Gallup national poll: widening partisan gap on Israel/Palestine

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It's kind of surprising that the change is that low when an American President is basically waging a diplomatic offensive against Israel. Good news in the long run.

From the outside it looks like the American president is as strongly supportive of Israel as ever. I guess, when the competition is on who supports the Israeli right wing more, then going from 12 to 11.9999 on a 10-point scale sounds like treason, but it would be worthwhile to remember, that it is still a pretty much unqualified support of a foreign government: something no other US ally remotely enjoys.

[ag]

It's kind of surprising that the change is that low when an American President is basically waging a diplomatic offensive against Israel. Good news in the long run.

lmao what are you talking about

In 2009, he unilaterally changed the US' definition Israel's borders, declared Jewish homes in Jewish areas of Jerusalem to be "settlements", and then spent weeks publicly denouncing Israel. It took his own party telling him to stop demonizing a US ally to get him to stop, and he's held a grudge ever since.

And when did the US - or anybody else outside Israel - have any other definition of Israeli borders?

Since when is restating an old policy - and, for that matter, one reiterated by pretty much every US president (including, for instance, both Bushes) - called a "change"?