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.
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…
and you’re still not offering a realistic alternative.
Not supporting Israel so that Bibi actually has to hold an election again instead of constantly starting new rules…
You know hes facing a corruption trial that will put him in jail. And his excuse to not hold elections is all the wars/genocides he keeps taking?
Like, that’s 100% an option…
We can at the least not help them do it.