{"id":639233,"date":"2026-10-07T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639233\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:52:10","slug":"how-oct-7-changed-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639233\/","title":{"rendered":"How Oct. 7 Changed Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">When we conducted the <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcpsr.org\/en\/node\/989\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a> again in mid-2024, Jews were twice as likely to support a single, Israeli-dominated unequal state as they were to support two states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Palestinian attitudes in 2022 were similar. Just one-third supported two states. Both sides showed a mirror-image majority who distrusted the other. In <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.idi.org.il\/articles\/47344\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">surveys<\/a> by the IDI from that same time, 59% of Jewish Israelis defined themselves as right-wing; just 12% said they were left-wing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When did sentiments shift?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">What changed after Oct. 7? This July, the Tel Aviv University Peace Index <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en-social-sciences.tau.ac.il\/sites\/socsci-english.tau.ac.il\/files\/media_server\/social\/peaceindex\/2026-07-findings.pdf\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">survey<\/a> found that support for two states stood at 31%, an eight-point decline in the four years since 2022. Now, IDI surveys find that just over 60% of Israeli Jews describe themselves as right-wing, just a few points higher than late 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Israel has changed, but this change began years before Oct. 7 2023. In <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcpsr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/IsrPal-Aug-2024_12-Sept-Presss-conf-DRS.pptx\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2010<\/a>, no fewer than 71% of Israelis supported a two-state solution in the joint surveys. The years that followed were plagued by stagnation and dissipation of any peace process, regular wars with Hamas, and a heavily nationalist government in Israel. It stands to reason that these phenomena pushed Israeli society further to the right. Support for the two-state solution eroded slowly, then rapidly by the end of the decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When we conducted the study again in mid-2024, Jews were twice as likely to support a single, Israeli-dominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-639233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}