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War on Iran? Most American, Israeli Citizens Oppose64% of Israelis favor a nuclear-free zone
By the Common Dreams staff
February 3, 2012
Despite the steady drumbeat for war coming from US and Israeli neoconservatives, polls show that the people of both the United States and Israel are against a US or Israeli military attack on Iran.
A new United Technologies/National Journal poll shows only 17% of the US public supports military action against Iran and a November PIPA (Program on International Policy Attitudes) poll shows that only 43% of Israeli Jews support a military strike on Iran.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/03-1
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Poll: Only Seventeen Percent Of U.S. Public Supports Military Action Against Iran
By Eli Clifton
February 2, 2012
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reminded Congress earlier this week that U.S. intelligence estimates indicate that Iran has not yet decided to build a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, U.N. nuclear inspectors report that their recent talks in Tehran made for a good trip and scheduled a second round of talks for later this month, and a flurry of recent articles from experts have cast doubt on the effectiveness of a U.S. or Israeli military attack on Irans nuclear program.
While some of the more hawkish rhetoric and efforts to drive forward on unilateral sanctions continue to come out of Congress, the new United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, found that public support for a military strike on Irans nuclear facilities is extremely low.
Forty-seven percent of respondents favored economic sanctions against Iran, only 13 percent said the U.S. should go farther and take covert action against Iran such as sabotage and assassination of scientists working on their nuclear program, and 17 percent would support tak[ing] military action against Iran, including bombing weapons facilities inside the country.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/02/417297/poll-seventeen-percent-us-public-supports-military-action-iran/
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Preventing a Nuclear Iran, Peacefully
By SHIBLEY TELHAMI and STEVEN KULL
January 15, 2012
Despite all the talk of an existential threat, less than half of Israelis support a strike on Iran. According to our November poll (.pdf), carried out in cooperation with the Dahaf Institute in Israel, only 43 percent of Israeli Jews support a military strike on Iran even though 90 percent of them think that Iran will eventually acquire nuclear weapons.
Most important, when asked whether it would be better for both Israel and Iran to have the bomb, or for neither to have it, 65 percent of Israeli Jews said neither. And a remarkable 64 percent favored the idea of a nuclear-free zone, even when it was explained that this would mean Israel giving up its nuclear weapons.
The Israeli public also seems willing to move away from a secretive nuclear policy toward greater openness about Israels nuclear facilities. Sixty percent of respondents favored a system of full international inspections of all nuclear facilities, including Israels and Irans, as a step toward regional disarmament.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/opinion/preventing-a-nuclear-iran-peacefully.html?_r=1
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War on Iran? Most American, Israeli Citizens Oppose (Original Post)
Better Believe It
Feb 2012
OP
So what groups are trying to organize a mass anti-war movement here in the United States?
Better Believe It
Feb 2012
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provis99
(13,062 posts)1. "Only" 43% of Israelis want war with Iran.
that's a whole fucking lot of warmongers, not what I would call "only".
Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)2. And a few decades ago it probably would have been 80%, if not higher.
Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)3. So what groups are trying to organize a mass anti-war movement here in the United States?
Oh.
I get it.
We're "tired" of marching .... except for one trek to the election booth in November where our votes may or may not be counted.
FSogol
(45,525 posts)4. Promoting not voting again? Tsk, tsk.