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2016-04-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Almost half of Jewish Israelis favor expelling Arab Israelis from the country, but, as is the case with many other societal issues, they are deeply divided along levels of religiosity, a new report by the Pew Research Center shows.

The survey published on Tuesday divided Israeli Jewish society into four large sub-sectors: secular, traditional, religious-Zionist and haredi (ultra-Orthodox), and also looked at religious and societal sentiment in the non-Jewish population. It was conducted by face-to-face interviews in Hebrew, Arabic and Russian among 5,601 Israeli adults 18 and older from October 2014 through May 2015.

Some 48 percent of Jewish Israelis polled agreed with the statement that "Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel," though the percentage ranged from 54% to 71% for those defining themselves as ultra-Orthodox, religious or traditional; and only about 36% of the secular community felt that way.

Opinion on this also was split decisively on political lines, with 87% of the ideologically left opposing expulsion or transfer, 54% of centrists against it, 37% of centrist supporting transfer, and 72% of the ideologically right in favor.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-02 06:23|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Some people don't want to cross the river with a scorpion on their back. Others are...what?

Posted by AlanC 2016-04-02 07:55|| 2016-04-02 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Others, or so I suspect, want to eat the cake while being on the record as voting to keep it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-02 08:39|| 2016-04-02 08:39|| Front Page Top

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