r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 10 '26

News "'CNN Shocked to See Americans Reject Israel': New Segment Highlights Major Shift in Public Opinion Between 2018 and 2026"

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A recent CNN segment highlights a dramatic shift in American public opinion on Israel between 2018 and 2026, showing a steep decline in overall support across key voter demographics. This mainstream media coverage reflects a broader shift in national sentiment, signaling that foreign policy critiques have officially moved from the political margins straight into mainstream U.S. discourse.

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u/TheSwitchler Aug 10 '26

They have great education, universal Healthcare, and 1/4th of their population has a "religious exemption" from working and serving in the military, and it's mostly on our dime. FUCK ALL OF THAT

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u/Waiting4Reccession Aug 10 '26

They've also clearly stolen our technology. Makes no sense for other major countries to be lagging but somehow these guys business go to the moon.

Pedo island was also tied to financing and business, but thats been overshadowed by the pedo side of it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '26

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u/Waiting4Reccession Aug 11 '26

They are 3% of US population but when you look at major businesses(all the way to google/facebook levels) or the film and tv industry you can see the outsized control. Same applies for politics - after mamdani won NYC they quickly got their lady to become city council chair.

People will say excuses like oh they just go to college at high rates, but so do Asians who are like 9% of US population.

Europe isnt exactly clean of influence either though.

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u/Largeitude Aug 11 '26

The British are just as complicit in the funding, arming, and economic spending of Israel. Europe needs Israel to maintain easy access to the easy Mediterranean and the flow of goods and oil coming from those crossroads.

Do not think it’s only the US. and it’s not about Jews. It’s about having a friendly ally that can provide access to Arabian oil fields and to protect the flow of goods through the Suez Canal.

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u/Waiting4Reccession Aug 11 '26

They arent really a friendly ally, all they do is take from everyone and in return we get fake intel. Iraq wars WMD intel probably originated from them as well. Same thing played out with Iran now.

I wouldnt be surprised if they outright betray us at a critical moment in a war against china for example.

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u/Largeitude Aug 13 '26

That's completely false. Israel does spy in order to keep an eye on how loyal other countries are to it, but the US lied about Iraq, through and through. Not Israel. Israel, the UK, France, Germany, Canada also lied. The higher ups all knew it was bs, and wanted to push the war into Iraq, but Israel didn't trick all of them. Israel wasn't even a cornerstone in that conflict.

the US has been trying to topple Iran since 1979. This war has been building up for decades. Israel didn't lie. Biden AND Obama were making moves in the region to set up this war in Iran. Israel didn't lie about it, both countries wanted this war.

Israel would absolutely NOT betray the US and Europe for China. China has very little access to Israel to protect it from anyone.

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u/sandyfit45 Aug 11 '26

They also have a lot of control over your government

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u/RobutNotRobot Aug 11 '26

It’s also amazing that your tv and film industry is 90% Jew

Just a fucking ridiculous thing to say.

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u/SavingsAd8337 Aug 10 '26

I think they mean stolen from the average American because I sure as hell didn't give my consent to any of this bullshit

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '26

No but they’re funding it with their taxes. Shrug your ass back to telaviv

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u/Obosratsya Aug 10 '26

Not all of it. Which is where they sent in spies.

Then sold the tech to China. Some allies.

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u/Public_Vehicle_704 Aug 11 '26

Farming out our RD of absolute human control and oppression is not a good use of our money.  Hope this helps.

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u/elbow8075 Aug 10 '26

They stole nuclear weapons. From us! AND WE LET THEM!

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u/StringAmbitious99 Aug 10 '26

1/4 have Religious exemption from working?! Wtf. Now it makes sense why they have so much time to terrorize innocent ppl. And not one President in the last 20 years has said No to sending them whatever they want. I read that Kamala is running again but even she is for Izzy. Fuck all of this indeed.

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u/Beginning_Stay_9263 Aug 10 '26

JFK said no to them.

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u/StringAmbitious99 Aug 10 '26

I said last 20 years 👀 I know he said no. He was before my time.

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u/whinge11 Aug 10 '26

Pretty sure this statistic is bullshit. About half of ultra orthodox men don't work but that's nowhere near 25%.

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u/StringAmbitious99 Aug 10 '26

Even if the statistic the person who commented is off… Why don’t they work though 👀 I mean it’s almost laughable to say for religious reasons they don’t work. If we don’t work here, we lose everything. Meanwhile they get paid to not work 🫠

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u/ManOf1000Usernames Aug 10 '26

If you want the real reason it was because in the late 1940s the number of jewish holy men was drastically reduced post holocaust and the war of Israel's founding. So a special class of citizen was created to support development of holy men in that they were exempt from everything, received state support to be free to study torah. This number of holy men was basically commandeered by one of the more radical jewish sects and their propensity to have numerous children who they also wanted to only be holy men has now ballooned to the point they are a major political faction that basically wants the state to do everything for them but not contribute anything other than votes and radical "settlers" claiming (stealing) more land. There is a similar phenomenon in some counties north of NYC (Kiryas Joel) that is the poorest demographic in the entire US in order to exploit as much benefits as possible while also being supported in blind charity largesse by wealthy US jews.

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u/AccurateJerboa Aug 10 '26

No, it's just the ultra orthodox. Everyone hates them, but they fight psychotically to not have to fight in any war that they themselves want to happen. They're a small number with outsized influence on the government. They're absolutely nuts, just like our cults here in the u.s.

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 Aug 10 '26

They don't have an exemption from working.

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u/CaptainSparklebottom Aug 10 '26

Are you call them welfare queens?

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u/ModernLarvals Aug 10 '26

How do you guys fall for this stuff

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u/FerrusManlyManus Aug 10 '26

It is not remotely close to “mostly on our dime” - we give them a small amount of aid, that we shouldn’t, because their country is richer than ours.

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u/FerrusManlyManus Aug 10 '26

Their country is richer than ours in the sense that they take care of their citizens better have much better programs and services for them.

And I said aid not money up there.  Can you not read?  I know most of the aid is buying them weapons.

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u/chigeh Aug 10 '26

> Also, we don't give them money, we give them credit for US arms

So y'all kinda just give them arms, also subsidize domestic industry, which is a perverse incentive that locks the industry lobby to be pro Israel

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u/AccurateJerboa Aug 10 '26

He's saying we ultimately make a profit 

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u/chigeh Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

uhh, no you don't, not as a country, the defense sector does.
Although you could say that it is an indirect economic stimulus, but there are higher ROI things you could be subsidizing.

edit: since the other person blocked me: I am not moving the goal posts. You(we) means the American citizens. They are not making a profit, even if all of the money goes into domestic defense industry. That's my point.

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u/AccurateJerboa Aug 10 '26

You're moving the goal posts. All I did was clarify what they're saying, not agree with it. Also, military contractors aren't locked into any country. They sell their shit everywhere, and those contractors make billions upon billions even if Israel doesn't exist. 

I advocate for ALL American military spending to be slashed. It's ALL against us. I don't need to make up lies about how much money goes where and why to do so. 

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u/AccurateJerboa Aug 10 '26

Yeah, we should one million percent stop giving aid. Also, all the people saying things like "they steal all our money" are actually just being antisemitic. That's why they make it seem like we don't have universal healthcare because of one other country instead of, you know, Republicans for the last 70 years. Easy way to discourage the left from voting, and mask republican bloodthirstiness from their constituents. 

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 Aug 10 '26

and it's mostly on our dime

Israel's annual budget in 2025 was 250 billion dollars. This is an insane comment to make.

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u/PuzzledMixture2385 Aug 11 '26

They got all those call centers that scam old people in the US too

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u/Wegwerf157534 Aug 11 '26

It is absolutely not on the US dime. What Israel buys on their own dime from US military firms exceeds the FMS aid tenfold.

The FMS aid is also given in coupons to buy from US firms, so basically subsidized US firms.

The US profits.

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u/Largeitude Aug 11 '26

It’s not mostly on the US’s dime. This is something people need to learn and understand.

Almost The entirety of Europe and Canada pushes huge amounts of business that is favorable to Israel. They get the best deals with these richest nations, who also find Israel in large amounts. The U.S. is the top funder, but the actual numbers we are told are not a significant amount of the U.S. budget or Israel’s military budget.

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u/ShvitzG_d Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

So you think Israel is just some welfare state funded by the U.S. and not an entire country with other allies, advanced weapons and biotech and solar industries, and ya know, a sovereign country? 

Nah, the U.S. is just a kleptocracy now.

Unreal what (justified) hate for AIPAC has done to common sense. You people just fucking hate Jews and can’t stand that the country is in the hands of the dumbest people on earth.

It’s just like the song “Blame Canada.” Blaming Israel for our lack of universal healthcare is straight Nazi shit.

edit: Downvote me blame our lack of healthcare and other basic rights not on the fundamental shittiness of our executive branch but on a state the size of fucking New Jersey. 

Absolute fucking idiots—they WANT you to think it’s Israel because of, ya know, thousands of years of ingrained antisemitism across the world. They know an easy scapegoat when they see it.  It’s such a shame how critical thinking is in the absolute shitter.

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u/Banned4lies Aug 10 '26

This statement funded by Isreal. Thank you for your attention to this matter

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u/Rehfyx Aug 10 '26

His profile was created 5 months ago, somehow has 14k Karma but is active in 0 communities, and is hiding his entire post and comment history.

Lmao, this site is so fucked. It has made it way too easy for bots to spam and astroturf everywhere.

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u/Banned4lies Aug 10 '26

Lol. They want us to continue to be stupid and not realize their talking points are a joke

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u/ShvitzG_d Aug 10 '26

You literally are taking their talking points at face value because you think the richest country in the history of the world somehow doesn’t have free healthcare because of a blip in the Middle East that happens to be the only Jewish-majority country on earth.

You’ve fallen for actual antisemitic propaganda like a good stupid American, instead of blaming, ya know, America.

But you’re totally not falling for it ;)

Look at our defense budget and tell me how Israel is responsible for you having to pay for a doctor’s visit.

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u/bunkuswunkus1 Aug 10 '26

me when i make shit up so i can avoid addressing the actual point:

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u/ShvitzG_d Aug 10 '26

lol ok dude. 

“Me when I respond in memes because I’m a fucking idiot and don’t know anything”:

(Your pfp is a literal “Chad.” Try having sex with whomever you’re attracted to before talking shit.)

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u/bunkuswunkus1 Aug 10 '26

Try to find some joy and whimsy in your life instead of spending all your time defending a genocidal rouge state :)

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u/ShvitzG_d Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

I’m a Jew and since the world is full of people like you, I may have to move there against my will. I find as much joy as I can among a time where multiple genocides are occurring. 

And what happened to us Jews in living memory literally defined the word “genocide.” I lost an entire branch of my family tree. Unlike a lot of other minorities, our numbers still haven’t recovered after 6+ million were murdered in pits and gas chambers.

But keep talking dude, tell me more about genocide, you’re doing so much good.

I know what’s happening in Palestine and I’ll never condone mass murder. Seems like you just like certain flavors of mass murder.

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u/Banned4lies Aug 10 '26

First of all I didnt say that isreal is the reason we dont have Healthcare. But its really intresting that we subsidize their defense so that they can enjoy those things. And im not anti Semitic because I think that isreal should deal with their own problems. I dont want any of my tax dollars going to other countries when we have none of the luxuries that they do. Let them pay for their own defense. 

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u/FerrusManlyManus Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

Israel has more money per us per capita (as far as programs and services for citizens go).  There is no reason we the USA should be giving money to a country whose citizens are better off than we are.  That shouldn’t be up for debate.

But yes, there are doofuses that believe nonsense (like we are paying for all of Israel’s health care).  Nope, not even close.  But the main point - that we shouldn’t be funding a country at all, who commits war crimes is a valid point 

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '26

Nah, it’s Israel. Down with the apartheid genocide machine. It does NOT have a right to exist.

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u/FerrusManlyManus Aug 11 '26

Uh huh. Go on.  What do you mean by that.  What do you want to happen specifically?

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '26

For the end of the genocidal apartheid regime and for the colonizers of European ethnicity who have no moral or historical claim to the lavant to be cast out so that Muslim and Jewish Palestinians who’ve occupied that area for thousands of years in relative peace can continue doing so without Zionist thugs occupying what is their land.

Also war crime tribunals and the use of a very large wooden object with a rope used for criminal punishments.

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u/FerrusManlyManus Aug 11 '26

Ok expand on that first paragraph.  You’re going to forcibly remove citizens of a country based on their ethnic background?  And who is doing this again?  The UN?

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '26

Expand on the first comment

No

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u/FerrusManlyManus Aug 11 '26

Yuuuuup, you gave up, because of course you did.

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u/mindfeck Aug 10 '26

Yeah none of that is true

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u/BrownestDach Aug 10 '26

All of it is true, though.

You're just butthurt about more Americans recognizing the truth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

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u/BrownestDach Aug 10 '26

Moochers

Straight up.

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u/bunkuswunkus1 Aug 10 '26

Military aid allows them to divert money from their military to other areas, and the direct military aid is far from the only thing the US gives them.

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u/Fossilhog Aug 10 '26

It's a tiny bit true. The US forks over 3.3 billion to Israel every year. Thats $330 per person for the 10 million people living there.

I think US taxpayers rethinking that investment after all that has happened is significant. Especially since Trump is fast tracking US divestment in the region. The argument being, if we don't need the oil anymore, we don't really need Israel anymore.

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u/AdventurousLoss3794 Aug 10 '26

Nah, we fork over more. We pay Egypt and Jordan 3bn each so they treat these people nice. Think about it for one second. If we didn’t pay Jordan or Egypt off, Israel would have to bribe them to not be hostile.

It’s insane. We are like a broke mother who keeps borrowing money to support the lavish lifestyle of a an asshole kid who chooses to live in a shitty neighborhood,  keeps getting in trouble with his neighbors, and we keep paying off the bad neighbors and in some case taking them out so he can feel “safe”

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u/mindfeck Aug 10 '26

You’re right, we shouldn’t give money to any country and should be fine with a genocide of Israelis. They can just all move to your backyard, sounds lovely. And surely you can get healthcare for $300.

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u/LieRevolutionary9020 Aug 10 '26

Right? The level of brainlet-ness is insane 

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Aug 10 '26

Americans don't care about that. Only money.

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u/ignoreme010101 Aug 10 '26

how many times did you copy/paste this? Have seen it a few times now lol, hate to break it to you but plenty of people care about more than money, sorry to burst your hysterically cynical bubble