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Majority of Americans (~70%) say Israel’s response to Hamas attack is justified, CNN poll finds (www.politico.com)

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Iraq dominated the headlines throughout the fall of 2002 and into the winter of 2003. Public opinion on the wisdom of war, however, stabilized relatively early and slightly in favor of war. Gallup found that from August 2002 through early March 2003 the share of Americans favoring war hovered in a relatively narrow range between a low of 52 percent and a high of 59 percent. By contrast, the share of the public opposed to war fluctuated between 35 percent and 43 percent.

Looks like Americans are even more happy with murdering people if its done by a puppet.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/rally-round-the-flag-opinion-in-the-united-states-before-and-after-the-iraq-war/

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[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 year ago

Remember who they are polling, who answers their landlines, who picks up a phone from 'unknown'

It's boomers, folks

[-] equinox@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Nice to see the younger ones polled favor Palestine's struggle more

[-] aaro@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

the actual numbers from the poll:

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Zoomers still at 57% lol stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

18-34? Gen z adults are 18-25 so that's more millennial than zoomer. Also, smaller subgroups have a bigger margin of error, especially since they only polled 1000 people total (through texts people have to respond to from an unknown number nonetheless)

Not gonna happen, but I'd wanna see a poll on 18-22 yo college students, I'd like to think we're much less pro-Israel seeing we're a lot less likely to get news from mainstream mass media. Completely anecdotal: but I don't know a single person my age that supports Israel, everyone either supports Palestine or are neutral/ignorant. I've seen a ton of my mutuals on social media show support for Palestine too, none for Israel, and I've seen a ton of comments echoing the whole "no one our age supports Israel" sentiment too

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

So the 70% is combining "fully justified" and "partially justified," with the only other options being "not at all justified" or "not sure." There's no option for like "mostly unjustified" so lots of people who both sides the issue - or even favor Palestine! - are likely to say "partially justified," which is a very broad and vague statement.

Another headline you could write from this poll: "Only 27% of young people consider Israel's response justified - compared to 81% of seniors," or "50% of Americans think Israel's response was justified."

Polls are, as always, fake.

[-] pillow@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

tbf anything except "not at all justified" is a monstrous take so the poll still works if you're happy to confirm more reasons to hate amerikans ( stuff )