Polling continues to show that the majority of Americans favor a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, a position the Biden administration has rejected.
The latest poll from Data for Progress found that 61% of American voters support the idea of the US calling for a “permanent” ceasefire in Gaza and a general de-escalation of violence, including 76% of Democrats, 49% of Republicans, and 57% of independent or third-party voters.
When presented with arguments for and against the idea of a ceasefire, 52% of respondents still supported a permanent truce, while 34% opposed the idea, and 14% said they didn’t know what position to take.
The poll was conducted from November 22 to 25 and surveyed 1,201 likely American voters. An earlier poll conducted by Data for Progress in October found stronger support for the US calling for a ceasefire, with 66% of respondents in favor, but it did not use the term “permanent” when posing the question.
A poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos last month found that 68% of Americans agreed with the statement “Israel should call a ceasefire and try to negotiate,” including three-quarters of Democrats and half of Republicans.”
The Reuters/Ipsos also found little support for the US arming Israel. Just 31% of respondents said they supported sending Israel weapons, while 43% opposed the idea.
The US has supported Israel’s onslaught in Gaza since it was unleashed in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack with near-daily weapons shipments, including thousands of 2,000-pound bombs. Despite the massive civilian casualties, the US maintains that military aid is unconditional.
The Israeli Government is safe and effective and certainly will lesson the impact of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Since when does the US government care what the majority of the American people want?
One third of Americans support the genocide. Nazi party in Germany had about the same support of the voters when Hitler was made the chancellor of Germany. One third of the voters + the support of the financial elite is definitely enough for establishing a fascist regime.
By the way, Trump is even more pro-Zionist and more anti Iran than Biden.
Shit like this didn’t happen on Trump’s watch.. Just sayin’
Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital. Also he recognized Golan Heights as Israeli territory. He ordered Tomahawk attack on Syria without any reasonable justification. His support of the massacre in Yemen was absolutely disgusting. His priority was to please Israel and MIC. I think, Trump disappointed a lot of those who voted for him. His anti-Chinese and anti-Iran rhetoric is really stupid.
All true but nothing there like what’s going on now.
Nothing short of the holocaust itself matches this.
Iraq was worse. Only in Mosul about ten thousand civilians were killed. Of course WW II genocide was of a much greater scale. Disgusting thing about Gaza is the cynical calculation and absolute indifference for the human suffering.
That is correct. Only a sick evil nation would bomb hospitals, schools, UN facilities. Sicker is the UN, the rest of the world, letting Israel get away with it.
Only a sick world would deny the October 7 Pogrom,with the taking of women and children into captivity, massacres of peaceful families,and firing missiles at cities and villages.
Nobody denies that but how you act defines you. Prisons are full of once innocent people who were abused and chose to become awful people themselves.
How many of those “innocent” victims were soldiers and/or were killed by the IDF?
It’s not the rest of the world.
The UN has no meaningful authority except for that of the Security Council, which is fairly limited. And the Security Council is effectively controlled by the veto power of the permanent members. The US and UK have never permitted meaningful UN action against Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians.
What Germany and Israel have in common is they’re going for 100 % extermination. Like the Nazis before them, the Israelis started with removal and are ending with murder.
You forgot the assassination of Soleimani. Who was on a peace mission in Iraq.
And don’t forget the sanctions Trump put on Iran and Syria. Sanctions are acts of war.
Let’s not forget that he made John Bolton National Security Advisor. Then Haskel, an obvious psychopath, was made head of the CIA.
There is something seriously wrong with this country when these types end up running everything.
Netanyahu wanted Trump elected. Israel tried to setup several meetings with him but Trump wisely for legal reasons dodged them. Stone became the intermediary instead. This is now known fact. What isn’t is whether the redacted portions of the Mueller report (and also congressional investigation) deals with Israel. Many claim it does.
Netanyahu wanted Trump elected.
True although I’m sure he hedged his bets. The thing is Trump feels betrayed by Netanyahu post election and he’s one to hold a grudge and that’s a good thing in this case.
But Jan 6 happen on Trump’s watch. Oh wait, I forgot, it was his idea.
You’re confusing the final scene in Animal House with the Final Solution.
I wouldn’t say more, but equal.
Yes. He was gracious enough to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Genocide Joe would be wise to listen to this poll.
Are you crazy? Drooling Joseph has been in love with the Zionists in Israel since 1973. Out of sight, he and Bibi probably lock lips.
Biden is a lifelong Zionist, for sure. But he and Netanyahu do not like each other personally, at all. Biden has often pretended to, but the pretense has never been even close to believable.
That’s not going to endanger US support for Israeli war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide, of course.
I respectfully disagree. As a Democratic Party politician, getting elected is the ultimate value.
Historically, Democrats and the neocon foreign policy establishment have successfully used declared “love with the Zionists in Israel” for domestic political advantage.
But, imo…
…Israel’s progressive metamorphosis into a far right …
…younger US Americans’ – Jews important among them – progressive break up with Israel over its apartheid oppression of Palestinians…
…and, now, Israel’s appalling, prolonged genocidal collective punishment of Gaza civilians…
…make the Democratic Party’s unconditional support for Israel a liability.
Upshot? The Democratic Party wants to have it both ways – ‘demanding’ Israeli restraint that is empty due to continued ‘unconditional support.’ But imo this is likely to fail, now and in the future:
in the near-term, this US foreign policy has alienated key electorates in key states, making a Biden loss likely; and
in the long-term, I hopefully believe the ongoing and increasingly revealed horror and magnitude of Israel’s US-abetted crimes against humanity will ramify into permanent political fallout – fallout that makes it politically impossible for the Democratic Party to win on its past ‘I heart Israel’ platform.
Many you g Jews are “progressive”,until someone calls them a dirty name.
Cease Fire with medical care, food, water, shelter, communications, and reparations for the loss of loved ones, with Bibi in the Dock, right alongside his bosom buddy in DC.
That would do for starters.
The U.K. is on board too. Drone flights. Materials support. It was the British that created this mess in 1948, for geopolitical purposes, as regarding empire, the fading British empire. It was also the British that carved Kuwait out of Iraq.
The number of problems created by the British empire are legion. An ugly creation serving the needs of the White Man’s Burden, in short, racists.
The people’s voice against corrupt politicians.
Who will be heard?
The people or the oligarchy?
Seeing as how the system was constructed for and by the oligarchy … as Carlin said, it’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
Imagine what the numbers would be if people were actually informed instead of being fed propaganda on a constant basis.
That is why the internet is convenient, but a curse.
The truth has been available. I stopped believing state fairy tales about how necessary wars and interventions were by time I was 15 years old. That was when the Viet Nam war was nearing it’s peak. I haven’t believed the bs since.
Support for truce dropped when presented with arguments? What the crap kind of arguments were people being presented with FFS?
So we started with 68% opposed, then it went to 66%, and now it’s down to 61%.
So the trend is clear: Americans don’t give a shit about genocide. Message received. Ad rest assured the rest of the world already got the message over the last few decades.
No. Different polls, different pollster in one case, different times. And (unreported here) margins of error.
No trend is clear.
The empire doesn’t care what Americans think.
Who cares if Americans want a ceasefire or not.
A good poll would be:
Does Hamas want a permanent ceasefire?
I think it is important for elected officials to know what we think and why. We give Israel a sh-t ton of money, which makes us partially responsible in this quagmire.
Elected Officials do not give a rats backside to what you think, its very cute you think this though.
This might actually mean something if we had a Republic. Unfortunately the federal government is nothing more than an oligarchy dominated by a few, and increasingly foreign, monied interests
I am all for a cease fire and removal of the IDF from Gaza once the hostages are release and accounted for.
All hostages though right? including the thousands of hostages held by Israel? I know you don’t mean them.
And what if Hamas wont release the hostages? after all they took the hostages in the first place to leverage the release of Palestinian hostages held by Israel. The crimes against humanity, the ethnic cleansing, the mass murder, the genocide goes on right?
So you are ok that Israel can ethnically cleanse/genocide the Palestinian people to get the Israeli hostages back. But against Hamas holding Israeli hostages to get Palestinian hostages back right?
But not racist/anti-semitic at all.
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced on 5 December Israel’s decision to revoke the resident visa of UN humanitarian coordinator Lynn Hastings. The Israeli foreign minister’s remarks came on the heels of comments made by Hastings, in which she voiced concern for the Palestinian people after Israel resumed indiscriminate attacks on residential neighborhoods, hospitals, and UN shelters.
Apparently when the UN speaks to protect the civilians of Gaza in residential neighborhoods, hospitals, and UN shelters, the UN is being Anti-Semitic.
According to Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, Palestinian Semites are just Subhuman Animals. For the Palestinian people the “Star of David” is no better than the “Swastika”.
Israeli military surveillance video from the Gaza border from 7 October has disappeared. The UN must hold an investigation of the events on 7th October. Benjamin Netanyahu has been proven to be lying to us about the events on the 7th October. Evidence now suggests that the IDF purposely murdered hundreds of Israeli’s that day and then blamed Hamas for their deaths.