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Most Palestinians no longer support two-state solution
2015-09-22
[ARABNEWS] More than half of Paleostinians no longer support a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, a survey released on Monday showed, rejecting the goal that has underpinned four decades of international diplomacy.

The poll by the Paleostinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, a leading research group in the Paleostinian territories, found that 51 percent of Paleostinians oppose the two-state solution while 48 percent support it.

The figures were down from 51 percent support and 48 percent opposition three months ago. The survey was carried out on 1,270 people in the occupied West Bank and in Gazoo from Sept. 17-19.

The two-state solution -- an independent Paleostine existing side-by-side with Israel -- has been the broad objective of negotiations since the mid-1970s and the overriding focus of US-led diplomacy for the past 20 years.

Perhaps more worrying from a sentiment point of view is that nearly two-thirds of those surveyed (65 percent) said they did not believe the two-state solution was any longer practical because of Israel's settlement expansion in the West Bank.
Had the Palestinians actually been willing to make peace any time along the way, they would have had their state. But they tolerated leadership that was not willing, and so now they look forward to having nothing.
The survey was conducted at a time of heightened Israeli-Paleostinian tension, particularly over a Jerusalem shrine holy to Moslems and Jews.

It also comes amid deep rifts in Paleostinian politics between the Fatah party of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
 and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which is in charge in Gazoo.

"Additionally, the developments indicated in this poll might have also been triggered by anger at the Arab world as the overwhelming majority believes that Arabs no longer care about the fate of the Paleostinians," the director of the poll, Khalil Shikaki, wrote in a commentary.
The Arabs never cared about the fate of the Palestinians. Clever of the Palestinians to notice after sixty-eight years.
The Times of Israel has more on the internals of the poll:
Palestinians cool on two states, warm to armed intifada, poll finds
Posted by:Fred

#2  They never actually wanted a two-state solution.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-22 21:59  

#1  They never did, it was just taquia.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-09-22 10:08  

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