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President Obama is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, and he intends to press him to help move Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations to a \u201cconclusive round,\u201d according to the New York Times<\/a>. But after years of efforts to broker a resolution to the conflict, Americans are divided over how much they want the U.S. to be involved.<\/p>\n\n

Until now, Obama has not been as personally involved as some presidents had been in peacekeeping efforts, although Secretary of State John Kerry has made the goal of a comprehensive peace agreement one of his top priorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

\"Americans<\/figure>\n\n

But about four-in-ten (39%) of Americans say the U.S. should be less involved in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute compared with 36% who say it should remain is involved as it is now, according to a survey conducted last fall<\/a>. About a fifth (21%) of Americans say the U.S. should be more involved.<\/p>\n\n

Opinions on levels of U.S. involvement do not vary widely across party lines, although Tea Party Republicans are more likely, (by a 38% to 21% margin) than non-Tea Party Republicans to say the U.S. should be more <\/i>involved.<\/p>\n\n

As far as how those in Israel feel, a poll last spring<\/a> found that while Palestinians and Israelis had starkly different views of the U.S. and Obama, both sides favored the idea of Obama playing a greater role in resolving their dispute. About half (49%) of Israelis expressed that view as did 41% of Palestinians, while smaller numbers on each side said Obama\u2019s involvement should remain about the same or be smaller. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Netanyahu\u2019s trip to the U.S., which includes a Tuesday\u00a0speech<\/a> to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, comes at a time when 61% of Americans express a favorable view<\/a> of Israel. About six in-ten (61%) Israelis expressed confidence in Obama\u2019s handling of world affairs in a spring 2013 survey<\/a> (only 15% of Palestinians shared that view). A CNN poll conducted earler this year<\/a> found that 39% of Americans had a favorable view of Netanyahu while 20% saw him unfavorably. The rest had never heard of him or expressed no opinion.<\/p>\n\n

U.S. support for Israel remains high, and it cuts across partisan and religious lines<\/a>. About half (49%) of Americans sympathize more with Israel than the Palestinians in their dispute, while just 12% sympathize with the Palestinians and 12% say they back neither side, according to a March 2013 survey<\/a>. Two-thirds (66%) of Republicans said they sympathized more with Israel than the Palestinians, compared with 49% of independents and 39% of Democrats.<\/p>\n\n

In that same poll, 41% said Obama had struck the right balance in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian matter, while 21% said he favored the Palestinians too much and just 9% said he favored Israel too much.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly as many Americans (39%) say the U.S. should be less involved in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as say it should remain as involved as it currently is (36%). 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