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47% - cancel speaking before the US Congress on March 3rd.
34% - don't cancel
margin: cancel +13%
Nearly half of Israelis want PM to cancel Congress speech -- poll The Times of Israel
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This is a poll sponsored by the Israeli Army, a large supporter of Netanyahu.
34% - don't cancel
margin: cancel +13%
Nearly half of Israelis want PM to cancel Congress speech -- poll The Times of Israel
Nearly one in two Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should cancel his March 3 address to the United States Congress amid heightened tensions between the White House and Jerusalem, an Army Radio poll on Monday showed
However, more than half (63 percent) also insisted that whether or not Netanyahu goes ahead with the address will not affect their voting choices.
According to the survey of 509 respondents, carried out by Millward Brown, some 47% say Netanyahu should cancel the speech, 34% say he shouldn’t cancel, and 19% say they don’t know.
The planned speech, on Iran’s nuclear threat, has angered the US administration and threatened to further fray ties between Jerusalem and Washington.
Netanyahu has faced growing calls in Israel and among US Jews to cancel the speech as rivals accuse him of risking Israel’s relations with the United States in hopes of winning extra votes in next month’s Israeli parliamentary election.
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Even some of Netanyahu’s sympathizers were saying he’s misjudged the situation.
“You’re right, but don’t go,” said the headline in a front-page commentary by columnist Ben-Dror Yemini in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily. “Obama is wrong and you’re right. But if there is any chance of budging him from his position, then you are making every possible mistake and turning him into an adversary.”
Michael Oren, who served as Netanyahu’s ambassador to Washington until 2013 and is now running for Knesset with the rival Kulanu party, said that if he were still in the post, he would have advised his boss not to address Congress.
This is a poll sponsored by the Israeli Army, a large supporter of Netanyahu.