Poll: Only 6% of Americans think U.S. should back Palestinians in peace talks.

I think the 6% should give hope to the world that even as tiny as they are that they managed to escape the bombardment of the almost exclusively Jewish owned media and managed to make up their own minds, they should be considered like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest! BTW: It is assuming that this 'poll' was not maneuvered in such a way as to achieve the anticipated results. America is no more totally white nor totally Christian. People of color overwhelmingly do sympathize with the Palestinian people. Unless these nice Jewish folks went to a church somewhere in the Midwest and did their polling, it seems to lack the ring of truth about it. Ziomania.

Nov 17,2008

Poll: Only 6% of Americans think U.S. should back Palestinians in peace talks

By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent

Only 6 percent of Americans think the United States should stand behind the Palestinians in Middle East peace talks, according to a recent poll of voters conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and commissioned by The Israel Project.

Comparatively, 66 percent of those polled said the U.S. should support Israel in the peace process. Some 80 percent of GOP voters and 59 percent of Democratic were among those backing U.S. support for Israel.

Despite "all the problems America now faces at home," 58 percent of those polled agreed more with the statement that "America needs to stand with Israel" than with "Israel needs to take care of itself."

Of those polled, only 19 percent think "making peace between Israel and the Palestinians" should be among President-elect Barack Obama's top foreign policy priorities.

Almost two-thirds of Americans said they were more concerned about the nuclear standoff with Iran; some 72 percent of those polled agreed with the statement that "even with all the problems that America faces at home now, we must still work hard to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons."

When asked what the next president should make as his top priority in foreign policy, 56 percent mentioned "ending the war in Iraq" and 41 percent said "restoring global economic growth."

Another 35 percent said Obama must focus on "defeating Al-Qaida and the Taliban," while 33 percent listed "preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons" as one of the most important tasks facing the U.S.

Meanwhile, 15 percent believe the U.S. must work on "dealing with the instability in Pakistan," while 8 percent are worried about "meeting the threat of Putin's Russia."