A new Rasmussen poll released today shows that “Despite President Obama's meeting last week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to affirm the importance of the U.S.–Israeli relationship, 31% of U.S. voters believe relations between the two countries will be worse a year from now.”
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 15% think America’s relationship with Israel will be better in 12 months time. Forty-four percent (44%) expect the relationship to be about the same.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) consider Israel an ally of the United States, down from a recent high of 70% in August of last year. Only five percent (5%) feel Israel is an enemy, while 33% place the Jewish state somewhere in between. . . .
In June of last year, 35% criticized the president for not being supportive enough of Israel, while 48% said the president’s Middle East policy was about right.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on July 10-11, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. . . .
At the United Nations and in other international forums, the United States often finds itself as one of Israel’s few defenders, but just 24% say, generally speaking, America is too supportive of Israel. Thirty-three percent (33%) say the United States is not supportive enough, while 32% say neither is the case. . . .
GOP voters feel more strongly than Democrats and unaffiliateds that Israel is an U.S. ally.
Israel is only one of five countries that most Americans are willing to defend militarily.