{"id":459263,"date":"2010-03-22T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80014"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:48:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:48:06","slug":"new-poll-shows-mideast-is-increasingly-a-partisan-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459263","title":{"rendered":"New Poll Shows Mideast Is Increasingly a Partisan Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

You wouldn’t know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year’s AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That’s according to a soon-to-be-released poll by the Arab-American Institute.<\/p>\n

In a capsule summary ahead of the full release of the poll on Thursday, AAI’s James Zogby finds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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42% of Democrats had a favorable rating of Israel compared to 92% of Republicans resulting in a 50% gap between the parties.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the gap is higher in this poll, the finding is consistent with a recent Gallup poll that had 53% of Democrats with a favorable view compared to 80 % of Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That partisan gap does not translate into sympathy with the Palestinians, according to AAI. But Zogby’s summary says that a “plurality or slight majority” agree that an \u201cinability to prevent Israel\u2019s settlement expansion makes the U.S. less respected in the world.” In other words, it’s a poll soon to be denounced by Abraham Foxman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You wouldn’t know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year’s AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That’s according to a soon-to-be-released poll by the Arab-American Institute. In a capsule summary ahead of the full release of the poll on Thursday, AAI’s James Zogby finds: 42% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}