A recent survey conducted by The Peace Index finds that while Israeli Jews support hawkish handling of Palestinian attackers, they do not support similar measures taken against Jewish attackers.
A majority of Israeli Jews support the killing of Palestinian terrorists “on the spot,” while 58 percent were against Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount during times of heightened tensions, a survey conducted by The Peace Index in October revealed.
Fifty-three percent of Israeli Jews agreed with the statement, “Any Palestinian who has perpetrated a terror attack against Jews should be killed on the spot, even if he has been apprehended and no longer poses a threat.”
This finding may give credence to fears expressed by Israel’s Arab public, with 78 percent saying they were “apprehensive of being harmed” in the ongoing violence.
Compared to that, only 57 percent of Israeli Jews said that they personally feared that “they themselves or someone important to them would be harmed in the current wave of attacks.”
The relative fear within the different communities in Israel was also reflected in the daily habits of residents. A majority of the Arab public (53.5 percent) said they had changed their daily habits as a result of the violent attacks, while a majority of the Jewish public (64 percent) reported they had not changed their habits.
Equal Punishment?
On the issue of equal punishment for Jewish and Palestinian terrorists, a wide majority (80 percent) of the Jewish public believed that “the home of the family of a Palestinian who has murdered Jews on a nationalist background should be demolished,” while 53 percent were against demolishing the home of a Jew who has murdered a Palestinian in a nationalistically-motivated attack. The issue was quite decisive, with 41 percent of Jews said they were not against the demolition of the home of a Jewish attacker.
The statistics were much more consistent within the Arab public, “the majority does not agree that the family home of a Palestinian perpetrator should be demolished (77 percent), but a large majority (67 percent) also opposes demolishing the family home of a Jewish perpetrator,” the survey found.
Meanwhile, 70 percent of Jews said they believed the punishments Israeli courts levy on Palestinians who have carried out terror attacks are too light, while only 35 percent said the punishments meted out to Jews who have done so were too light.
When prompted on the issue of Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount, a majority of respondents (58 percent) answered that in the current state of affairs, “Jews should not be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount.”
An overwhelming majority (74 percent) of Jews also noted they did not believe that the attacks stemmed from Palestinian despair over the lack of progress in talks.
Dealing with terror
The Jewish public was most satisfied with the way the IDF has been combating the current wave of terror, with 93 percent giving it grades of very good or moderately good.
The Israel Police came in second, with 84.5 percent of Jewish respondents awarding it grades of very good or moderately good. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), meanwhile, came in third, with less than three-fourths (72%) giving it a grade of very good or moderately good.
A vast majority of Jews seemed to reject the Israeli government’s handling of the current wave, with only 39 percent of them assigning it grades of very good or moderately good.
The numbers emerging from the Arab sector in Israel in relation to the handling of the current situation were also quite surprising, with only 38 percent of respondents giving a positive grade to the Arab members of Knesset.
On the issue of Netanyahu’s recent claim that the former mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini had influenced Hitler’s decision to adopt the “final solution,” Jewish respondents answered that they were overwhelmingly unconvinced, with over 62 percent of them saying that they were not persuaded by the claim.
“Overall, we found a Jewish public that is tense but not hysterical; holding firm yet in certain regards prepared, under the pressure of the incidents, to overturn democratic values; and that does not greatly esteem the policy and statements of the prime minister,” the Peace Index said.
“Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30MJyQRK7og
@ dove:
brb…..going for lunch!
@ bernard ross:
No I don’t and my eyesite is good – no glasses! I just looked on my cellphone and it’s not there either.
Anybody else? What do you see?
@ dove:
dont you see the word (edit) immediately to the right of the time, in parentheses?
@ bernard ross:
I see the date and time but there is no other link.
@ dove:
look under your name at the top of your already posted comment,there is the date,time and then in Parentheses the word edit which is a link
No I don’t see edit anywhere. Also you use to be able to open up the small comment box – but that is gone too. Instead on the top row there is B i for italics U with an underscore _ del crossed out a couple of other pics – not sure what they are 2 bullet icons Codes and faces.
no spellcheck, no edit.
@ dove:
Please tell me if you see “Edit” just after the date for your comment. Does it work.
Can you set “Edit” with the comments of other commenters?
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testing testing…..just checking out the new comment box – since I can’t read Russian!
lol…..Ted your funny……A for Affort!! I don’t do facebook either…..too much of a soap opera…..I would be hunted down by the drama queens!
I don’t see where you can edit. Before, when you posted a comment it gave you a few minutes to edit it. No biggy. Can work around it until you get the bugs out. After all….your retired right?
Happy days are here again! 😀
Ted……you added emoticons…..thanks!
Still can’t find spellcheck. When I put my cursor over the icons above the language looks Russian??
@ rongrand:
On the flip side….look at the world wide applause this guy got for shooting and killing a Muslim terrorist.
https://youtu.be/DKZbdAQHLTc
@ dove:
It boggles my mind that world can be so full of educated stupid people!!
It boggles my mind that world can be so full of educated stupid people!!
You got that right.
Forget world opinion, those who criticize are not facing these terrorist attacks on a daily basis.
They deserve to be killed on the spot.
The liberal left MSM will always portray the Israelis as the villains.
Notice the word “Edit” right after the date. Click on it and you will be able to edit your comment.
uh oh….can’t edit so I guess I better use spellcheck beforehand. Oh no….spellcheck is gone too!
On MSM last nite it showed a clip of a Muslim woman who pulled out a knife and attacked an officer who was checking her creditials. The MSM said that the officer was wounded but so was the woman who was shot by the officer.
Excuse me? How do they expect the officer to respond? Now we’re ‘even’ because she was injured too?
It boggles my mind that world can be so full of educated stupid people!!
Conflict continues because Palestinians do not accept Jews in the middle east. This is confirmed in this study where 80% of Palestinians say Jews have no right to the land and it is all Palestinian.
98 percent of Palestinians said the killing of 29 Palestinians in Hebron by Baruch Goldstein was terrorism, but only 15 percent were willing to say the same for an attack by suicide bombers that killed 21 Israelis in Tel Aviv.
http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/11/what-do-palestinians-want/
The sentiments of the two populations are not an expression of a level playing field. The Jews are responding to unprovoked brutal attacks while the pali-posers are furthering their intractable, maximalist and Judeocidal goals. In this playing field, no wonder Jews are sympathetic to their fellow’s frustration with the Arab onslaught and unjust condemnation by much of the community of nations while the pali-posers in their Jewish blood lust feel impelled with impunity by the very same circumstances. The survey results should have been much more skewed than reported.