US Opinion On Israel Shifts--And May Shift Some More

My Right Word writes:

U.S. opinion on the Middle East is not monolithic, nor is it frozen in time. Since 1967, it has undergone significant shifts, with some groups becoming more favorable toward Israel and others less so. Considerably fewer African Americans stand with the Likud Party today than stood with the Jewish army in World War II. More changes may come. A Palestinian and Arab leadership more sensitive to the values and political priorities of the American political culture could develop new and more effective tactics designed to weaken, rather than strengthen, American support for the Jewish state. An end to terrorist attacks, for example, coupled with well-organized and disciplined nonviolent civil resistance, might alter Jacksonian perceptions of the Palestinian struggle.

Read the whole thing--and check out "The New Israel and the Old: Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State" by Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, who gives a detailed overview of the development of US opinion about Israel.

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