American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians, according to new Gallup polling, after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis.

That shift accelerated during the war in Gaza. Three years ago, 54% of Americans sympathized more with the Israelis, compared to 31% for the Palestinians.

Now, their support is about evenly balanced, with 41% saying their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians, and only 36% saying the same about the Israelis.

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Israel was beset on all sides by people who wanted to destroy it, and it was a big shit show, and they did problematic stuff but that’s what they had to do to stay alive because other nations wouldn’t even acknowledge their right to exist.

    This basically describes hamas in Gaza now.

    There’s a lot of parallels between Israel during the six day war and hamas during Oct 7. Both were surrounded by hostile country/s who would not recognize their right to exist and had an army ready to attack on their borders and were blockading them, though Israel was only being blockaded on one port. Then they launch a surprise attack on their neighbors. The difference is Israel succeeded and Hamas didn’t.

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      It’s been an imperialist settler colonialist project since day one the religious aspect was just convenient to roll into the racialized supremisist ideology that justifies annexation of land and genocide of the indigenous that drives the imperial colonization machine