Edward Carver – Common Dreams Aug 7, 2024
A majority of Americans oppose sending U.S. troops to defend Israel if it’s attacked by a neighboring country, according to a poll released Tuesday.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) poll found that 55% of Americans oppose such military support of Israel while just 41% favor it, marking a shift from previous iterations of the poll over the last decade in which support for the U.S. defense of Israel was just above 50%.
The poll comes as Israel braces for retaliatory attacks following the assassinations last week of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut. The U.S. has moved additional forces into the region to support Israel as diplomats work overtime to try to deescalate tensions and prevent an all-out war in the Middle East. The poll was conducted June 21 to July 1 and doesn’t account for these developments.
The reasons for declining U.S. support for defending Israel aren’t explored in the poll, but CCGA author Dina Smeltz suggested that “the unrelenting Israeli attacks against Gaza have likely dampened American willingness to defend Israel,” and critics of Israel’s assault on Gaza drew similar conclusions.
“Nothing seems to undermine Americans’ support for Israel more than Israel’s own policies,” Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote on social media in response to the poll.
CCGA’s findings fit with other polling this year that shows decreasing American support for Israel, which has laid siege to the Gaza Strip for the last 10 months, killing nearly 40,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry, and destroying a large proportion of the enclave’s buildings. The siege began after Hamas and affiliated militant groups massacred more than 1,100 Israelis on October 7.
A Gallup poll in March showed that most Americans disapprove of Israel’s military action in Gaza, and another poll that month by the Center for Economic and Policy Research showed that most Americans wanted to stop U.S. weapons shipments to Israel until the country ended its assault on Gaza.
That people in the U.S.—Israel’s strongest diplomatic ally and military backer—have decreased their support for Israel is indicative of a global trend. A poll conducted across 43 countries showed a tremendous drop in support for Israel over the first three months of the war, for which Israel has faced widespread international condemnation.
Both the United Nations General Assembly and U.N. Security Council have adopted resolutions demanding a cease-fire. The International Court of Justice, the U.N.’s top court, has issued a series of rulings against Israel this year and the International Criminal Court has sought arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders.
The international criticism has not deterred Israel from further aggression. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set back cease-fire negotiations with Hamas last week with his military’s assassination campaign, and he now faces the prospect of an all-out war on multiple fronts, with both Hezbollah and Iran vowing to retaliate.
Hezbollah, a militant group and political party in Lebanon, has ties to Iran and is considered to be significantly better-armed than Hamas, raising the possibility of a war of devastating magnitude. Israel and Hezbollah have traded thousands of airstrikes since October, leaving more than 500 dead, mostly on the Lebanese side, but until now have avoided a major escalation.
Western diplomats have even greater fear of a direct war between Israel and Iran. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leading what The Washington Postcalled a “diplomatic sprint” around the Middle East to try to indirectly pressure Iran to use restraint in its response to the assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran. The State Department has refused to say that Iran has a right to defend itself.
The U.S. has placed squadron of F-22 jets and naval destroyers near Israel in preparation for an Iranian attack. U.S. and Israeli leaders have long spoken of the two countries’ “ironclad” bond, but no formal military defense treaty exists that requires the U.S. to defend Israel in the event of an attack.
“Most Americans Oppose Sending US Troops to Defend Israel: Poll”
When did the voices of Americans ever stop the traitorous war mongering freaks of the District of Criminals from sending White goyim to the slaughter fields for Israhell? Do they even listen to those same voices?
All White citizens of all Western nations might as well talk to the effing walls.
We are counted sheep to the slaughter or cannon fodder for their JWO – Jew World Order.
Some on this site may not like NicoX and yes his solutions are useless and unfounded, but as he says: It’s called White-O-Side.
Hopefully, this current generation of youth tell the criminal demons to piss off; we’re not fighting your wars.
Scott Ritter has been raided by the FBI. For his anti-Israel comments?
What Americans WANT… and what Americans GET… Good ‘n Hard!!…
are two completely DIFFERENT things… OUCH!! 😳
In Los Angeles thousands of senior citizens are dying on the streets, homeless. This is the real cost of funding endless wars and a colossal number of military bases overseas. As the US has been a militarist state for a very long time a lot of those dead homeless will have been veterans.
This economic decline is the future for Britain and why we had riots.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/thousands-senior-citizens-dying-homeless-110007902.html
only idiots join . btw in our times troops
are only needed as occupation force .
this is time of nuke missiles against civilians !
Satanjahu already set exemples in Gaza .
@LERCH
only efective sand in the gear are lonesome quiet
loone wolf assassines (Kazinskis) picking the
right targets. no organisation. no group, no spies,
no snitches !
if Latinos + Moslems were in the same situation
in their homelands they would drive their hard
gear . whats needed arms,arms arms !
to MM: some of those homeless in LA streets are actually veterans were cannon fodder for Israel.
Lerch–I am pedantic and have to say “Whiteocide” is not a permissible word, having components from two different language-groups, and the “o” is not really doing anything
I wonder how many movies Hollyweed will produce, glamorizing this latest war of the talmudic communists – the ‘good guys’ – against what’s left of the seemingly withering, Christ affirming white race-‘the bad guys’.
al on August 8, 2024 at 5:05 pm
to MM: some of those homeless in LA streets are actually veterans were cannon fodder for Israel.
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COMMENT:
Saw an interview of Oakland California homeless camp
Some of the people there are professionals like MD’s……this can hit A-N-Y-O-N- E
“Homo albinuscide” or just “Albinuscide,” Lewis – there’s no need for me to tell you that it means the “killing of white men” – especially while I know that you know that I’m making it up anyway.
WELCOME TO COMMUNIST BRITAIN
Rule one is the suppression of all freedoms
The first is Economic, banks are closing all branches
The communist seizure of peoples money happened in Germany
until a certain Mr Hitler puta stop to it, they tried to take away our cash here
and will soon try another method
Stopping what you say and write, the communist system in East Germany
when at the wars end the communists were allowed to steal half of Germany
every family had an agent to report what was said, and punishments were severe
The communist propaganda machine here, is the BBC, and we pay a licence to hide up the crimes
against our children of Jimmy Savile Stephen Fry etc, Kier Starmer was in prime position to hide up all sex crimes
Since the 1930s every BBC chief director has been jew as the BBC is pure Rothschild.
Before the fall of communism in Russia the middle lane of all roads could only be used by Party officials
travel restrictions were universal, the high streets in the UK have massive shop closures every week, they want you
to stay home and buy online, as the plans are for drones to deliver you your weekly shopping
special permits are in the pipeline for anyone who wants to travel outside their zone
Stalin used starvation as a weapon against his people, thats why Hitlers forces were welcomed as they fed the people
but the supply lines from Germany were so long they were vulnerable, the food trucks were seen as a greater target
for the RAF than weapons deliveries, a plan here is already in play to starve the UK people, t
e jew supermarkets will close their doors Tesco whistleblowers have told us ” grow your own ”
The Mandelson plan, Tony Blairs phones were tapped by several experts and this gave info on adding chemicals to
food and water to make men homosexual and women lesbian, this was to drop the birth rate almost to zero
this was done in areas of Russia
New Labour drew up the plan for England to be broken up into 8 regional zones headed by a Czar
Most folk supported leaving the EU to take control of our borders and stop the governments migrant swamping
in out communities,
The present riots where the people are rising up against communism is run by government agencies,
then they have reason for a massive clamp down, wait for it its coming
Communist doctrine demands the mixing up of all people as spoken of by Stalin
the Anglo Saxon white race has been chosen to be the first to be eliminated
In the 1960s Lobsang rampa described eloquently ” the race of tan” he whistleblew that the agenda was for
the whole world to race mix until everyone was tan coloured, except for the jews they were to remain pure.
Make your voice heard
” it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees”
The State cares about what citizens want? Is this something new?
Here is news for some people. America will never be Great until the majority of Americans understand the facts about WWII and how Americans were responsible for losing it, which is now destroying the entire world.
That understood, Americans must also speak out about Israel, refuse to support any politician or influencer who panders for the Pirate State, and demand that all Jewish criminals and their American tools be punished with the full force of the law.
Hopefully this means more and more Americans have found out what Israel did in June, 1967, when it murdered 34 sailors on the USS Liberty, afterwhich, Liberty survivers were ordered not to disclose that Israel was the culprit by the Johnson Administration…plus Israel’s role in 9-11, the “5 dancing Israelis” and al that. Sorry, Christian Zionists, but your “strong delusion” is not working the way it used to as more youth are turning against your “stand with Israel” genocidal crapola!
I sometimes wish I was an ostrich so that I could bury my head in the sand instead of thinking about all this misery going on in the world!🤢