Poll: 71% of Israelis want U.S. to strike Iran if talks fail

[Scurrilous]

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"Fully 71 percent of Israelis believe that the United States should launch a military attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran's nuclear program, according to a new poll.

The survey, commissioned by Bar-Ilan University's BESA Center and the Anti-Defamation League, found that 59 percent of Israelis still believe the war in Iraq was justified, while 36 percent take the opposite view. Some 65 percent believe that the United States is a loyal ally of Israel, with only 11 percent saying the opposite. A slightly higher proportion, 73percent, described President George W. Bush as friendly. Forty-eight percent attributed U.S. support for Israel to strategic considerations, while 30 percent credited American Jewry and 17 percent cited shared values and a shared democratic tradition.

Regarding America's importance to Israel, there was near consensus: 91 percent said that close relations with the U.S. are vital to Israel's security. Some 51 percent of respondents predicted that the U.S. will ultimately impose an agreement on Israel and the Palestinians, while 43 percent disagreed."

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/860903.html

[kurth]

1. How about 71% of Israelis go to Iraq

and help out?

[gaspee]

5. That's

Exactly what I was going to say!

[oberliner]

19. Israel was not permitted to participate

In this invasion, as in Gulf War I, Israel was specifically barred from participating in the conflict by the United States.

[snappyturtle]

2. Diplomatic efforts.....too little and too late and hardly

perceivable. Maybe Israel would like to pay for this war with Israeli lives and treasury.

[april]

3. well I think that 90% of Americans feel differently about that No more war!! nm

[rpannier]

4. Too damned bad

71% of Israelis can STFU

[RL3AO]

6. Hey Israel. Fight your own wars.

[Parche]

7. Israel

PRE EMPTIVE STRIKES ARE NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION...........:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Rydz777]

8. Not going to happen

Bush has broken our Armed Forces and dug us so deep into debt that we can't afford any more stupid adventures.

[Mojambo]

9. AIPAC is gonna be burning up their anytime minutes. n/t

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[Error]

11. My Friend in Israel who is a holocaust survivor

likens the protection of Israel to the Holocaust. He sees the Muslims as wanting them out of the region and his attitude is "we're not going quietly this time"... He'd rather go out in a nuclear confrontation if that is what it means.

[bahrbearian]

13. Would it be a "Nuclear Confontation" if only one side used Nukes?

[PATRICK]

14. Ergo: another holocaust

They should start examining these lose/lose situations and exactly who benefits from th\ese various burnt offerings anyway.

And over time, without the hair-trigger suicide pact, Israelis like any other human beings will in part leave, in part stay and survive, and exercise any of the other useful options to stay alive. The fact that anti-Semitism has in the past radicalized the normal situation makes things pretty hard to swallow and incredibly fearsome. But the maelstrom, the fire storm of violence itself is their devil and never their ally.

The region was poisoned by Hitler and the Europeans as the latest in a string of assaulting evils which have never gone away. Oddly Jesus foresight of the destruction of Jerusalem, fairly logical, concluded people should get out of Dodge. It is the rabid abusers of Christianity who want Israelis to stay and die to the last believer.

[bahrbearian]

17. The ultimate Neocon Tool

[sam sarrha]

12. better us than them..... what a deal, iran sinks ALL our ships and Israel nukes em...

nothing in the straights will survive... and the neoCons know it.. it is the Pearl Harbor they have planned for 25 years.. they will sacrafice our soldiers and sailers for profit.. it will back fire and the nation will rise up and destroy the neoCon Government, torches and pitch forks..

[muntrv]

15. Uh, Israel? The war in Iraq is precisely why Iran is arming itself to the teeth.

[Hardrada]

16. It's their same old "Why don't you and him fight?"

We think Israel can go on its own now without the training wheels.

[RL3AO]

18. Personally, I think its Israel not wanting to show the true power of their military.

[Hardrada]

20. Well, hell, why can't we see what we've paid for??