But the devil is in the details. 74% of Israelis are unwilling to have a 'Palestinian capital' in any part of Jerusalem, implying that they oppose redividing the city, and only 8% of Israelis are willing to go back to the 1949 armistice lines (commonly and inaccurately known as the '1967 borders) as part of a 'peace agreement.'
There are also significant dividing lines among Israeli Jews.
[A]ccording to the Smith poll, [US Secretary of State John FN] Kerry is mostly speaking to the converted, as only 33% of Israelis reject the notion of a two-state solution.
The question facing the other 67% of those polled is what kind of final-status agreement should they stand behind. Only 8% of Israelis support a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines. Forty percent said they support a two-state solution in which Israel retained the major settlement blocs. Another 19% favored the Bayit Yehudi solution in which Israel annexes most if not all of Area C, so that it is able to retain all the settlements.
Significant differences were seen between secular and religious poll respondents on the question of a two-state solution.
A majority of the secular respondents, 83%, and only a minority of the religious respondents, 28%, said they supported a two-state solution. Similarly, 72% of religious respondents and 17% of secular respondents said they opposed a two-state solution.What could go wrong?
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