
Plenty of people who support Israel care about whoever is innocent in Gaza too. The polls suggest that the majority of Americans support Israel and how it is defending itself. This has nothing to do with your Judaism and I have to laugh because I am Jewish too but I stick to facts. I don't think because I am a Jew I get to speak for all of America without consulting actual polls. |
New poster (and also Jewish!). While many / most Americans support Israel generally, Israel is losing support for its actions (see poll data below). I don't have poll info at the ready, but I do think that a greater and greater number of Americans just want our $$ out of the region. For me, the latest Iranian action makes it even more clear the entire region is a mess. If one follows the logic that Israel has the right to defend themselves, then the same holds true for Iran and that gets dangerous. Imagine if Iran had bombed an Israeli consulate killing 16 people. How is an Iranian response not equally as just? I hope Biden keeps a cool head and does not pull us further into the mix. ------------------------------------------- Gallup's latest survey of American sentiment on Israel was published this week and polled 1,016 people across the U.S. between March 1 and 20. The survey was conducted before Israel's killing of several World Central Kitchen aid workers and before the latest tense exchanges between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding Israeli policy in the Strip. Democrats, Republicans and independents have all become less supportive of Israel's operation in Gaza than they were in December. Then, a narrow majority approved of Israeli conduct. The latest figures show that a majority, 55 percent, disapprove of Israel's actions, while 36 percent approve. Approval has dropped by 18 percentage points among Democrats (75 percent now disapproving versus 18 percent approving) and independents (60 percent now disapproving versus 29 percent approving), and a 7-point drop among Republicans (30 percent now disapproving versus 64 percent approving). |
True, there must be a way forward, but sometimes past wrongs need to be addressed, especially those in the relatively recent past. For example, one can't just murder someone and then say, "All done now. That was in the past. Let's move on." I agree with the claim that 20% of your ancestors lived in some desert 2,000 years ago doesn't give you the right to boot those who have lived on the land since time immemorial, but evicting indigenous people just 80 years ago demands justice and some sort of redress. Israel has been abusing the Palestinians for decades and stealing their land and their lives. The way forward involves remedying this injustice. |
First, it is clear you do not understand the history of Israel. Certainly there have been many different populations that called Israel home - the Egyptians, Romans, Turks, British, and Palestinians have all, at different times, emigrated into Israel, however the one constant over thousands of years has been that Jewish people. Unlike these invaders, who were historically drawn by the regions’ economic and environmental prosperity and the Jewish people’s hospitality, Jewish people have been consistently present in the region, and considered to be the sole native population, up until the last decade or so in which Iran and Palestinian Allie’s have spread the lie that Jews only entered Israel in the 1940s. This is not true, the Jewish identify was the primary, dominant culture in the region going back to thousands of years before the birth of Jesus, and were never fully removed from the area, as other cultures invaded, faded, were replaced, and shifted. Of course I consider the right of Palestinians. As does Israel. Many Palestinians live in Israel with the same rights as any other Israeli, serve in the IDF, and support the current mission. The removal of Hamas is in the best interest of all innocent Palestinians. If you support Palestinians and Palestine, you should be strongly supporting Israel in its current mission, as their intentions and the intentions of innocent Palestinians are the same. What many are misrepresenting as supporting Palestinians is actually supporting Hamas - calling for a ceasefire before Hamas is removed from power over the Palestinian people, calling for the reimplementation of the previous corrupt Humanitarian aid program so Hamas can continue to siphon off aid and sell it to support their war plans, etc… None of that is moving towards a better world where the Palestinian people. The reality you people refuse to accept is that the Palestinian people are far better off right now then they were on 10/6, and the reason for that is solely because Israel has intervened and is currently hard at work removing their oppressive Hamas overlords. |
Leadership? Leadership would be stepping up and promising US boots on the ground in support of our invaluable ally of Israel both in Gaza and in the IDF’s Iranian offensive. Pathetic that Biden is advocating for the genocide of Israel and all Jews worldwide, rather than supporting them wholeheartedly. I guess he just has no interest in the Jewish vote, as I do not know a single Jewish individual in this country that would even consider voting for Biden or the Democrat/Hamas party. |
Under Obama we killed far more Doctor's without Borders members in Afghanistan. Those weren't people out past wartime curfew. You understand that Iran is a threat to the world-right? Most Iranians do not support them, many Iranians support Israel and many of those who don't support Israel still want to see Israel win against Iran. Iran is an absolute threat to the US. This all did not start with israel's actions. Iran has numerous terrorist proxies attacking Israel on a regular basis. Being a Jew is not a credential. You don't seem to understand radical Islam, terrorism and the massive threat that is Iran. Oh and the UN is so corrupt, IRAN was made head of the committee on disarmament. |
Listen to the Palestinians. They do NOT want a 2 state solution. They want it all no compromise. Look at the history of offering a 2 state solution. Also "from the River to the Sea" is not about peace or a 2 state solution. It's about obliterating Jews and Israel. |
lol tell us about what Likud and Smotrich want between that old river and the sea. |
Why don’t you buy your son a pair of doc martens and put his own hoots on the ground then? I have no desire to send my sons to fight for Israel. They can figure it out. I don’t need them as an ally that much. You should go though. |
No one considers Jews the sole native population of the region. That’s your own personal wet dream. |
Aiiii I hear the sound of familiar hooves. It is the “god literally personally gave us this land” person. Welcome good sir! |
I’m that’s not true and I don’t believe you either. That’s a weird left meeting right statement. |