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| 6 in 10 Palestinians reject 2-state solution, survey finds |
| 2011-07-15 |
| 73% of 1,010 Palestinians in W. Bank, Gaza agree with 'hadith' quoted in Hamas Charter about the need to kill Jews hiding behind stones, trees. Only one in three Palestinians (34 percent) accepts two states for two peoples as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an intensive, face-to-face survey in Arabic of 1,010 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip completed this week by American pollster Stanley Greenberg. The poll, which has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, was conducted in partnership with the Beit Sahour-based Palestinian Center for Public Opinion and sponsored by the Israel Project, an international nonprofit organization that provides journalists and leaders with information about the Middle East. Sixty-six percent said the PalestiniansÂ’ real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state. When asked what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud AbbasÂ’s top priorities should be, 83% said creating jobs. Just 4% said getting the UN to recognize a Palestinian state, and only 2% said peace talks with Israel. Israel Project president Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi said she was encouraged that the Arab Spring would bring more accuracy to Arab media and by the 59% of Palestinians who are on Facebook. The Israel Project has 80,723 friends for its Arabic site, which has had 9.5 million page views in two months. Greenberg and Laszlo Mizrahi have presented the findings to President Shimon Peres, opposition leader Tzipi Livni, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Vice Premier Moshe YaÂ’alon and Prime Minister Binyamin NetanyahuÂ’s senior adviser, Ron Dermer. Next week, they have meetings scheduled in the White House and the Pentagon. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Rejecting the "two-state solution" is a good idea. I'm all for the no-state solution. Philistines deserve neither Gaza nor West Bank-istan. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-07-15 19:33 |
| #1 Certainly removes guilt when the inevitable clash comes around. 6 in 10 are not innocent bystanders, they are the problem. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-07-15 10:24 |