Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Elder of ZiyonWhen asked the question, "From your point of view who bears the responsibility for the explosion that targeted the motorcade of Prime Minister, Dr. Rami Hamdallah, during his visit to Gaza?" 17% said Hamas, 9% Fatah, 25% said some other Palestinian group - and 32% said Israel.
In the West Bank, fully 41% blamed Israel for the attack.
The poll also indicated that the zero sum mentality of Palestinians is fully in force. That is the only way to explain the anomalous results where 40% say they support "the creation of a Palestinian state on the 1967
borders as a final solution for the Palestinian cause" while only 22% say they support " the creation of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with some land exchange as a final solution for the Palestinian cause."
The results show that Palestinians aren't interested in their own state even on the 1967 lines, because they want all of Israel (that question was not asked but other polls show this to be true.) However, the high opposition to a state with land swaps shows that they are against anything Israel might support - in other words, if Israelis want peace with land swaps, then Palestinians must oppose it.
The poll also shows that support for Hamas, while low, is now stronger in the West Bank than in Gaza itself. When asked both what party they would vote for in a presidential election as well as for legislative elections, West Bank Arabs wanted Hamas more than Gazans, 15% to 11% in the latter case. At the moment, Fatah has the most support of any party in any potential election, both in Gaza and in the West Bank.
However, the vast majority of Palestinians want both the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations to join the PLO - 68%, with 77% in the West Bank supporting the PLO allowing these internationally recognized terror groups to be part of the PLO.
