I’ll ask the question I always ask, why do American Jews vote Democrat?

(JPost) — Americans continue to view Israelis far more favorably than Palestinians, according to a poll released this weekend ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s meeting on Monday with US President Barack Obama.

Seventy-one percent of Americans said they had positive views of Israel, compared with just 19% who said the same of the Palestinians, according to a Gallup poll conducted over the first week of February.

Republicans were more likely to be well disposed toward Israel than independents or Democrats, with favorability ratings at 80, 71 and 65%, respectively.

Asked with which side they sympathize in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, 61% of Americans said Israel, while 19% said the Palestinians and the same figure said neither or had no opinion. Among Republicans, 78% said they side more with Israel, as did 56% of Democrats and 53% of independents.