As the people who the most affected by what happens in the war, Israelis were polled and here is what they think about the critical issues that President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss according to two separate polls. The first is found in a report from The Jerusalem Post:

A large majority of Israeli Jews support US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s population to other countries, a Jewish People Policy Institute Israel Index survey revealed Monday.

The survey, which was published ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump in Washington, found that approximately eight out of 10 Jewish Israelis support Trump’s suggestion that “Arabs from Gaza should relocate to another country,” while most Arab Israelis oppose the proposal.

Relocation to many is a practical one:

According to the findings, 43% of all Israelis believe Trump’s plan is “practical” and should be pursued, while an additional 30% of Jewish Israelis responded that the plan is “not practical, but desirable,” meaning they support the idea but do not see it as realistically feasible.

However, 13% of Israelis believe Trump’s proposal is “immoral.” This group includes 54% of Arab respondents and only 3% of Jewish Israelis.

The divide is political on this issue, though:

The JPPI study also found differences in opinion in political views, with 81% of right-wing respondents saying the plan is both desirable and practical, compared to 31% of those in the Center and 27% of left-wing Jewish respondents.

A majority of the political party that the PM leads agree with the proposal:

Results found that a majority of Likud voters say they believe the relocation plan is both desirable and practical, with half of National Unity Party voters agreeing it is desirable but not practical. Furthermore, 62% of those who associated themselves with the Labor Party consider the plan either a “distraction” or “immoral.”

Those who oppose the idea do so not because they see it as wrong, but because they don’t see where it as not realistic:

According to the JPPI, the idea of significantly relocating Gaza’s Palestinian population – once considered illegitimate by many Israelis – now sees support among Jewish Israelis. When there is opposition, it is typically based on practicality, with some dismissing the plan as “a distraction” rather than on moral grounds.

Israelis supported relocating Palestinians from the West Bank in the past:

Surveys conducted in the 1990s and mid-2000s on the transfer of Palestinians from the West Bank generally found support levels of 40%–50% among Jewish Israelis.

Opposition to a Palestinian State

And we turn to another poll that addresses annexing the West Bank and a Palestinian state is seen in report from the Jewish News Syndicate:

Seventy-one percent of Israelis oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria. Nearly 70% want to extend Israeli sovereignty over the area, according to a poll conducted on Jan. 29.

Both poll’s timing couldn’t be better as Netanyahu will meet with President Trump as well as members of Congress:

The survey comes on the background of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure on Sunday to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.

“The findings are public just in time for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit with President Trump. Bibi can now go to the president of the United States with a clear statement that this is the will of the people of Israel,” Avi Abelow, CEO of Pulse of Israel, which co-sponsored the poll, told JNS.

The West Bank or Judea and Samaria is supposed to one of the topics of discussion:

The future of Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, is likely to be discussed between the two leaders as diplomatic relations with Arab countries is expected to be a key topic.

As we already know, Saudi Arabia wants a Palestinian state and Israel doesn’t:

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has signaled that a Palestinian state is a condition for normalization of relations with Jerusalem. (Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said during a Jan. 22 speech in the Knesset plenum that Israel has made “no such promise.”)

Turning to the polling we see that majorities are against it:

The survey asked respondents whether they would support a Palestinian state as part of an Israeli-Saudi peace deal. More than half said they would not even do so when attached to Saudi normalization.

Thirty-nine percent said they would support a Palestinian state linked to a Saudi agreement. Eight percent had no opinion.

The results echoed a survey conducted in May 2024 by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, which found that 64% of the Israeli public opposed the creation of a Palestinian state as part of normalization with the Saudis.

The PM hasn’t publicly addressed the issue:

Netanyahu has remained mum on extending Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, though he, with Trump’s backing, attempted to do so over parts of the region during the U.S. president’s first term in 2020.

Trump signaled he might be for it and his former US ambassador to Israel during his first term even wrote a book supporting the notion:

Allies of both the president and the prime minister support the idea of Israeli sovereignty. Jettisoning the two-state solution via Israel annexing Judea and Samaria was the theme of an October 2024 conference in Jerusalem. Serving as inspiration for the conference was a new book by Trump’s former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, “One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”

Trump Could Be The Key

Israelis Finance Minister thinks all these ideas stand a better chance now that Trump is in the White House:

A prominent member of Netanyahu’s coalition, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism Party, said in November that Trump’s election provides an opportunity for annexation.

“I have no doubt that President Trump, who showed courage and determination in his decisions in the first term, will support the State of Israel in this move,” he said.

One Non-governmental Organization or NGO thinks that this poll comes at a good time as well:

Others pushing for Israeli rule over Judea and Samaria include groups such as the Sovereignty Movement, an Israeli NGO that also co-sponsored the new survey.

“The Sovereignty Movement is pleased with the results of the poll, which reflect the health of the nation and the awakening from the illusion of peace through a Palestinian state,” said the group’s co-chairs Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover. “The Israeli public now understands that only sovereignty is the plan that will bring security and regional stability.”

And this second poll shows that Israelis overwhelmingly like Trumps relocation proposal:

The poll found that 80% of the Israeli public agreed with the idea floated by Trump on Jan. 25 that Arab nations, particularly Egypt and Jordan, take in more Palestinians from Gaza to “clean out” the enclave. Only 10% opposed the proposal. Another 10% had no opinion on the matter.

Said Abelow, “It is quite clear that the Israeli people are looking for our leaders to stand up and work with President Trump and his administration to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria because Israelis have realized that Arab self-rule in Judea and Samaria is an existential danger to all of our lives, as it was in Gaza.”

Abelow sees Trump’s desires for peace and not war as a positive for Israel controlling both Gaza but the West Bank and the poll bears that out, too:

Sovereignty applies Trump’s doctrine of “peace through strength” against “an enemy that educates its children to kill Jews and destroy the Jewish State of Israel,” Abelow added, noting that the Palestinian Authority, which rules Arab-populated areas in Judea and Samaria, shares the same goal as Hamas.

According to the poll, of the 71% who opposed a Palestinian state, 59% had opposed it in the past. Another 12% had supported a Palestinian state at one time but changed their mind.

Of those still supporting a Palestinian state, 25% had held that position in the past. Only 4% had switched their position from opposition to support.

The survey was conducted by polling firm Direct Polls Ltd. It surveyed 504 adults constituting a representative sample of Israel’s general population. The statistical error was 4.5%± with a 95% confidence level.

Israelis want security and they want to maintain their sovereignty and national identity. If these are in jeopardy, and they certainly are by all these terrorists and many nations who to this day deny Israel’s right to existence, then our hope and prayers is that they find a willing supporter in the Trump administration. Yes, I know there are some that don’t think the Psalm 83 war is found in prophecy or think it already occurred previously in 1948, but I see how this will happen sooner than later. Fortunately we have the right man leading America when it does.