The Obama administration abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, seeing the escalation of settlement building as an increasing threat to regional stability that would implicate the United States if it became the only Security Council member to cast a “no” vote. In light of almost unanimous US support of Israel at the UN, a surprisingly high number of Americans, nearly 40%, supported the US abstention.
| The US did the wrong thing | 54.8% | |
| The US did the right thing | 38.9% | |
| Other | 6.3% |
Survey developed by: IRmep
Survey fielded by: Google Surveys 12/28/2016
Representative Sample size: 1,045 Statistically significant
Raw survey data from Google (Download)