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| Israel-Palestine |
| Arabs divided on blowing up Israeli Jews |
| 2004-10-14 |
| A new "Palestinian" public opinion poll shows Arabs living in Judea and Samaria — including residents of Jerusalem — are divided on the issue of blowing up Israeli Jews in "suicide" bomb attacks. More than 42 percent of those polled by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion between September 29 and October 3 said they support the continued mass murder of Jewish men, women and children by Islamic homicide bombers. Forty-three percent said they feel such attacks are no longer helpful to the "Palestinian" cause. Similar polls that include the Arabs of the Gaza Strip typically register up to 80 percent support for "suicide" bomb attacks against Israelis. The "Palestinian" surveys never offer an option to reject terrorism on the grounds that it is morally wrong to murder unarmed innocent civilians. Only half of the respondents said they support efforts to achieve peaceful coexistence with Israel's Jews. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #9 Actually, the population has been divided for some time, although the tilt to one side or the other does change. Part of the population wants the fun of an all-out terror war; the other part wants to crowd out the Jews by out-breeding them. Arafat pushes both options...sort a dual track war. Given the improved life expectancy given by Israel resulting from improved health and sanitation, and the significantly improved child survival rate, the Palestinians -- up until the Intifada -- were enjoying something like 7 kids per family vs. the Israeli 2 kids (or thereabout). On the order of 1/2 million Arab refugees left in 1948. Now the Palestinians number themselves at several million. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-14 10:03:54 PM |
| #8 ..are you thinking of something like the Children of Israel wandering in the desert for 40 years, so that none who entered the land would have been born a slave? Something along that line. The kill-all-the-Jews-by-whatever-means-necessary mentality has got to go. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-14 9:44:52 PM |
| #7 43% to 42%? What's the margin of error in this poll, 42% or 43%? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-14 9:20:11 PM |
| #6 Since you've a gun pointed at my head, I will drop the knife --- for now. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6092 2004-10-14 2:21:06 PM |
| #5 BaR, are you thinking of something like the Children of Israel wandering in the desert for 40 years, so that none who entered the land would have been born a slave? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-14 12:10:12 PM |
| #4 Guess it's progress, of a sort. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-10-14 11:51:53 AM |
| #3 I'll say this much, it doesn't matter whether the percentage that is for killing Jewish men, women, and children by suicide/murder bombs keeps dropping steadily - the damage has been done, and nothing short of the death of the current generation and a new way of thinking will be required before things can change. Even the death of Arafart won't be enough. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-14 10:18:51 AM |
| #2 interesting how the issue of the morality of indiscriminate mass murder of Jewish men, women and children by Islamic homicide bombers never came up. that's the fundamental problem, and why cordoning them off and killing their "leaders" is the only option. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-10-14 9:19:46 AM |
| #1 life is hard. But life is harder when you are stupid. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-14 8:00:52 AM |