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Americans' sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have shifted dramatically, new poll shows (apnews.com)

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American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians, according to new Gallup polling, after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis.

That shift accelerated during the war in Gaza. Three years ago, 54% of Americans sympathized more with the Israelis, compared to 31% for the Palestinians.

Now, their support is about evenly balanced, with 41% saying their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians, and only 36% saying the same about the Israelis.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 58 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (5 children)

My perception going back decades was that Israel was beset on all sides by people who wanted to destroy it, and it was a big shit show, and they did problematic stuff but that's what they had to do to stay alive because other nations wouldn't even acknowledge their right to exist.

That is very much not my perception any more. There is no sort of hand waving away their culpability in intentional genocide. They know better than anyone the kind of evil they are inflicting, and they continue to do so.

I don't in any way condone Hamas or their tactics, but I get it. They were being slow-genocided for decades and they strike back with the very limited means that are available to them. Asymmetrical warfare is fucking ugly. It's ugly to do, it's ugly to fight against. But I get they needed to upset the status quo. I think in that they succeeded by showing the world exactly who Israel is. I hope the future is kinder to the Palestinian people than the past has been.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 hours ago

I’m very much in the same boat. Much of the discussion I’ve had on the topic in the past has centered around how they were thrust into a weird and fucked up geopolitical situation as a direct fallout of the Holocaust and one of the final gasps of overt British colonialism… but these days, it’s WAY harder to use those facts as an excuse anymore (as in: the behavior of the Israeli government has gone so far beyond pragmatic defensive measures that could be reasonably appropriate to that context, to the point that it now looks and feels deeply hypocritical with regards to how things started for Israel in the first place).

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago

Great post, speaks for a lot of us.

[–] core@leminal.space 4 points 4 hours ago

Yes, growing up the narrative was very much Israel is a heroic underdog valiantly fighting to exist while everyone else in the Middle East tries to destroy them with everything they have. And the US has to help them b/c Holocaust, Christianity, strategic military value, hand wave reasons.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Do you condemn the IDF for carrying out the Hannibal Directive and killing all those Israelis on October 7th?

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think they effectively already answered this. What point are you trying to make?

[–] manxu@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Add to that that with Syria, the last external threat to Israel is gone. It's like Israeli politicians and the military still think Israel is the David threatened by a Goliath, when they have become the Goliath and their actions against civilians now look what a superior force does to a helpless victim.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

David is an apt comparison actually, celebrated for genociding the Amakelites but made out to be the underdog by history written by the victors.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago

They were Goliath from day one, notice how they won every single war in short order, none were even close, because they've superior technology, the most advanced weaponry in the world, without even paying for most of it.

You say still david, they never were, and only a sheep would have thought so.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

That's why they're picking fights with Iran. You wouldn't do that if you were actually scared

[–] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago

Because people who are not happy with the slaughtering of arabs/muslims (even those racists who hate arabs) are the same who have empathy and logic that human suffering is bad and those who inflict it are evil, no matter the race or religion.