WASHINGTON — America is as strongly pro-Israel as at any time in the past three decades, according to a recent report by Gallup. Sixty-four percent of Americans say their sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lie more with the Israelis, tying the high previously recorded in 2013 and 1991. Gallup began tracking views of the conflict since 1988.
The latest survey comes as the Trump administration announced in December 2017 its decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and is reportedly finalizing its broader Middle East peace plan.
Gallup found that just 19 percent of Americans today sympathize more with the Palestinians than with the Israelis, up slightly from the 15 percent measured in 1988. The percentage of Americans who remain neutral in their position on the conflict (16 percent) has been shrinking as more Americans take positions on the dispute. (TAB)
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