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GALLUP: Americans' Middle East sympathies now lie with the Palestinians

Trita Parsi reponds to new survey.

Trita Parsi, executive VP from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, talks to The Trends Journal about the new Gallup poll that shows more Americans are sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis, and he talks about the chances of a U.S. war with Iran.

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GALLUP POLL: Forty-one percent of Americans now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians in the Middle East situation, while 36% sympathize more with the Israelis. The five-percentage-point difference is not statistically significant, but it contrasts with a clear lead for the Israelis only a year ago (46% vs. 33%) and larger leads over the prior 24 years.1

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https://news.gallup.com/poll/702440/israelis-no-longer-ahead-americans-middle-east-sympathies.aspx

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