TEL AVIV – A majority of Democrats believe Israel is a burden on the United States and has too much influence on American politics, according to a poll released by the Brookings Institution on Friday. Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they believed President-elect Donald Trump would favor Israel in any future negotiations with the Palestinians. The same percentage said they want Trump be an impartial party to the negotiations. A majority of Americans (76%) said Israel was “a strategic asset” to the U.S., but 55% said “Israel is also a burden.” Twenty-four percent of Republicans and 41% of independents consider Israel a burden while 52% percent of independents do not. A majority of Democrats (55%) say that Israel is a burden. More Americans (34%) said they were in support of a UN resolution endorsing a Palestinian state than against it (31%). Thirty-two percent were in favor of abstaining. Overall, “slightly more than half of Americans (54%) disagree with the concept of Israel being a burden to the U.S. as Israel’s actions in the region generate hostility toward the United States in Arab and Muslim-majority countries whereas 40% of Americans feel this way,” the survey’s authors said. Forty-six percent of Americans believe that Israel should be sanctioned over