Some 86 percent of Americans said Israel is vital to U.S. interests, according to a Gallup Poll conducted May 7-9. Of those polled, 42 percent said they want Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu re-elected while 31 percent would like to see someone new elected. The poll of 1,025 U.S. citizens has a margin of error of 3 percent. A smaller sampling of 501 Americans with a 5 percent margin of error showed that support for the creation of a Palestinian state remains unchanged at 53 percent since the Israelis and Palestinians signed the Oslo peace accords in 1993.
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