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Source: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/25/realists-anti-semites-or-just-dumb/
Most Americans Who Support Israel Are Not Jewish
(American Interest) Walter Russell Mead - A new Gallup poll shows that Americans by an overwhelming percentage sympathize with the Israelis rather than the Palestinians. This time 63% said their sympathies lie more with Israel, while just 15% sympathized more with the Palestinians. Since 1948, Americans have consistently told pollsters that they sympathized more with the Israelis than with their enemies, generally by more than two to one. Less than 2% of the 300 million people in the U.S. are Jewish. This means that Jews can at most account for 2% of that 63% of the population who sympathize with Israel. Pro-Israel gentiles in America outnumber pro-Israel Jews by a factor of 20-1. The overwhelming majority of the Americans who support Israel against its enemies haven't been Jewish.