The Brookings Institution released a new poll on American attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presumably timed to coincide with the Saban Forum organized by the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.
The poll found an increase in support for a one state solution with equal citizenship, likely a result of the latest collapse of the "peace process," with support for a single state with equal citizens not far behind the support for two states based on 1967 lines.
The poll also asked respondents what their preference would be if the two-state solution were not an option. Democrats, Independents, and Republicans all favored a single state with equal rights for all, although there were clear partisan differences:
Americans overall thought that the US should remain neutral between the two parties:
However, this differed sharply by party:
A strong plurality of Americans thought that the US should abstain from voting on the Mahmoud Abbas's bid for Palestinian statehood at the UN. (The US would likely veto any such proposal).
However, there were sizable differences by party:
Americans opposed Israeli settlement construction by almost 2 to 1.
There were strong partisan differences, but even a majority of Republicans opposed settlement construction.
However, opposition to settlement construction did not translate into support for any real action:
Nearly half (48%) of Democrats, however, thought that US opposition to Israeli settlement construction needed to be more than just sternly worded letters:
The poll also looked at attitudes toward Israel among the two groups that tend to be most supportive: Jews and evangelical Christians. However, as we have seen before, evangelicals Christians are the more avid supporters of Israel. In fact, more evangelical Christians than Jews favored Israel's Jewishness over its democracy.