A majority of Americans back Israel’s war on Hamas, according to a Wall Street Journal poll conducted earlier this month.

Fifty-five percent of 1,500 respondents said that Israel was taking necessary military action against Hamas, while 25 percent said the Jewish state’s response “is disproportionate and going too far” in response to the terror group’s Oct. 7 attacks, the poll found. The margin of error was 2.5 percent. …

Republicans were far more likely to sympathize more with the Israeli people than Democrats were.

Sixty-nine percent of Republicans said they sympathized more with the Israeli people, with only 2 percent sympathizing more with the Palestinians. Democrats were the least likely to sympathize more with the Israeli people, with just 17 percent sympathizing more with the Israelis and 24 percent sympathizing more with the Palestinians. Forty-eight percent of Democrats said they sympathized with both equally.

[I call these polls the “Yeah, But …” problem. The toplines look as though Americans still have their moral compass properly calibrated. The demos tell a different story, especially among younger Americans. — Ed]