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Reasons Why America Supports The Security Fence
A example of America being a pluralist country is its stance on what some people call the “Apartheid Wall”. A January 2004 ARNSI poll conducted by IPSOS- Public Affairs, one of the largest polling organizations, showed that 68% of Americans agree with the statement “Israel has the right to take action to defend itself by building a security fence, even if many other countries disagree.” Only 22% disagree. The administration at that time joined more than 2 dozen other countries in support of the International Court of Justice not taking up this matter. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) commonly votes against Israeli policies when they are brought into the (ICJ). The ICJ has a large amount of influence in the international community therefore a vote by it against the security fence might stop Israel from building it. A pluralistic America would have supported an action in favor of Israel’s security fence at that time because for a country to be pluralistic its citizens’ public opinion must be reflected by its policies. In this case this is especially true since the odds were over 3:1 in support of Israel building the security fence. America’s action towards the ICJ was done to help Israel build the security fence. Therefore, this was a pluralistic action. The vote to block the ICJ from ruling on this case by the United States is explained is explained differently by the by two things according to the power elite theory, the public’s perception of Israel, and the terminology to describe the Apartheid Wall/Security Fence by the media. If one were to consider the trend of public and media support for Israel, which was shown to usually be positive and if the media uses a neutral term to describe the Security Fence/Apartheid Wall while all other variables are held constant it would be illogical to believe that Americans’ reactions would not be pro-Israel. According to recent research the Apartheid Wall/Security Fence is being described by neutral terms such as “Wall”, and “Fence” by mainstream media. Therefore, this proves the power elite theory is right because politicians would have to support Israel if they want to look good in the media. This is because the media is pro-Israel on this issue, which can be proven because one can assume the media is logical in its rationality, and all of the past examples lend a lot of credence to the belief that they favor Israel in their reporting. Therefore, if the president at the time wanted to be elected according to the power elite theory he would have voted against the ICJ judging this. This is contrary to pluralism because it states media was the reason for America’s decision.

Taken from my Blog: http://amateurlyinsightful.blogspot.com/