Dancedreamer posted...
I'd say the average voter's knowledge of the Israel-Palestine conflict is this:
-Israel was attacked on October 7th by a Hamas Terrorist attack
-Israel and the US are allies
And, that's it.
I would add that there's been a
ton
of propaganda over the past 20 years (and probably earlier but I wasn't politically conscious then) about how the Israel-Palestine conflict is just soooo complicated don't even try to understand it it's impossible for you to understand.
It's really not that complicated but either as a result of this propaganda or as a result of just general political ignorance, most people in the US really truly don't know much more than what you've said, and as a result end up backing Israel 100%, practically by default.
tbh the DNP's general response since Oct 7 has *shocked* me, in a good way. It's also been a tragically awful response but I fully expected it to be 100x worse.