{"id":13565,"date":"2012-08-14T17:47:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=13565"},"modified":"2012-08-14T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:47:03","slug":"poll-majority-of-israelis-opposed-to-attacking-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/08\/poll-majority-of-israelis-opposed-to-attacking-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Majority of Israelis Opposed to Attacking Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13568\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/olmert_1241273c.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13568\" title=\"olmert_1241273c\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/olmert_1241273c.jpg?resize=460%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Former PM Olmert: No Reason to Attack Now<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Amid a growing flurry of speculation that an Israeli attack on Iran is imminent, a <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/majority-of-israelis-oppose-iran-strike-latest-poll\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">new poll<\/span><\/a><\/span> from the Dialogue Institute shows a solid majority of the nation is opposed to the idea, with 46 percent against the attack and only 32 percent in favor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The poll comes in spite of near daily exhortations for war by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and also showed only 34 percent of Israelis remain satisfied with Netanyahu\u2019s conduct in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was also <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4267658,00.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">openly critical<\/span><\/a><\/span> of the planned attack, saying that there was no good reason for Israel to attack Iran \u201cnow or in the near future\u201d and accused Netanyahu of \u201coverblown drama.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cBack in 2003 they said that in 2007 Iran will have a bomb. Now it\u2019s 2012 and there is no bomb,\u201d Olmert noted. Israeli officials have recently been pushing the idea again that Iran is nearing some sort of breakthrough, but don\u2019t appear to have any evidence to back up this allegation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/08\/12\/poll-majority-of-israelis-opposed-to-attacking-iran\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM Olmert: No Reason to Attack Now Amid a growing flurry of speculation that an Israeli attack on Iran is imminent, a new poll..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,119],"tags":[197,226,200,204,211],"class_list":["post-13565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-war","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-zionism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/olmert_1241273c_13565_24af1.jpg?fit=460%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}