8/29/2024–|Last update: 8/29/202411:40 PM (Makkah Time)
A poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found that more than half of Americans believe military aid to Israel should be restricted so that it is not used against Palestinian civilians.
The council, which is one of the leading think tanks in the United States, said in its presentation of the poll results on Thursday that Americans – despite many of them supporting military support for Israel – care about the Palestinians, especially civilians.
According to the poll results, 53% of participants believe that the United States should restrict its military aid to Israel so that it cannot be used in military operations against the Palestinians.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs noted that the growing calls to condition such aid did not prevent the US State Department from recently announcing $3.5 billion in military funding for Tel Aviv, despite the fact that the civilian death toll from Israeli military operations in Gaza has far exceeded 40,000, according to the site’s report.
“A positive American role”
But despite domestic and international criticism, 61% of Americans see their country as playing a “constructive and positive” role in the Middle East, according to the poll.
Also, 60% expressed support for continuing US military aid to Israel until the Israeli detainees are released.
On the other hand, 30% of participants believe that the United States supports Israel excessively, and 3 out of 10 Americans say that their country does not provide enough humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
Israel has been continuing its war on Gaza with American support for about 11 months. International experts have described it as genocide, as tens of thousands have been killed, injured, and missing, most of them children and women. Entire families have been erased from the civil registry, and nearly 70% of the civilian infrastructure, including homes, schools, and hospitals, has been destroyed.