Even After Trump’s Mideast Wins, Voters
Remain Skeptical About Peace In Region:
I&I/TIPP Poll
Issues & Insights,
by
Terry Jones
Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB,
7/9/2025 9:28:21 AM
President Donald Trump’s bold move to take out Iran’s nuclear arms program and broker a ceasefire between Iran and Israel seems to have worked, at least so far. But while a large share of Americans believe the ceasefire won’t hold, the majority are taking a wait-and-see approach, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll indicates.
The online national I&I/TIPP Poll of 1,421 adults was taken from June 25-27, mere days after the June 22 U.S. military attack to cripple Iran’s nuclear facilities.
I&I/TIPP asked respondents the following question: “Do you believe the recent ceasefire between Israel and Iran will lead to lasting peace in the region?”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mossley 7/9/2025 9:33:38 AM (No. 1974956)
The Middle East has one problem - Muslims.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/9/2025 9:36:03 AM (No. 1974958)
It may hold for the remainder of Trump's admin but unless we get a good 'warden' in the next election, it's going to resume. The hatred of Jews and the Jewish state is older than Methuselah.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 7/9/2025 9:56:34 AM (No. 1974966)
Israel takes a piece of land and turns it into an oasis; Muslims take the land next door and turn it into a military camp. and the citizens there suffer.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/9/2025 10:08:07 AM (No. 1974971)
There is never peace where tribal cultures prevail. The same has always been true of Africa.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/9/2025 10:21:53 AM (No. 1974982)
That Book called the Bible makes lasting peace prospects seem a bit "problematic."
See, e.g., Ezekiel 38-39.
I know which way I'm betting.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
David Key 7/9/2025 11:04:36 AM (No. 1974994)
Duh. The megiddo valley has been the route for invasions for thousands of years. Just read the history of Israel. Between the Egyptians, the Mesopotamian empires, the Greeks and Romans and the Muslim empires Canaan/Israel has been the land route between Europe, Asia and Africa for armies since time began.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/9/2025 11:29:21 AM (No. 1975003)
All muzzies are liars, because their 'religion' allows them to be, so I'll believe it when/if I see it. However, since I'm 82 years old, I don't believe that will happen in my lifetime. In my lifetime, I've never seen the muzzies honor a peace agreement!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/9/2025 11:37:44 AM (No. 1975007)
There will never be peace until Israel completes their victory. Unconditional surrender is the only route to peace.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/9/2025 12:11:19 PM (No. 1975020)
Muslims have been at war with Israel since 1948. People have every right to be skeptical about peace in the Middle East. As long as the Muslims think they can win they will keep on fighting. They have set the bar for winning very low. Anyone on their side survives and they win. If anyone dies, you go to 'paradise' and they consider that a win too. That's how they keep a war going for over 70 years in spite of the fact that Israel has won on the battlefield every time.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/9/2025 12:14:39 PM (No. 1975024)
Yeah, well, 75 years of continuous war will do that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/9/2025 12:21:14 PM (No. 1975031)
It seems to me that Hatred is the bedrock foundation built into the Islamic culture.
Submit to Islam or Die is their creed.
President Trump has put the Iranian Mullahs on their backsides for now, but as long as the Hatred remains in the culture, I do not see how a future war can be avoided.
As President Trump said of Russia and Ukraine, "These two groups have been fighting so hard for so long, that they don't know what the [Eff] they're doing." ..... although it seems to me that the Hatred is all on the side of the Islamists.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/9/2025 12:25:26 PM (No. 1975037)
As long as Islam is involved, there will be no Peace. Islam doesn't even know Peace within Islam.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/9/2025 12:55:45 PM (No. 1975052)
I'm gonna sound like Bill Clinton here but, it depends upon what you definition of 'peace' is. In this context, does 'peace' mean that every single Muslim in the entire world will change their minds about Judaism & Christianity and allow us all to peacefully coexist, or does it mean that the gvt's of Arab nations formally recognize Israel's right to exist a la Trump's Abraham Accords? Personally I lean towards the latter, I think it will take several generations in the Middle East until Isalm is reformed to disavow violence & subjugation towards kafir like the Jews and Christians. Getting their gvts to recognize tanguble benefits of cooperating with the West is much more doable in the short run.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 7/9/2025 1:23:55 PM (No. 1975055)
Where hatred and death is your culture, and has been for centuries, skepticism of peace is only natural.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/9/2025 1:52:45 PM (No. 1975062)
At least a few countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia have more or less agreed to tolerate Israel. The rest of the Arab countries and either too busy counting money from their oil sales, or too impoverished to afford it. The Palestinians and the Iranians are the biggest threats.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Msquared112 7/9/2025 2:39:33 PM (No. 1975088)
This is an ancient Jacob and Ishmael battle. I doubt there is a peaceful solution:
"If the Arabs laid down their arms, there would be peace in Israel. If Israel laid down its arms there would be no more Israel."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/9/2025 3:16:45 PM (No. 1975112)
Per #5.
"If anyone dies, you go to 'paradise' and they consider that a win too."
Sounds like a good "win" for us. Every effort should be made to assist them to enter their "paradise".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chumley 7/9/2025 4:44:34 PM (No. 1975170)
There will never be a lasting peace in the region, because they enjoy killing. They kill outsiders, they kill each other, they just kill. They dont value even their own lives. People like that cannot be civilized. The best bet is to let them kill each other off and then there will just be one left. Then kill him.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/10/2025 5:24:44 AM (No. 1975306)
Peace in the region will be achieved when the radical followers of Mohammed succumb to sanity. We won't see it in our lifetimes.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/10/2025 2:37:30 PM (No. 1975545)
That's because the Bible tells me so.
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“And he will be a wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”
Gen 16:12
God defines the problem for all generations to Hagar, Sarai's "tent girl," and soon to be mother of Ishmael, progenitor of most Arab tribes.
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