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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Poll: American voters’ support of Israel drops

JTA
American voters' support for Israel has dropped 20 percent in the past nine months, a new survey found.

Some 49 percent of American voters call themselves supporters of Israel, down from 69 percent last September, according to the poll conducted for The Israel Project.The number of voters who called themselves undecided rose during that same period, and the number of Palestinian supporters remained steady at 7 percent. 

The number of Israel supporters hit a low of 38 percent immediately following the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, with an equal rise in undecided voters.  Full story