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\r\n\tA new poll published by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, shows that a plurality of Americans misunderstand a fundamental fact about the Middle East.
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\r\n\tSpecifically, a statistically representative sample of Americans and three other nationalities were asked a simple question about Israel and Palestine.
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\r\n\tThe wording of the question and the results are shown above.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tNote that respondents were allowed to give their own custom response as well; those that did are included within the Other category.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tAs you can see, the American responses differ significantly from the other countries’.
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\r\n\tAmerica is unfortunately unique in having a plurality of Americans, 49.2%, who answered the question wrong, believing that Palestinians occupy Israeli land.
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\r\n\tIn reality, the Israelis occupy Palestinian territories and have an ongoing blockade of a Palestinian ladn known as the Gaza Strip.
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\r\n\tIn the nearly 5 decades since, Israelis have gradually “settled” on some of the occupied territory, formally displacing the original owners and claiming parcels of land as their own.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2016-04-10 15:44:44","content_date_finish":"2016-04-10 15:44:44","content_date_register":"2016-04-10 15:44:44","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"126685","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3112220756","attach_date_register":"2016-04-10 15:44:52","attach_id":"133159","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"390","attach_img_height":"250","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"452","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 19:43:32","attach_title":"Americans largely in dark about who occupies whom in Palestine","node_title":"Commentaries","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":134, \"left\":25, \"right\":26}]"}]]