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- politics@lemmy.world
- palestine@lemmy.ml
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.
By David M. Halbfinger Oct. 12, 2025
The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.
Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
When Palestinians have the right of return, and can go to their family homes and kick the settlers out then we can have a talk about some country formerly known as Israel having made the correct decision to dissolve itself and become something shared with the actual people of that land.
A single state with equal rights for all. A land with Palestinians living where their parents and grandparents were literally born. Maybe it could be called the Freelands.