[From article]
Among ideological groups, conservative Republicans sympathized with Israel over Palestinians by a 77-percent to 4-percent margin. In contrast, just 39 percent of liberal Democrats said they sympathized with Israel, compared with 21 percent who said they sympathized more with Palestinians.
The widening partisan gap is difficult news for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee*, a lobbying group that attempts to preserve the strong relationship between Israel and the United States by making support for Israel into a bipartisan issue.
But as conservative Republicans continue to push the party into an increasingly pro-Israel direction, liberals who believe that U.S. policy is too reflexively supportive of Israel and too unsympathetic to Palestinians are gaining influence within the Democratic Party.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2550855
Poll finds Republicans sympathize with Israel much more strongly than Democrats
BY PHILIP KLEIN
JULY 15, 2014 | 12:52 PM
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