His popularity dropped from 82% to 38% in seven weeks
A new poll released by the Hebrew-language Channel 2 news site on Monday reveals that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's approval rating has fallen as a "casualty" in the faltering Operation Protective Edge.
The poll, conducted by Shiluv Millward Brown and iPanel for the news source, found in the last four days Netanyahu's support has taken a sharp nose-dive.
A mere 38% of Israelis responded that they are satisfied with Netanyahu, as opposed to 50% who are dissatisfied. Just four days earlier, Netanyahu's support stood at 55%.
The sudden dive corresponds to a period during which four-year-old Daniel Tragerman hy''d was murdered by mortar fire in his Kibbutz Nahal Oz home last Friday, possibly contributing to a feeling of government neglect in providing security to its citizens.
The poll adds that three weeks ago Netanyahu's support was at 63%; towards the beginning of the operation early last month when the IDF began its ground entry to Gaza that it later withdrew, that support was at a whopping 82%.
A University of Haifa poll late last month likewise found that Netanyahu's support had spiked at the start of the operation, showing that 65% were "very satisfied" with Netanyahu's handling of the operation, 20% were "satisfied" and only 10% "not satisfied."
However, that support has dipped as Netanyahu continues to be unable to take decisive action against Hamas in an operation that started July 8, while making numerous ceasefire agreements that Hamas repeatedly breaks, and "softening" ministers to Israeli concessions.
Ironically, US President Barack Obama told the New York Times earlier this month in an interview that Netanyahu had too much public support, and that he needed internal pressure - not to defend Israel, but rather to make land concessions to the Palestinian Authority (PA).If Netanyahu wants to stay in office, he has to stop listening to Obama and finish the job. And if Obama doesn't want to find himself sitting in the oval office next to Naftali Bennett or Avigdor Lieberman, he is going to have to bite his lip and let Netanyahu finish the job. The Israeli public is furious and is not in the mood to make any concessions to the 'Palestinians,' to Hamas or to anyone else. And the longer this goes on, the less likely that they will favor any concessions to the 'Palestinians' in Judea and Samaria either. Everyone in this country knows that the IDF is capable of finishing the job - if only they were allowed to finish it.
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JPost adds:
Regarding whether to start the school year if rocket fire continues, 18% said to open schools all over the country, 63% said school should begin everywhere except the South, and 15% said all schools in the country should remain closed.
Labels: Avigdor Lieberman, Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Gaza envelope, Hamas, IDF, Israeli polls, Naftali Bennett, Operation Protective Edge
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:09 AM
4 Comments:
And are any news outlets or blogs informing Israelis of the Republican opposition figures, scarce, but there, who actually DO support Israel? Or is the U.S. just to be chucked out altogether, without trying the other party?
Obama is a political and cultural curse, but his days are numbered and Israel has the strong support of Congress and the American people. Hamas must be eradicated and now is the time for Israel to do it. I applaud the Israeli people for their criticism of Netanyahu and suspect that self-preservation may provide the motive he needs to "screw up his courage to the sticking point."
I would suggest that after dynamiting the tunnel linings the Israelis pump sea water down into the tunnels. Properly applied the sea water would cause the earth to settle into the tunnels, filling them with dirt. Of course as the dirt settles sinkholes will form. The Palestinians know where the dirt is that came from the tunnels, they can put it back. So BB, finish the job.
If PM Netanyahu is hesitating because what follows Hamas would be even worse, then I want to hear about that. Otherwise, some enterprising "journalists" need to find out what $lu$h allocations are in process of allocation. Follow the money. (It also is happening inside the U.S.; the $lu$h gets people to sit still, if not be onboard, for terrible things.)
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