Id expect an organization that bills itself as

"As Israel faces threats from Iran and their proxies Hezbollah and Hamas, TIP is working to protect Israel and your global Jewish family"

and runs the

The Israel Project's Ultimate Training Seminar for Pro -Israel Advocates

On average, Americans watch 4.3 hours of television per day. And what do they see about Israel? Too often, it is negative press. Polling indicates that most people, including college students, form their opinions about foreign affairs from television and news-papers. In order to get the next generation of Jews and non-Jews to feel close to Israel, we have to first improve the source of their information and images -- the news media. Fortunately, YOU can make a difference.

(via Yoweigh)

George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel

Glenn Greenwald: In a democracy, one could expect that politicians would be afraid to express a view that 70% of the citizens oppose. Yet here we have the exact opposite situation: no mainstream politician would dare express the view that 70% of Americans support; instead, the universal piety is the one that only a small minority accept. Isn't that fairly compelling evidence of the complete disconnect between our political elites and the people they purportedly represent?
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The critical question which the survey does not address is, what do most Americans think our policy should be toward Israel and the Palestinians? Specifically, do most Americans favor the "special relationship," where we unconditionally give Israel abundant material aid and firm diplomatic backing? This policy -- which has been our actual policy for many years -- means that we back Israel to the hilt no matter what it does to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. We favor Israel over the Palestinians, and indeed, favor Israel in any conflict in which it is involved, like the Lebanon war in 2006.

The answer to that critical question is that most Americans do not support the special relationship. They are much more critical of Israeli policy than their elected representatives are and they are far more willing to support a hard-nosed approach to dealing with the Jewish state than most policymakers would be. For example, a 2003 survey conducted by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) found that 60 percent of Americans were willing to withhold aid to Israel if it resisted U.S. pressure to settle its conflict with the Palestinians. In fact, 73 percent of those surveyed said the United States should not favor either side in the conflict. Two years later, a survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League found that 78 percent of Americans believed that Washington should favor neither Israel nor the Palestinians. A July 1, 2008 poll ("World
Public Opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,")
conducted by (PIPA) found that 71 percent of Americans believe that we should take neither side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; only 21%
think we should take Israel's side.