Israel Matzav

Maybe Pew asks the wrong people

I was sent a link to a CNN blog that cited a Pew poll that claims that 42% of all Americans want the US to recognize a 'Palestinian state.'

A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Washington Post found that while more Americans sympathize with Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a plurality of Americans still supported the U.S. recognizing Palestine as an independent state. In the poll of more than 1,000 Americans conducted over three days in mid-September, Israel garnered more sympathy than the Palestinians by a four to one margin (40 percent to 10 percent). But more than four in 10 Americans (42 percent) support the U.S. recognizing an independent Palestinian state, with about a quarter (26 percent) opposed to such an action. The chart below, however, shows a sharp partisan divide over the issue:

I'm not going to give you the chart that they put at the bottom of that blog. Instead, I'm going to give you the chart that showed up when I voted.



Doesn't seem like much of a divide at all, does it? 'Nuff said.

Labels: Palestinian state

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:49 AM