The Bible's Role in American Support for Israel

by Daniel Pipes
Thu, 24 Aug 2006
updated Tue, 29 Aug 2006

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It's intuitive that Bible-believers stand with Israel more than others, but until now that's been (so far as I know) an anecdotal impression. Thanks to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, we now have some poll statistics.

The survey (of a nationwide sample of 2,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, taken July 6-19, 2006) found that the U.S. population as a whole sympathizes more with Israel than the Palestinians by 44 percent to 9 percent, a figure in line with many other polls on the subject. Americans who believe that "Israel was given by God to the Jews" sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians by 63 percent to 4 percent. Likewise, those seeing Israel as "the fulfillment of biblical prophecy" sympathize 60 percent versus 7 percent for the Palestinians.

Comments: (1) As I have said before, Christian Zionists are, after the Israel Defense Forces, the second most important strategic asset Israel has.

(2) These ratios of up to 16-to-1 are far higher than one would find among Jews in general, though not much different from those among Bible-believing Jews. (August 24, 2006)

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The Painful But Absolute Truth [100 words]	Seamus MacNemi	Feb 25, 2007 14:52
↔ Israel and Islam [182 words]	Noha A. Yousri	Sep 6, 2007 14:08
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↔ how great a fall, Bart [356 words]	sara	Oct 3, 2006 07:44
why the heck do Jews STILL vote Democrat? [110 words]	sara	Sep 11, 2006 15:37
Bible Believers and Israel / Islam [498 words]	Major Jeff White	Sep 5, 2006 14:46
↔ Israel is still the same as in Old Testament: Micah [359 words]	Noha Yousri	Dec 4, 2006 23:53
↔ The God of Abraham and Free Will [129 words]	Seamus MacNemi	Feb 25, 2007 21:31
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↔ our dear Noha and the debate that is not a debate! Go figure [320 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 17, 2007 07:11
↔ Do you believe you have a kidney Mr. dhimmi ? [883 words]	Noha Yousri	Sep 17, 2007 22:37
↔ Our dear Noha rabina yu3alimuha al-lughat al-3arabiya wa al-kalawi [1564 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 18, 2007 20:50
Christian Zionists Down Under. [21 words]	Gail	Sep 5, 2006 00:04
Apocolyptic exegesis [105 words]	Rob	Sep 2, 2006 01:58
Staying in line with beliefs [316 words]	RWCowboy	Sep 2, 2006 00:18
↔ In Reply To Noha Yousri [45 words]	Seamus MacMemi	Sep 7, 2007 09:03
Its time to know the history of Palestinians [112 words]	Paul Rinderle	Aug 31, 2006 16:06
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Are the statistics accurate for European Christians too? [w/response] [81 words]	Robert Feiger	Aug 31, 2006 15:37
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support Israel, not the Bible [326 words]	Lewis Loflin	Aug 31, 2006 10:58
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