Is bipartisan support for Israel still in the cards?
Denigrating the Founding Fathers has eroded the common denominator between Democrats and Republican- and bipartisan support of Israel.
By Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, INN , Jan 22 , 2021
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According to the March 2020 annual Gallup poll of country favorability, Israel enjoys 74 percent favorability in the United States (90 percent among Republicans and 67 percent among Democrats), compared to 23 percent for the Palestinian Authority (9 percent of Republicans and 34 percent of Democrats).
However, while Israel enjoys bipartisan support among most U.S. voters and, therefore, among members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate at the dawn of the Biden administration, one must not ignore the gradual—and recently accelerated—erosion of this support.
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