Poll: most Palestinians support attacks on Israeli civilians

[Gimel]

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, the leading Palestinian polling institute, has disclosed that a majority of Palestinians, 53 percent, support terror attacks against Israeli civilians. This represents a rise in support for terror - last December, 48 percent of respondents in a poll articulated support for terror attacks. In the latest poll, 87 percent of respondents said they favor attacks on Israeli soldiers; 86 percent supported attacks on settlers in the territories.

Just before the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week, 27 percent of Palestinians on the Gaza Strip supported Hamas, as opposed to just 23 percent who supported Fatah. By combining survey results from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the Ramallah-based Policy and Survey center found that 27 percent of Palestinians in the territories support Fatah, as compared to 20 percent who favor Hamas. A large number of respondents, 40 percent, refused to state a preference between the two movements.

In December 2003, the Center asked the same questions, and found that 26 percent of respondents on the Gaza Strip supported Hamas, as opposed to 24 percent who supported Fatah.

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For the first time, a public opinion poll in the territories asked respondents the question: "Are you in favor of Hamas conducting diplomatic negotiations with Israel?" This question relates to one of the most pressing issues in Palestinian politics: who is most empowered to represent the Palestinians, the PLO or Hamas? In the new survey, 41 percent of respondents said that they support Hamas conducting negotiations with Israel. A majority, 54 percent, said they oppose such a scenario of Hamas-Israel negotiations.


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Note that the survey was conducted before the assassination of Yassin.

[Jim Sagle]

1. Maybe one of the myriad UN commissions dedicated to the Palestinians

could help detoxify the political climate there? :shrug:

[Gimel]

2. That's creative thinking

an excellent idea!

:thumbsup:

[Jim Sagle]

3. Thanks for the compliment, but I see it more as belaboring the obvious.

:shrug:

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[Muddleoftheroad]

5. The core of the problem

Is that the Palestinians wish a state and refuse to do anything to make it happen.

[Classical_Liberal]

7. They accepted the 1948 land theft, and the Israelis just stalled

and stalled on giving them a state.

[Muddleoftheroad]

11. They should blame anything about 1948

On their Arab buddies.

[sabbat hunter]

13. from 1948

till 1967 the palestinian lands were controlled by fellow arabs (egypt and jordan) so dont blame israel that the palestinians didnt have a land of their own in 1948.

peace
david
:hippie:

[JETS]

14. You are correct sir!

When Jordan controlled the West Bank and Egypt controlled Gaza from that time period, there was never any consideration by these countries of giving the "Palestinians" a state. There was more attention paid to destroying Israel. Also, why isn't there a lot of concern about the Kurds? The Kurds actually had a physical homeland.

[sushi]

10. We've been over this a thousand times

Israel demands that the Palestinians stop the suicide bombing before they can negotiate. If they stop suicide bombing Israel will demand that they disarm. If they disarm, and there's no more danger from their side, why should Israel pull out of the occupied territories. Israel will just ignore them, because we all know Israel wants to expand. Imagine you're a Palestinian fighting occupation by foreigners. Same thing going on in Iraq right now.

[Muddleoftheroad]

12. Been through it all before

and nothing changes. The Palestinians want a state and need Israel's help accomplishing this. That seems a limiting factor.

[number6]

15. The core of the problem is Israeli Right Wing hand in hand

Hamas and Hezbollah, one extremist side feeds the other ...

"Is that the Palestinians wish a state and refuse to do anything to make it happen." Bull-low-nee !!!

do anything , with what ?

being suppressed and having your land stolen, doesn't leave
much options ...

[Muddleoftheroad]

16. Do anything

Oh they do stuff alright. The PA aids terror, tolerates terror, funds terror and, according to the latest poll, the Palestinian people support terror.

They appear to be doing quite a lot.

[number6]

18. your evidence against the PA ?

the Palestinian people support terror.

do you really beleive that ?

[Muddleoftheroad]

19. Enough certainly do

Whether it's the percentage this poll would indicate or not, it's a huge number.

As for the PA, does the Karine A mean anything to you?

[Violet_Crumble]

21. Tell us all about the Karine A...

Preferably with some CREDIBLE (not conservative dribble) sources that show the Karine A had to do with terrorism. The fact that in the past you've labelled legitimate resistance against military targets as 'terrorism' should make anyone very wary of just taking what's said at face value...

Violet...

[Gimel]

22. So you prefer

perhaps to tip-toe around the linguistics in this for the numerous times it's been mentioned. Of course, the Karine A violated all agreements for arms purchase for the PA. It violated Oslo agreements. It was destined for terrorists use. I discussed this throughly with you a few months ago.

[Classical_Liberal]

6. This is old stuff. The majority of Israelis support transfer

. blah blah blah.

[Jim Sagle]

8. Got a link for that?

[Gimel]

20. Absolutely no data on that

Your charge is completely unfounded, in other words.

[el_gato]

9. Isreal attacks Palestinian civilians all the time

so you reap what you sow

[Darranar]

17. Another "success" of Israeli policy. n/t