T. Belman. Surprisingly 46% to 41% support federation with Jordan and only 13% would vote for Hamas in J&S or Gaza.
Survey of 1,362 people in Gaza and West Bank finds most oppose a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, and 74% believe Palestinians should stop pursuing Oslo Accords • Britain seen as responsible for Palestinian “catastrophe.”
Almost 60% of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip oppose a future Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict., a survey conducted last week by An-Najah University in Nablus found.
The survey, which questioned 1,362 people in the two areas, found that 59.4% oppose the idea as a solution to the conflict.
It also found that 61.5% of Palestinians do not believe it is possible to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders because of the current situation. Some 65.4% of Palestinians in Gaza hold this view, compared with 59.3% in Judea and Samaria.
Asked if Palestinians must continue with the Oslo Accords, even though Israel had stopped supporting them (according to the survey question), 74% answered that they must stop, while 18.2% answered they must continue.
Some 48.7% oppose non-violent resistance, while 45.7% said they support such resistance. Asked about an armed intifada, 55.7% oppose this while 38% support it. Support for violent resistance is higher in Gaza than in the West Bank: 52% of Gazans support an armed intifada and 36% oppose it, while in Judea and Samaria, 29.8% support an armed intifada.
In Gaza, 17.8% oppose resistance, armed or unarmed, and say it does not help the Palestinian struggle. In the West Bank, 35.4% feel the same way.
The idea of a Jordanian federation based on two sovereign states won the support of 46.1% of respondents, while 41.3% were against it.
Some 72.9% oppose Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s land and population swap proposal based on 1967 borders. There was no significant difference between Gaza and Judea and Samaria on the issue.
Asked about a “binational state” or a possible Arab-Jewish entity to solve the conflict, 78.6% opposed it. Only 18% supported such a solution.
Although 74.9% support an international boycott of products and goods from Israel, 54.1% think such a boycott would fail if implemented in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
The survey also found Palestinians are of one mind on the need for reconciliation between Fatah’s Palestinian Authority and Hamas, with 90.5% answering “yes” to this question.
Were Palestinian Authority elections to be held, the survey found 30.2% would vote Fatah, while Hamas would win only 12.5% of the vote. In the Gaza Strip, 35.2% would vote for Fatah, while Hamas would receive only 13% of votes.
As a whole, 48.2% would vote for parties that support Fatah, as opposed to 19.6% who would vote for parties associated with Hamas.
About 79% of those questioned agreed that the British were responsible for the “catastrophe” that befell the Palestinian people, while14% disagreed.
Some 75% agreed with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ demands that the British “accept the historic, legal, political, material and moral responsibility for the Balfour Declaration” and apologize to the Palestinian people “for the injustice caused to them,” while 17.5% disagreed.
The survey was meant to coincide with local elections this month, but these were postponed. The questions concentrated on issues deemed important to Palestinian society. Some 862 residents of the Palestinian Authority and 500 residents of Gaza participated in the study.
but facts mean nothing to the left. Obviously the notion of peace with those who teach their spawn that jews are sons of apes and pigs makes no sense…. they dont want peace…. only the leftist jews want peace with them….. everyone else knows it is futile. Leftists always make everyone suffer while they go through their learning curve. Then they say “I made a mistake” or “I was wrong” and everyone else suffers the result of their serially poor judgment. by the time the left wakes up on any issue a new generation of Leftist delusionals takes their place. I am convinced that the jews biggest problem is the Jews.
If the Jews replaced their fantasies with facts then they could make reasonable realistic decisions which accepts that there will be no peace and that there is no reason to host your sworn enemy in your home… and when others ask “what about the pals” just say “I dont give a crap about them as they dont give a crap about me”.
They must go, and paying them to go is as much a self delusion as believing there will be peace with those lunatics. Start by making anti semitism a serious crime requiring mandatory deportation, loss of residence and citizenship plus seizure of all assets as terror assets. Get the anti semite before he incites others and before those he incites commit the terror. No jew should be subject to anti semitism in the Jewish homeland.
@ ArnoldHarris:PFLP & PLO tried to take over Jordan. The Syrians were about to help them. They had moved troops on the way to Jordan.
Sharon did not want to stop them as he figured this would be the Palestinian State. The USA called Golda Meir (who was Prime Minster) to tell Israel to stop the Syrians from doing this as the USA did not want the King to fall.
Golda ordered Sharon to put troops in place to stop the Syrians. The Syrians then backed off of this folly adventure. The PLO and PFLP retreated to Lebanon. This eventually led to the first Lebanon War as the Pal terrorists kept attacking Israel from Lebanon.
The Palestinians are more interested in destroying Israel than creating their own state. This has always been the issue. These pools in a certain way reflect this reality.
Indeed, a significant percentage of local Arabs living west of the Jordan River would prefer Jordanian citizenship. But my long memory reminds me that the forefathers of these same Arabs began threatening the Hashemite monarchy of the late King Hussein.
That led to a relatively bloody counterstroke at the hands of that same monarchy, in a certain September a couple of years after the Six-Day War of 1967.
And that led to creaton of the Black September movement.
Which led to the massacre of a dozenor so Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games at Munchen.
Which led to…
Which led to…
It never ends.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker