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Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to a Smith Research poll sponsored by the Jerusalem Post, which reported the results. 50% of those sampled consider the policies of Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and 36% said the policies were neutral. 8% did not express an opinion.

The poll, with a margin of error of 4.5%, was conducted among a representative sample of 500 Israeli Jewish adults this week, following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech in which he expressed his support for a demilitarized Palestinian state and after Obama's Cairo speech. The results contrasted sharply to the previous poll published May 17, on the eve of the meeting between Netanyahu and Obama at the White House, in which 31% considered the Obama administration pro-Israel, 14% considered it pro-Palestinian and 40% said it was neutral.

A massive majority of Israeli support continued growth within large settlement blocs, a position that the Obama Administration has explicitly opposed. 69% of Israel want building to continue there, as opposed to 23%, who said it should be stopped.

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Robert Bernier Comment by Robert Bernier on June 20, 2009 at 8:57am
Are the American our allies ?...
The Obama Administration’s search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the PA resembles Lord Charles Bowen’s “blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat – which isn’t there”. The CIA has apparently assumed the Palestinian terrorist-training role. The CIA armed and trained thousands of Palestinian “security forces”, who subsequently joined every Palestinian terrorist organization. CIA Palestinian training success is best described by a member of the PA’s Chairman own security unit : “ The operations of the Palestinian s would not have been so successful and would not have killed more than 1.000 Israelis since 2000 without American military training”. More at :
http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2009/05/whither-peace-process-part-i.html
RonaldH Comment by RonaldH on June 19, 2009 at 3:15pm
Thankfully, it didn't take long for Israelis to wake up to the fact that Obama's team believes in Leftist, pro Arab, anti-Zionist policies. US Jews bear responsibility for this situation. My prayer is that many of them wake up, become uncomfortable with their choice, and reverse it next election.

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