Polling
of Unqualified Population is Dangerous.
by Steven Shamrak.
Americans likely to
vote in November strongly believe the United States should take Israel’s side in its
conflict with the Palestinians, according to a poll conducted by Public Opinion
Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. Sixty
percent of those who say they will cast their ballots in the presidential election
support Israel, according to a poll. Some 85 percent of respondents supporting
Republican candidate Sen. John McCain, 62 percent backing Sen. Barack Hussein
Obama and 58 percent of those for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton say America
should stand with Israel during the current Israel-Palestinian conflict.
At the same time, 84 percent of respondents
support a two-state solution and ceding Jewish land in order
to create another terror infested Arab state. Of course the question about a
two-state solution was not presented to the participants in the poll this way,
otherwise most of them would have said “No” and it would contradict US foreign
policy and the intentions of the ‘politicly correct’, if not self-hating,
Jewish organisation which commissioned the poll! It is easy to manipulate
public opinion by asking loaded or vague questions, or after exposing the
population to a cleverly designed propaganda campaign. It is dangerous to base
any policy on unqualified public opinion! Public support of the war in Iraq
five years ago is a good example.
No one has asked the
opinion of lay people about “Cold Fusion”. Most people don’t even know what it
is. But, everyone has an opinion about Israel, the future of Jewish land, and
is willing to express it. It is even unethical to poll a population which has
no knowledge about a subject. Dictators, unscrupulous politicians and their
masters have been manipulating public opinion to provide backing for their
shady intentions.
Most Americans support
Israel, but have not thought what the land of Israel, Eretz-Israel, means for
Jews. They have not even questioned the legitimacy and intentions behind the
Arab claim for Jewish land or the viability of a two-state solution.
Interestingly, the
poll has shown that more than 50 percent supporters of anti-Israel candidates,
Clinton and Obama, care about Israel. But, have those supporters bother to read
what Clinton or Obama have said about the Arab-Israel conflict in the past or
study their candidates’ foreign policy platform toward Israel? Do they really
know the candidates they intend to vote for? Democracy must not be blind!