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Poll Reveals That Most Americans Aren’t Zionists

by IRmep
A poll reveals the difference between American identification with Israel and the official positions taken by both major political parties.

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A majority of American adults – 70.3 percent – do not consider themselves Zionists when defined as "A Zionist is a person who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel." Only 24.9 percent say, "I consider myself a Zionist" while 4.8% provided other responses.
by American reality
About 50% of Americans never vote in any presidential general election, and 75% do not vote in the rest of the elections. Thus, 24% support for Nazi Israel becomes at least 50% support in a presidential general election (held in November, once every 4 years).

The people who do not vote are overwhelmingly the workingclass, the 80% of Americans who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year. Most non-voters have no idea what is going on in the world and could care less. The concern of the workingclass is the paycheck. Some 50% of Americans live in poverty, meaning they cannot provide $2,000 within 30 days to pay for an emergency. Some 80% of Americans, including the 50% in poverty, live from paycheck to paycheck.

A presidential race in a large country like the US is always a referendum on the economy. When a government cannot guarantee food, clothing, shelter and medical care to most of the people, it falls.

To most people, Israel may as well be the moon. We do what we can to connect the $4 billion a year of our tax dollars going to Israel to poverty at home, and the use of Israel to train the police, the terrorists at home.
The "problem" is that 74% is
a) all over the place on every other issue
b) for only a tiny fraction of them is their anti-Zionist position of much importance compared to all their other issues.

On the other hand, in the case of the "Zionists"
a) For a significant fraction of them, THIS ISSUE is more important (and will over-ride) other issues. In other words, they will support a politician (or oppose a politician) based on THIS issue in spite of their other issues.

In THAT situation, a "single issue pressure group" of just a few percent can always get all politicians to support that issue UNLESS opposed by a pressure group on the other side equally single issue.

Do you understand what I am saying? That 74% of antis does NOT offer many, if any voters to a politician's side should that politician change to an anti position << in other words, that would gain the votes of few voters who were opposed to that candidate over other the issues >> On the other hand, it would cost the votes of many of the pro-Israel votes regardless of their prefrence for this candidate on the other issues.

There are only a couple of districts in the country where a politician can gain votes by being anti Israel. Almost everywhere else gains votes by being for Israel. No mystery at all.

If you want to do a proper "poll" on this, you need to prepare a "survey" which:
a) Randomly divides the sample population into two groups.
b) Prepare surveys A and B. Each survey ask to pick "which candidate would you vote for" where all the information given about the candidates is their position on say ten-twenty burning issues of they day << gun control, abortion, same sex marriage, health care, taxes, etc. etc. >> and include as one of the issues a pro and anti Israel position switching just this between A and B.
What do you see happen?
by data
Annual Gallup poll, asking: "In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?"

This year's result:

Israelis: 62%
Palestinians: 19%
Both (my choice): 5%
Neither: 6%
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