While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits this week with U.S. President Barack Obama and others in the U.S., only one in five Israelis, or 19 percent, favor unilateral military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities without Washington’s approval, according to a poll taken by Israel’s Dahaf Institute and released by the Washington-based think-tank Brookings Institution.
However, if Washington backed the attack, then some 42 percent of Israelis surveyed favor an attack. In addition, 44 percent of the respondents said they thought an Israeli attack could set back Iran’s nuclear program by three years or more.