President Obama's attempt to convince Americans and Israelis there is no distance between U.S> and Israel seem to have failed miserably in Israel. A JPost/Smith poll has found only a 1% increase in the number of Israelis who think Obama is pro-Israel. Currently, 10% of Israelis think Obama is pro-Israel. 46% think he is more pro-Palestinian.
JPost reported:
US President Barack Obama’s efforts to reach out to the people of Israel last week – when he hosted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a positive meeting at the White House and gave his first interview as president to an Israeli television station – were not very successful, according to a Smith Research poll for The Jerusalem Post...
But what was widely described as a “charm offensive” did not immediately sway many Israelis in his favor, the JPost/Smith poll indicates. There was only a 1 percentage point rise in Israelis who consider the US administration headed by Obama to be more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian since the last such poll was taken in March.
When asked whether they saw Obama’s administration as more pro-Israel, more pro- Palestinian or neutral, just 10 percent of Israeli Jews said more pro-Israel, 46% said more pro-Palestinian, 34% said neutral and 10% did not express an opinion.
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