Thread by @MarkWeisbrot

Just this morning we released results from a poll I worked on in conjunction with @YouGov, and wow. A solid majority of Americans support ending arms shipments to Israel until it stops its attacks on #Gaza
1/6cepr.net/press-release/…

We specifically asked about stopping arms shipments to Israel, not a ceasefire, because “ceasefire” means so many different things to different people. “Stopping arms shipment” is specific and unambiguous.

We saw a big partisan divide in responses. Fully 62% of President Biden’s 2020 voters support halting arms shipments to Israel. Only 14% of Biden voters do not. This is his electoral base

Even a sizable minority (30%) of Republicans favor stopping arms shipments. But there is another result that the Biden campaign should be worried about: Of those who did not vote in the 2020 presidential election, fully 60% agreed that the U.S. should block weapons shipments. These are the voters Biden needs to turn out to expand his base.

All this is to say that the American public may have already moved past the idea of a “ceasefire.” We all see the images on TV. The heartache of 30,000+ dead– most of them women and children.

We have the power to stop this. Everyone knows that the U.S. could end this today if we wanted to. This is Josep Borell, the highest official of the European Union in charge of foreign policy, telling the United States government that they need to do something, like cut weapons transfers to Israel, to stop the mass killing of civilians by the Israeli military