More Israelis than American Jews support the Oslo peace process and are willing to return all of the West Bank to the Palestinians, according to polls conducted last month in the United States by the Los Angeles Times and in Israel by the newspaper Yediot Achronot. On the other hand, the polls indicated that more American Jews than Israelis approve of an independent Palestinian state and believe that, in general, Israel “is off on the wrong track.” The world’s two largest Jewish communities agreed that they are important to each other, support religious pluralism in Israel and are less optimistic about the chance for a lasting peace in the Middle East than they were a year ago.
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