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Source: http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2010/1209_israel_public_opinion_telhami.aspx
Attitudes Toward the Middle East Peace Process: Surveys of Arab and Jewish Opinion in Israel and Public Opinion in the U.S.
(Brookings Institution) Shibley Telhami - Among the findings of the American poll is that one-quarter of Americans state that the Arab-Israeli issue is one of the top three American interests, and two-thirds say it's among the top five American interests. 71% support American diplomatic efforts to mediate the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Two-thirds want the U.S. to "lean toward neither side," 25% want American diplomacy to lean toward Israel, and 2% want the U.S. to lean toward the Palestinians. The writer is Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and nonresident senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.