cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43828737
Michelle Goldberg Feb. 27, 2026, 6:47 p.m. ET
https://archive.ph/kOzWb#selection-4499.0-4501.12
It’s been obvious for some time that Americans are souring on Israel, but a Gallup poll that came out on Friday marks a turning point. For the first time in the poll’s 25-year history, it found, more Americans sympathize with the Palestinians than with the Israelis. The shift wasn’t just among Democrats, whose opinion of Israel has been in free fall in recent years. According to Gallup, only 30 percent of independents now sympathize with Israel; 41 percent sympathize with the Palestinians. Among adults under 35, support for Israel has fallen to a record low of 23 percent. With numbers like this, bipartisan backing for Israel, long a constant in American politics, will in time become unsustainable.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel famously prides himself on his ability to shape American policy. As he said in a secretly recorded 2001 conversation, “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.” Yet he has presided over an ongoing collapse in American Zionism and could eventually go down in history as the prime minister who lost Israel’s most important ally.
Lol MF its always been a problem. We still haven’t answered for attempts at genocide in the north American continent, let alone abroad.
The difference Israel is making is pushing an entire people for multiple generations to the brink to feel no option left but to fight back and then suddenly say “Oh geez, how terrible. Better flatten your entire civilian population.” Your argument here stinks of “but do you condemn Hamas” a full 2.5 years later and the blood of 10x the Palestinians and debunked reporting of what happened.
Be better, yo.
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I’m bringing this to the attention of the DB0 and AN admins. this is a clear call for ethnic cleansing and you should be banned from lemmy.ca for being a horrible person who supports that.
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no, you’ll die a nobody who advocated for a genocide that is increasingly unpopular. you’ll die after having seen the american people finally throw off the shackles of Israeli control of US politicians. you’ll die cursing the inevitable demise of the zionist state.
and when you die, the only good you will have done the world in your entire sad, miserable little racist life, is to leave it.
That’s funny. There’s no shackles to break off. This isn’t a 40 year bribery scandal, it’s a proxy war. No different than the ones fought in Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine, Afghanistan, or elsewhere.
Israel can’t even “buy” Canadian politicians, there’s no super pacs, there’s no corporate donations, there’s almost no influence here from them.
Yet the Canadian governments for the last few decades, Conservative AND Liberal, have always supported Israel against Iran. They STILL support Israel, despite it being massively unpopular among their voters and them losing votes over it.
Because once they become MPs, they get educated on what’s really happening and why it’s important.
I almost want your side to win sometimes, so that when the inevitable worse situation occurs a new generation can be educated on why violence is sometimes necessary to prevent far worse violence. It was a lesson learned through the sacrifice of tens of millions in the world wars, and yet it has been forgotten by those who fail to learn from history.
Literally a fucking crime against humanity…
And obviously still genocide
The term “forcible transfer” describes the forced relocation of civilian populations as part of an organized offensive against that population. It is a crime against humanity punishable by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The fifth punishable act of genocide is the forcible transfer of children from one protected group to another. The definition was part of a draft provided by the UN Secretariat that was used as the foundation for the 1948-adopted Genocide Convention.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/forcible_transfer
So is genocide, pick one.
There isn’t a peaceful option remaining at this point. Anyone who thinks there is hasn’t been paying attention the last 80 years of history.
Yes…
I’m aware genocide is genocide, just like genocide is…
What don’t you understand about the fact that you’re arguing for genocide?
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So to be clear:
You now understandstand that you were calling for an ongoing genocide, to genocide even more people.
That has not changed your opinion, and you still want more genocide?
I want people to stop killing each other. If it means genocide (displacing people) to prevent more genocide (killing people) as a REALISTIC answer, then yes. That’s what I want to see happen.
Nobody else here giving any real answers other than wishful thinking.
Do you really believe, that if everyone stopped supporting Israel and they lost all basic ability to hurt anyone, all the groups that are attacking Israel are going to magically stop.
Do you actually think that’s what would happen?
If you do, I have a bridge to sell you.
If everyone within 50 miles of Israel just left and let Bibi have it, he’d say that they need to secure the new border and start attacking their new neighbors…
You’re finally admitting that you’ve been advocating to increase the number of people that Israel is committing genocide against, so maybe you’ll start to understand that this scenario has been happening since Israel was formed
Their borders grow and then they claim they’re gonna be attacked and have to attack first.
But for some reason you keep repeating that they’re always being attacked.
And you’re still arguing for genocide…
What the actual fuck are you on about. You are literally yada-ing the destruction of a people.
What completely peaceful solution is realistic?
If people don’t get along, you separate them.
Everyone whining about Israel just stopping is completely ignoring the fact that other people will keep attacking them.