The 'Palestinians' phased plan
Something tells me that we won't hear a whole lot about this survey outside of Israel. A survey of 'Palestinians' shows that six out of ten reject the 'two-state solution.' And 73% of 'Palestinians' believe in the infamous Hadith that calls on Muslims to kill all Jews hiding behind stones and 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.There is some 'good news' in the survey as well, and the rest of the JPost article I just linked tries to put it in a more positive light. Read the whole thing. But the bottom line is that for the 'Palestinians,' the only end to this conflict is what it has been for the last century: Throwing the Jews into the sea (God forbid). And this poll - a face-to-face poll by a respected American pollster working with a 'Palestinian' partner cannot be attacked as a 'push poll' or as otherwise biased. It's time to face reality.
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.
The Israel Project is trying to reach out to the Arab world to promote “people-to-people peace.” The poll appears to indicate that the organization has a difficult task ahead.
Respondents were asked about US President Barack Obama’s statement that “there should be two states: Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people and Israel as the homeland for the Jewish people.”
Just 34% said they accepted that concept, while 61% rejected it.
Sixty-six percent said the Palestinians’ real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state.
Asked about the fate of Jerusalem, 92% said it should be the capital of Palestine, 1% said the capital of Israel, 3% the capital of both, and 4% a neutral international city.
Seventy-two percent backed denying the thousands of years of Jewish history in Jerusalem, 62% supported kidnapping IDF soldiers and holding them hostage, and 53% were in favor or teaching songs about hating Jews in Palestinian schools.
When given a quote from the Hamas Charter about the need for battalions from the Arab and Islamic world to defeat the Jews, 80% agreed. Seventy-three percent agreed with a quote from the charter (and a hadith, or tradition ascribed to the prophet Muhammad) about the need to kill Jews hiding behind stones and trees.
What could go wrong?
Labels: Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Palestinian opinion survey, Stanley Greenberg, two-state solution
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:50 AM
5 Comments:
This poll is not reflective of anything other than a people living under occupation, and fed a diet of propoganda through state sponsered media.
Case in point: Why do Palestinians think differently?
When a generation of Palestinians is raised that has not been fed this diet, nor living under an occupation, their thinking will be different.
The conflict is insoluble.
There is no solution which both sides can live and there will be no peace in our lifetime.
In my post above, I meant to write
"Why do Palestinians in the diaspora think differently?"
The Palestinians had the same attitudes before occupation and during the years of the Yishuv before there was even a Jewish state, when they marched through the streets chanting "Palestine is Arab and the Jews are our dogs". As "occupation" is withdrawn, in Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority, the hate metastasizes. This is the diet that is fed; this is the diet that is enthusiastically imbibed.
Chayma, where is your proof that Palestinians in the diaspora think differently? Without exception, every single Palestinian I have met in the 'diaspora' thinks exactly the same. I have yet to meet a single Palestinian who believes in a 'two state solution,' except for Nizo, who is a flamingly gay Christian Palestinian living in Montreal. I would rather think he is an exception which proves the rule...
And one more thing...Palestinians are in a 'diaspora' simply because their societal goal has been rejectionism of Israel and the annihilation of the state. This has been the case since before the foundation of Israel (as seen in the Hebron Massacre, Arab riots of 1936, etc), seen in the Arab leadership (as an example, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini, and one of Hitler's architects of the Final Solution), and seen in the modern leadership of the Palestinians (who never accepted two states in Arabic).
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