GIVE THEM A STATE AND GET IT OVER WITH :

Poll shows Americans' support for Israel in decline (Janine Zacharia, June 13, 2002, Jerusalem Post)

The number of Americans who believe the US supports Israel too much has climbed since last fall, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

Fifty percent of those polled said the US either supports Israel the right amount or too little. But 43% said the US gives too much support to Israel, a substantial increase from last October when the question was first asked. Then, only 29% said the US gives too much support to Israel and a larger majority 67% said support was about right or lacking.

"These figures represent a significant decline in a pro-Israeli point of view over the last eight months," an analysis put out by Gallup said.

When broken down by party affiliation, more of the Democrats polled (51%) than Republicans (36%) said US support for Israel is too great. Forty-two percent of Democrats said the support is about right or too little versus 59% of Republicans who said the support is about right or too little.

It's simply a fact of life in the modern Wilsonian world that if you have a large enough ethnic group gathered in one place they eventually get their own state. Israel should just yield to the inevitable, tell Arafat what his borders are and tell him if they wants more they have to take it through warfare, like any other nation.

Interesting how Republican Americans are now the bulwark of Israeli support abroad.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 14, 2002 7:57 AM