{"id":227066,"date":"2016-02-26T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=227066"},"modified":"2016-02-26T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:04:07","slug":"americans-beginning-see-truth-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-beginning-see-truth-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans beginning to see the truth about Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The percentage of Americans viewing Israel favorably has fallen to 59 percent.<br \/>\nBy contrast, nearly a quarter of Americans (24 percent) now view the Palestinian<br \/>\nAuthority favorably. Americans viewing Iran favorably also surged to a recent<br \/>\nhigh of 16% of the adult population.<\/p>\n<p>These are the results of three IRmep polls of the U.S. adult internet population<br \/>\nfielded by Google Consumer Surveys February 19-20. The questions posed were,<br \/>\n&#8220;What is your overall opinion of [country]?&#8221; Respondents could also<br \/>\nfill in their own response. Most of these, representing up to 12.9% of the total<br \/>\nresponses, offered no opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The IRmep survey methodology differs from the popular Gallup World Affairs<br \/>\nSurvey methodology. Gallup conducts a serial telephone survey with multiple<br \/>\nquestions per respondent. Gallup\u2019s last publicly available data is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/181652\/seven-americans-continue-view-israel-favorably.aspx\">February<br \/>\n8-11, 2015 survey of 837 adults<\/a> with a 4% margin of error. IRmep\u2019s Google<br \/>\nConsumer Survey margin of error on three questions fielded separately ranged<br \/>\nfrom only 1.5% to 2.3% with a sample size target of 1029 national adults. Nevertheless,<br \/>\ncomparing historical Gallup data (2001-2015) with new IRmep poll numbers (2016<br \/>\nonly) asking the same question reveals a stunning turn in U.S. public opinion.<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/grant-smith2.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2012324789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2012324789\" src=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/grant-smith2.gif\" alt=\"Favorable views toward Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Iran, % Very\/Mostly favorable\" width=\"560\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/smith-grant\/2016\/02\/21\/americans-holding-favorable-views-of-israel-decline-16\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of Americans viewing Israel favorably has fallen to 59 percent. By contrast, nearly a quarter of Americans (24 percent) now view the Palestinian Authority favorably. Americans viewing Iran favorably also surged to a recent high of 16% of the adult population. These are the results of three IRmep polls of the U.S. adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}