Friday, May 4, 2018

Apartheid Israel Speaks

It's Friday again, and as we await today's body count of dead and wounded Palestinians in the Gaza Ghetto, contemplate these appalling (and telling) statistics:

"Israelis overwhelmingly back the shooting of peaceful Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border and US President Donald Trump's plans to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem, a new poll has found. Conducted by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Democracy Institute, the poll shows that... 83% of Israelis say they support the shooting policy. Since March 30, 44 Palestinians have been killed, including 5 minors, and over 6,000 others injured in aggressive attacks by the Israeli military on the great March of Return protests staged at Gaza's border... The poll [also] shows that 63% of all Israelis say the embassy move benefits Israel." (Israelis strongly back shooting Palestinians at Gaza border, english.palinfo.com, 3/5/18)

1 comment:

Grappler said...

Harking back to an earlier post of yours MERC about Australian Jewish support for Israel, I found this article on the Conversation:

https://theconversation.com/as-israel-turns-70-many-young-american-jews-turn-away-95271

Apologies if you have already referenced it. It seems to show that US Jewish support for Israel is considerably lower (and declining) than Australian Jewish support.