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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[–] drhead@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That is a very open ended question so it shouldn't be that surprising that the results are like this. What part of the response are we talking about? Are we talking about whether it is justified for Israel to respond at all? Are we talking about whether the severity of their response is warranted? Who the fuck knows! Probably a lot more of the people who interpret it as the first would agree with the poll.

The propaganda is how this will be presented as 70% of Americans being pro-Israel, which this poll does not demonstrate.

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

I hate these public opinion polls that: 1. Demonstrate how effective the prior waves of propaganda was were for informing the general public's opinion, and 2. Are themselves wielded by propagandists who show them off like "This is the popular/common opinion, so it must be [good], [correct],[normal], [popular], etc."

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thinking Israel is justified to respond at all is pro-Israel given the history of the nation

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but also the bulk of Americans are super idealistic on this stuff and don't think about it more deeply than "if you're attacked you should be allowed to attack back".

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Somehow the dozens of UN doctors and international journalists that Israel had killed manage to disappear into the void of history.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

i mean the Israeli military response is "kill and destroy everything".

even before October 7th events, Israel had decent support even among self identified 'liberals' (36%), I think the hysteria has only pushed it way higher.