42% of Americans Believe God Gave Israel to Jews
02:30 Aug 30, '06 / 6 Elul 5766
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(IsraelNN.com) According to a poll commissioned by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research organization, 42% of Americans believe that the modern state of Israel is a gift to the Jewish people by God. 35% of Americans see Israel as the fulfillment of New Testament prophecy about Jesus and the End Times. The Pew organization reports that these numbers, collected in July 2006, are largely unchanged since 2003.

In the southern United States, 56% believe that Israel was given to the Jewish people by God. 69% of White evangelical Protestants hold that belief, along with majorities of Black Protestants, as well. The July survey also shows that many more Americans say they sympathize more with Israel (44%) than with the Palestinian Authority (9%). A subsequent Pew survey, conducted Aug. 9-13, found even broader support for Israel; 52% said they sympathized more with Israel, compared with 11% who sympathized more with the Palestinians.

Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Schulman, Ronca, & Bucuvalas, Inc. among a nationwide sample of 2,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, from July 6-19, 2006.