President's handling hits new lows; Democrats have grown less supportive of aid to Israel.
An increasing number of Americans want Joe Biden to encourage Israel to stop military actions in Gaza; and Mr. Biden's handling of the situation is now down to its lowest levels yet.
In the poll, conducted before Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel, there wasn't much clamor among the U.S. public for U.S. military action against Iran, were Iran to strike Israel. More would instead have the U.S. support Israel's next actions.
And compared to last October, there are fewer Democrats and independents today who say the U.S. should send weapons and supplies to Israel.
Half the country believes the threat of terrorism will increase for both Israel and Americans as a result of the conflict.
Finally, underlining the importance of all this: most say how this matter is handled reflects on many things, including the U.S.' morals and principles, as well as its security and strategic interests.
On the heels of the most recent inflation report, and the stock market drop that ensued, the months-long run-up of optimism about the economy has stalled for now.
Moreover, when the bulk of Americans who think things in the country aren't going well are asked why that is, they say it's the economy, more so than wars and events overseas.
This CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,399 U.S. adult residents interviewed between April 9-12, 2024.
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Israel attacked an embassy in a country that they are trying to occupy more land in (I'm referring to Syria in this case). Biden is trying to get the US in an unjustifiable war with Iran.
Correct me of I'm wrong but isn't starting unjustifiable wars in an election year a giant red flag for fascism? The Democratic excuse of "at least we are not [insert_opponent_name_here]" is finally starting to catch up with us.
Biden has been encouraging Israel to show restraint from the beginning. He has set conditions on arms delivered. He is slow-walking arms deliveries. He is also getting strong criticism for not helping Israel enough.
The US is also using loopholes to keep over 100 arms sales under the radar, including thousands of bombs. “This doesn’t just seem like an attempt to avoid technical compliance with US arms export law, it’s an extremely troubling way to avoid transparency and accountability on a high-profile issue,” Ari Tolany, director of the security assistance monitor at the Centre for International Policy thinktank, said" and added “They’re very much borrowing from the Trump playbook to dodge congressional oversight”.
No matter your stance on what Biden should be doing, why do you call that "slow-walking arms deliveries"? Seems like you're trying to rewrite the history of how strongly and swiftly Biden has supported Israel - aka doing election season damage control regardless of evidence.
He didn't need to set conditions, the Leahy Law already does that. His conditions were a smoke screen so Israel could self certify they aren't doing anything and people would be mollified. The law already bans weapons exports to countries with credible accusations of human rights abuses. And we've been past that point for months now.
Strange that you can just completely lie and get upvoted. Biden has done everything Netanyahu asked him to and there are no conditions on arms deliveries.
Joe Biden himself has said he unconditionally supports israel.