Poll: 80% of Israeli Jews say there won't be a peace accord
The American-brokered negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians that began in Jerusalem last week will not lead to a final-status agreement that will end the conflict, 79.7 percent of respondents said in a Gal Hadash poll published in Friday's Israel Hayom newspaper.And that's not all the average Israeli Jew got right. Most of them think we would have been better off agreeing to an easily reversible 'settlement freeze' than to irreversibly releasing 104 murderers.
The poll of 500 respondents representing a statistical sample of the Hebrew-speaking adult Jewish population found that only 6.2 believe a deal will be reached. The remaining 14.1% of respondents said they did not know.
Regarding Israel's agreement to release 104 Palestinian terrorists from prison as a gesture for the talks, 77.5% said they opposed the move, 14.2% said they were in favor, and 8.3% said they did not know.And as to Oslo, which will be 20 years old next month, a Maagar Mohot poll finds that most Israelis believe that it harmed us. No kidding.
Asked whether they preferred releasing the prisoners or freezing construction in Judea and Samaria, 62.9% said they favored a freeze, 11.3 said releasing the prisoners, and 25.8% said they did not know.
The poll, which was taken Wednesday, had a 4.4% margin of error.
The [Maagar Mohot] poll was taken to mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the first Oslo Accord. Asked whether the accord helped or harmed Israel's security, economy and diplomatic situation, 57% said harmed, 11% said helped, and 20% said it did not make a difference.Still waiting for the first party to renounce Oslo to get a double digit number of seats in the Knesset.....
Labels: Middle East peace process, Oslo accords, Palestinian terrorists, settlement freeze
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