Americans Love Israel More Than You Think -Barry Rubin
Gallup's latest poll measuring how Americans feel about different countries rates Israel 67% favorable and 25% unfavorable. Only one-fourth of those 25%, that is 6%, are really hostile.
After 20 years of intensive media criticism, hostility on campuses, double standards, and controversy, that's nothing short of remarkable.
At the same time, the PA receives constant good publicity in the media, campuses, and among policymakers as moderate and friendly to the U.S. Yet only 20% are favorable to the PA and a whopping 70% are negative.
(Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya)
Israel Increasingly Popular. Surprised? -Editorial
Support for Israel among Americans is at a 19-year high, according to a Gallup poll.
For all the criticism of the mainstream press among pro-Israel advocates in this country, most Americans get their news and views about the Mideast from the
very same news media so often perceived of as biased against Israel. Somehow a positive message must be getting through.
The encouraging survey results do not mean that we should, as a community, ease up on our advocacy for Israel. But we should [be] mindful of and grateful for an American society that appreciates the importance of Israel as a strong and loyal ally in an increasingly dangerous neighborhood.
Gallup's latest poll measuring how Americans feel about different countries rates Israel 67% favorable and 25% unfavorable. Only one-fourth of those 25%, that is 6%, are really hostile.
After 20 years of intensive media criticism, hostility on campuses, double standards, and controversy, that's nothing short of remarkable.
At the same time, the PA receives constant good publicity in the media, campuses, and among policymakers as moderate and friendly to the U.S. Yet only 20% are favorable to the PA and a whopping 70% are negative.
(Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya)
Israel Increasingly Popular. Surprised? -Editorial
Support for Israel among Americans is at a 19-year high, according to a Gallup poll.
For all the criticism of the mainstream press among pro-Israel advocates in this country, most Americans get their news and views about the Mideast from the
very same news media so often perceived of as biased against Israel. Somehow a positive message must be getting through.The encouraging survey results do not mean that we should, as a community, ease up on our advocacy for Israel. But we should [be] mindful of and grateful for an American society that appreciates the importance of Israel as a strong and loyal ally in an increasingly dangerous neighborhood.
(New York Jewish Week)
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