Bloomberg Politics National Poll Finds Deep Partisan Split on Israel and Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, right, shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, following a speech to a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2015.
Photographer: Pete Marovich/BloombergIsrael has become a deeply partisan issue for ordinary Americans as well as for politicians in Washington, a shift that may represent a watershed moment in foreign policy and carry implications for domestic politics after decades of general bipartisan consensus.
Republicans by a ratio of more than 2-to-1 say the U.S. should support Israel even when its stances diverge with American interests, a new Bloomberg Politics poll finds. Democrats, by roughly the same ratio, say the opposite is true and that the U.S. must pursue its own interests over Israel's.
