Before Hamas attack, US attitudes on Israel and Palestinians had shifted along party lines: Polling
Americans' opinions were shifting on Israel and the Palestinians prior to the latest war in the Gaza Strip, with thoughts on the two largely divided along party lines. Hamas' militants launched a brutal, expansive terror attack on Israel over the weekend, killing at least 1,200 people, and Israel went to war in response, with President Joe Biden and other top administration officials pledging aid to the Israelis. That underlines the U.S.'s continued support for Israel. Gallup polling in recent decades shows that adults broadly remain very or mostly favorable to Israel compared with the Palestinian Authority, one of the Palestinians' major governing bodies. Still, according to Gallup surveys as recently as February -- months before the Hamas attack -- Americans' opinions had been shifting on Israel and the Palestinians, with thoughts on the two largely divided along party lines. Americans overall also remain supportive of Israel, with 54% in the February Gallup s...