Best hope for peace [View All]

doesn't seem to have a chance.

In the Pew Research Center's global opinion survey released last June, which polled more than 15,000 people in 21 countries, no less significant were the responses to the question whether the US is too supportive of Israel. In 20 of the 21 countries surveyed (notably INCLUDING) Israel, most of those polled said "yes."

"Israel's support for this proposition should not come as a complete surprise. Israelis have to live there. While their lives ...have not been the living hell experienced by the Palestinians, they have still become unpleasant, insecure and stressful."

"Those Israelis who feel that America is too supportive of Israel presumeably can see that America's involvement since 1967 has not advanced the cause of peace but, rather, has blocked it,..."

"No American national interest is served by Israel's continuing occupation. American supporters of the occupation tend to be Christian fundamentalists concered about being personally 'raptured' up to heaven...,Jews who feel personally guilty to be living...in America rather than having emigrated to Israel/Palestine, or politicians interested only in preserving or furthering their personal careers by not offending the other two groups."

"The best hope for peace would be total American disengagement--and the sooner the better...Having never been an 'honest broker,' the US would at least become an honest bystander."

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