic Party is increasingly becoming anti-Israel. We'll see how the debbie Wasserman's of this world- throw in a Beinart adn friedman or two- will cope with that penomenon?
The Democrats are becoming more European every day, except they still think Starbucks coffee is decent.
Coming from CNN you have to wonder how they didn't conclude that 1 billion percent of every life form in the universe is opposed to Israel. I've essentially had CNN on in the background every waking hour since this started and it's 98% in favor of and covering from Gaza.
Why are you torturing yourself? n nI'd rather put needles in my eyes that watch CNN or go to the NYTIMES. n nOf course, I also thought Romney was going to win . . . . . n
Our Empress may be in serious trouble, unable to navigate her way out of CNN's soporific pabulum and mazes of lies. Intensive deprogramming and peer intervention may be required. A bright desk lamp, pots of coffee and several teams on different shifts might switch her back to Fox or Arutz 7.
Always, ALWAYS read your enemy's propaganda — and never make the mistake of believing your own.
CNN = Jeff Bewkes = liberal democrat and darling of the media elite
The Blacks, the Liberals, and a few fringe groups like the Arab/Muslim Americans, Gay/Lesbian/Trans, etc. n nThese also happen to be Obama's core base. I would not trust Obama to support Israel in any substantial way, given the ambivalence if not outright hostility of his core toward that country.
I am surprised that NoBama is supporting a ground invasion because his base are the very people most opposed to – well – Israel itself. There may be a lot of Democrats really worried about loosing the Senate in the 2014 election, and he may be at this point "writing off" the left in hopes of trying to hang onto the country. n nOr if one truly wants to be cynical, anti-Israel protests would help solidify his base and any ground invasion is inherently going to get messy, which would then give Obama the ability to say that "well, I did support the invasion, but [whatever happened] means that I can't anymore."
Nor Susan Rice.
The Left is now 100% antizionist. They no longer believe in Israel's legitimacy. They have decided that it is an apartheid state which should commit suicide. They embrace Islam without even the slightest knowledge of the Koran and the Hadiths.
Obama has carefully qualified what he means by "support." He says Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas rockets. That is all he says. And that "right" refers only to the use of the US-financed Iron Dome anti-missile shield. That is all Obama has "approved." n nIsrael is being treated as though it were Obama's child, and this makes the soon-to-arrive Hillary Clinton Israel's nanny. Humiliation like this can only lead to contempt, and contempt—in every case—is the precursor to virulent outbreaks of anti-Semitic fury. We Jews cannot afford, 'ever again,' to be held in contempt. And yet, beginning with the shameful 2006 war against Hezbollah, the contempt for Jews has been building throughout the world. And it is this contempt—and nothing else—that explains why the latent, twisted sadism that has defined Europe for centuries is again seeking its age-old target: the Jews. And now, if the re-election of Barack Obama means anything it appears that Americans are joining "the club." n nToday, Israel is in far worse shape strategically, than ever before in its history. It will be a miracle if a few years from now a Jewish state exists at all, let alone behind "defensible borders"! Did it have to turn out this way? Of course not. But the current horror was set in motion the day Ariel Sharon collapsed and Ehud Olmert took over the leadership (and let us not forget that other brilliant statesman, Amir Peretz!). Let us put aside what Sharon's true purpose was in evacuating Gush Katif. Logic says it was to position Gaza as an actual Palestinian state rather than an occupied territory. And the significance of this finally seems to have penetrated the brains of both the Jewish/Israeli media and Israel's leaders—that "just maybe" Sharon had something game-changing in mind back when he ordered the unilateral withdrawal from Gush Katif in 2005. Had Sharon carried on, there is every reason to believe he'd have led Israel into an all-out war against Hamas the moment the rockets and other aggressive acts occurred—only then it would not be the normal "incursion" into occupied territory. After the withdrawal, Gaza became its own master, i.e., a state of its own. Sharon would have launched a full-scale war on a neighboring state that had, unprovoked, attacked the Jewish state next door. And given Bush's focus on winning in Iraq, as well as his personal admiration for both Israel and Prime Minister Sharon, one can say the US would not have interfered in that war at all, but seen it as "adjunctive" to its own operations in Iraq. n n The current strategic nightmare, of which Barack Obama and the Jews in his inner circle play a huge part, can end only two ways. If Netanyahu agrees to the series of "peace deals" Obama et al. are about to concoct with the Arabs and Iranians, then that will mean the end of the Jewish state. First, Obama will force a cease-fire for the moment, whereby US-mediated talks between Israel and the Palestinians will commence. But that's not really what Obama is after, because such "talks" never succeed. They drag on for years and do not redound to America's benefit. n nThus, there is a second act to Obama's strategy, and it will follow logically and plainly from the Gaza deal. On a given day, Obama will announce that an "agreement" has been struck with Iran, whereby the Iranians agree to suspend enriching uranium "permanently," provided the Middle East is rendered "nuclear free." Guess who? In other words, the game is "how to get Israel to dismantle its nuclear weapons?" That has been Obama's "game" from the moment he moved into the White House, and it is this that explains nearly everything about his approach to the events of the last several years in the Islamic world. Why didn't Obama voice support for the street protests in Teheran? Because he doesn't care what happens in Iran. He wants to do irreparable harm to Israel. Period. He sat at the feet of Jeremiah Wright for twenty years, and no one in America is more violently anti-Israel than Reverend Wright, the man Obama called his 'mentor.' n nThe day the agreement is announced, headlines will blare: "Iran agrees to suspend enrichment" and "Middle East to be a nuclear free zone" and "Now it's up to Israel….!" n nIf Israel goes for this deal, she will be signing her own death warrant. Israel must have a nuclear deterrent, because she is outnumbered 50-1 by enemies determined to wipe the Jewish state off the map! So Israel will not be able to sign on to this "peace deal." n nThe next day, the headlines will blare: "Israel stands in the way of peace," etc., etc., etc. And that will be the end of that. Checkmate. n n[continued]
[continued from above] n nBut there is a way out of this mess. Israel must decide whether it really wants to survive as a permanent nation-state. The history of nation-states is that they all had to fight to earn their right to permanency. This applies to Britain, France, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Turkey, even Egypt, and it certainly applies to tiny Israel! A people that is 'few' and that is set upon by neighboring hostile nations must forget about "being holy" and commit to "being heroic." n nWhy this "shift" was forgotten after 1948 is simple enough: Israel's leaders decided it was okay to "rebuild" the same institutions that played a major part in creating the passivity and narcissism that made us easy prey for the Nazis and the other European monsters. At its founding, Israel was supposed to be a place free of that kind of thing. No more "victim-Jews." Henceforth, we were men like other men. n nBut the "rebuilding" deal was cut, and the "rebuilding" began. As a direct result, Israel is not what it was at its founding. And that is why today Israel finds itself once again (instead of "Never Again") standing at the edge of an abyss. The sadistic bullies of the world know we're ready for the slaughter once more. And they mean to have us, again. As for the Jews of the Diaspora, the greater part of them is shameful and hopeless. Not even worth mentioning. They are not men. They are something else. Something anti-heroic. Something cowardly and disloyal. Something determined to no longer "be Jewish,” or anything else. n nBut in Israel there are still heroic Jewish men and women who are determined that this time, win or lose, Jews will not go quietly. And it is this bunch that just might be able to save Israel, by fighting for their lives against odds that seem insurmountable, just as happened in 1948.
"Democrats are divided on the question, with 41 percent saying Israels actions are justified and 36 percent saying theyre unjustified. Another 23 percent say they have no opinion." n n nSo of those Democrats who expressed an opinion, almost half thought that Israel had no right to respond in any way to the rocket barrage from Gaza. In other words, almost half of Democrats agreed with the Arab terrorists or with the European or US neo-Nazis. And unbelievably there are still Jews who still support the Democrats! Can anyone recommend a good (sane) psychiatrist? n