Democrat Support Dwindling for the Jewish State

By Paul Miller
Edited by IHC staff, www.infoisrael.net

A Gallup poll released earlier this month shows that 59% of Americans support Israel while only 15% favor the Palestinians. At first glance these numbers are very encouraging. Support for Israel is at its highest point since the Gulf War, while support for the Palestinians has only been lower immediately after 11 September. Friends of the Jewish state should rejoice at news of this overwhelming support. However, one figure from this poll shows that support for Israel can be compromised with one election.

Last week’s results showed that 77% of Republicans support Israel. This number is not surprising since the Bush administration and the current Republican controlled congress have supported Israel like a mother's unconditional love for her child. The discouraging figure is that support among Democrats has dwindled to 50%. Friends of the Jewish state need to ask “why.”

The evil entity that has made Democrats weak on Israel has many labels. Radical left, Extreme left, Secular left are all fitting names when describing Democrats who now control the party and view Israel as an extension of what they really despise...America.

I can see the leftists now damning me because I had the chutzpah to state the obvious. The common line these self-labeled “Progressives” use is “how dare you call us unpatriotic for disagreeing with the war in Iraq.” The war in Iraq is not why they dislike America, but it is at the top of their complaint list. Progressives don’t just despise the government or the Bush administration over a difference of opinion, they disagree, in their own warped view, with what this country stands for and one of those ideas is Israel.

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