Americans favor Israelis to Palestinians by more than 40 percentage points in the wake of Hamas’ election victory, according to a new poll. “Americans are much more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (59 percent) than with the Palestinians (15 percent), one of the highest margins in favor of the Israelis ever recorded by Gallup,” the organization said of its poll, published Monday. A clear majority of Americans, 57 percent, oppose funding the Palestinian Authority while it is ruled by Hamas, a terrorist group which won by a landslide in Palestinian parliamentary elections last month.
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