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AS ISRAELI GENOCIDE INTENSIFIES, MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT
PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD  
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Stephen Prager
August 20, 2025
Common Dreams
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_ "Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American
people," said policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs. _

Thousands rallied in New York for a ‘Mass March for Humanity’ on
August 16 demanding an end to Israel’s imposed starvation of Gaza
and the complicity of the US. , Al Jazeera

 

As the US backs Israel's plans to occupy Gaza
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illegal settlements in the West Bank
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majority of Americans say the world should recognize a Palestinian
state.

According to a _Reuters_/Ipsos poll
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on Wednesday, 58% of Americans believe that every country in the
United Nations should recognize a Palestinian state, compared with
just 33% who said they should not and 9% who said they were unsure.

In recent weeks, as Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid has
inflicted mass starvation across the enclave, many American
allies—including Canada, the UK, and France—have broken with the
US by indicating their intent to recognize the State of Palestine
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UN's 193 member states—over 75%—now recognize
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as a sovereign nation.

Last week, the foreign ministers of 26 states signed
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a statement that the crisis in Gaza
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levels" and called on Israel
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humanitarian aid into the strip. As of Tuesday, the Gaza Health
Ministry reported
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266 people, including 122 children, had been starved to death as a
result of the blockade.

In Gaza City, where Israel has begun
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devastating campaign of bombing, shelling, and shooting civilians and
demolishing their homes, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees (UNRWA) reported Friday
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malnutrition has reached 21.5%, "meaning nearly one in five young
children is now malnourished."

Amnesty International
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in malnutrition is the result of a "deliberate campaign of starvation"
by Israel aimed at "systematically destroying the health, well-being,
and social fabric of Palestinian life." Israeli human rights groups,
including B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel,
have described
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nation's military actions as "genocide."

While the administration of US President Donald Trump
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and many Democrats continue to back Israel's actions to the hilt, they
are increasingly out of step with the views of the American public.

In a July 29 Gallup poll
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just 32% said they approved of Israel's military actions in Gaza,
while 60% disapproved. The decline in support among Democrats is
especially striking: Where 36% said they supported Israel's actions in
October 2023, that number has plummeted to just 8%.

But unlike elsewhere in the world, this has not resulted in a sea
change among politicians. Just 13 House Democrats signed onto
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letter earlier this month calling on the Trump administration to
recognize Palestinian statehood.

Israel has meanwhile moved forward with actions explicitly aimed at
making a Palestinian state impossible.

On Wednesday, Israel gave the final approval
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a massive new illegal settlement
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Bank known as E1, which slices the Palestinian territory in two and
cuts off Palestinian communities between Jerusalem and the Jordan
Valley.

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has championed the proposal, saying
it "buries the idea of a Palestinian state."

Trump and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee have reportedly given
approval to the plan, as part of a reversal in the decades-old US
policy opposing Israel's settlements in the West Bank, which violate
international law.

International business professor Avraham Shama argued in _The Hill
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Wednesday that Israel's "increasingly brutal" actions will only
continue to galvanize the world toward the plight of the Palestinians.

"Soon, the Palestinian people will be recognized as a sovereign nation
in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank by most countries. They now have
the political and moral momentum toward achieving this goal," Shama
said. "The case for Palestinian independence has been getting clearer
and more urgent with every Israeli bombing of mostly innocent Gazans,
and with every death from starvation caused by Israel's withholding of
food."

Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at
Columbia University, told _Common Dreams _that through its continued
support for Israel, the US government is increasingly isolating
itself.

"Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American
people," Sachs said. "Israel's genocide has made it a pariah state,
propped up by the White House over the objections of the American
people."

"The only way to peace, and to rescue Israel from its murderous ways,"
he said, "is to implement the two-state solution immediately, as
almost all of the world demands. It's now up to Trump to end US
complicity in the genocide and to recognize Palestine."

_Stephen Prager is a staff writer for Common Dreams._

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