The ADL Writes: A national telephone survey of 1,754 adults conducted October 13-23 by Marttila Strategies of Washington, D.C. and Boston, found that a clear majority of Americans – 63 percent – say Israel is a “crucial ally” and its relationship with the United States does not hurt the U.S. image in the rest of the world.
The findings show that a majority of the American people oppose the Palestinian effort to get the United Nations to support unilaterally a Palestinian state and back direct negotiations between the parties as the correct path to peace.
By decisive margins, the ADL survey found Americans continue to sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians when it comes to the Palestinian-Israel conflict. Nearly half of all Americans say they sympathize with Israel, as opposed to only 18 percent who say they sympathize with the Palestinians. This represents a slight increase from the 45 percent of Americans who sympathized with Israel in similar polls taken in 2009 and 2007.
Between others, 50% support the idea that the U.S. should attack Iran over its weapons program, and 57% back such an attack by Israel.
The survey has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent.
