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While the American Congress pumps out resolutions declaring that Israel can do whatever it wants to whoever it wants and generally tripping over itself to suck money out of AIPAC’s teats, the American public has steadily moved to a more sensible postion on the Israel-Palestine situation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that three-quarters of Americans think that Israel should not build settlements in the Palestinian territories. This is up 23 points from when this question was last asked in 2002.<\/p>\n

“Americans are showing increasing impatience with Israel for building settlements,” comments Steven Kull, director of WorldPublicOpinion.org. “Even the third of Americans who sympathize with Israel more than the Palestinians oppose the settlements.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See Also:<\/strong> Israel at 61: Denial of Catastrophe is at the root of the \u2018conflict\u2019<\/a>, The Real Tragedy in Israel<\/a>, Modern Portraits Of Evil<\/a>, Palestine: Most Americans opposed to settlements in the Palestinian territories<\/a>, 12 Palestinians injured after settler rampage in Urif village<\/a>, Israel defies global demand over “settlements”<\/a>, The Right to Exist<\/a>, and Israel warns EU to tone down its criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[tags]israeli settlements, public polling, israel palestine, west bank, gaza, settlements in the west bank, settlements in palestine, american opinions, poll on american position, american positions on the middle east, palestinian territories[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the American Congress pumps out resolutions declaring that Israel can do whatever it wants to whoever it wants and generally tripping over itself to suck money out of AIPAC’s teats, the American public has steadily moved to a more sensible postion on the Israel-Palestine situation: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that three-quarters of Americans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe American Public Opposes Israeli Settlements<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that three-quarters of Americans think that Israel should not build settlements in the Palestinian territories.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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