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Americans are split on whether President Trump’s support for Israel has gone too far or is just about right, according to a survey released on Tuesday. 

The Economist/YouGov poll found that 36 percent of U.S. adults think that the president’s backing of Israel has gone too far, while another 32 percent stated the commander-in-chief’s support for the Jewish state is about right. Only seven percent of respondents said Trump is not supportive enough of Jerusalem. 

The large majority of Americans, 71 percent, including 87 percent of Democratic Party voters and 54 percent of Republicans, think there is a hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, according to the survey. 

Just over four-in-10 respondents, 43 percent, think that Israel is committing “genocide” on the war-torn enclave against Palestinians. Around 65 percent of Democrats and 19 percent of GOP voters agreed. In the same survey from January 2024, 35 percent of U.S. adults said Israel was committing “genocide.” 

More Americans, 41, in the survey said that Israeli military attacks on “Gaza are unjustified and harm too many innocent Palestinians” compared to 32 percent of those who argued that “Israel is justified in its attacks on Gaza as a response to threats” from the Palestinian militant group Hamas. 

Over four-in-10 respondents, 42 percent, are supportive of decreasing military aid to Israel, compared to those who are supportive, 13 percent, of increasing it. More Americans are in favor, 38 percent, of increasing humanitarian aid to the Palestinians than tamping it down, 18 percent, according to the survey. 

The majority of U.S. adults, 78 percent, are “strongly or somewhat” supportive of reaching a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government. Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, including 70 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of Republicans, argued that Palestinians should have their own state. Some 17 percent do not agree. 

The survey was conducted from Aug. 1-4 among 1,702 Americans. The poll had a margin of error of around 3.5 percent. 

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