Covenant With Many

Gallup poll: Half of Americans back independent Palestine - UPI.com
UPI reports: "A new Gallup poll finds 50 percent of Americans support an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the highest number since 2012. The change shows more Americans supporting Palestinian statehood, despite most in the United States feeling sympathetic to Israel, a major U.S. ally, Gallup reported."

Comment: I think most Americans only know what the mainstream news media tells them about the world, which is to say, very little. They may find the question "Do you support an independent Palestine?" to be a perfectly straightforward question.  They may assume (lacking any other information) that the Palestinians are a single political, cultural and national group with their own continuous history going back hundreds or thousands of years. They won't know that the Palestinians are a mixture of former Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese and Arab peoples who lived in a geographic area that the Romans previously called Palestina but has never existed as a state called Palestine. They also won't know that the current people called "Palestinians" are separated into two groups currently involved in a low-level civil war (Fatah vs. Hamas) and one of the things they don't agree on is peace with Israel. One rival group (Hamas) actually participated in parliamentary elections, running on a war-with-Israel platform...and won. So, if we are to ask do you want an independent Palestinian state, we should ask, which Palestinians will get a state? Maybe it's time to forget the two-state solution and go for a three-state solution. At least that would reflect an honest appraisal of the situation. I suspect that in the end, there will be only one state left standing after the Pslam 83 War. I stand with Israel.