JERUSALEM: A majority of Israelis would support unilateral military action against Iran, according to a poll published yesterday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government was ready to act alone.
Some 65.6 percent of 500 Jewish Israelis surveyed by the pro-government Israel HaYom newspaper said they would support military strikes to halt Iran’s nuclear programme, and 84 percent believed the Islamic republic had no intention of reining in its alleged drive to build a bomb.
Netanyahu in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday said Israel was ready to act alone to stop Iran making a bomb.
Some 51.4 percent of respondents in the HaYom survey said Netanyahu had given a “good speech” at the UN, with only 10.9 percent disagreeing.
HaYom conducted the opinion poll on Wednesday. The margin of error was 4.4 percent.
AFP
