Poll: 58% Of Israeli Jews Support Strike On Iran

Poll: 51% of Israelis would support strike on Iran, even without US approval

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A majority of Israelis would support an attack on Iran even if it did not have a green light from the United States, a new Israel Democracy Institute poll finds.

According to the survey, 54% of respondents said that Iran poses an existential threat to Israel’s existence. About a quarter of respondents view Iran as a “medium danger” while 13% see it as posing only a “small danger.”

Overall, 51% of Israelis agreed that Israel could attack Iran even without receiving a “green light” from Washington and only less than a third (31%) would not support such action without American approval, the poll finds.

On both questions, there was a large gap between the opinions of Jewish and Arab interviewees.

Whereas a large majority (62%) of Jewish Israelis think that Iran constitutes an existential danger, only a minority (19%) of Arab Israelis concurred. And while a clear majority of Jewish Israelis (58%) agreed that American consent to attack is not necessary, only 18% of Arab Israelis said the same.

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That number drops to 51% of Israelis when Israel’s entire population is taken into account, including its significant Arab minority.

A significant majority of Jewish Israelis, 58%, would support a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities even without a green light from Washington, according to an Israel Democracy Institute report published Wednesday.

That number drops to 51% of Israelis when Israel’s entire population is taken into account, including its significant Arab minority.

Still, for a country that was once ready to downgrade or replace its prime ministers if they did not get along with a US president, and where many security experts consider at least a quiet US “wink” as necessary for an attack on Iran, that the general public feels differently was telling.

The Israeli Voice Index survey for November 2021 was published by IDI’s Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research.

Less than a third (31%) of Jewish Israelis would not support action against Iran without American approval, while around 82% of Arab Israelis would want the Biden administration to sign off.