Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Polling Data - Again, the Dichotomy

From The Peace Index – November  2013 

1. What is your position on holding peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority?

    General Public/Jews/Arabs
1.   Strongly in favor    39.4/31.0/80.9
2.   Somewhat in favor    27.5/31.5/7.9
3.   Somewhat opposed    9.6/11.5/0.0
4.   Strongly opposed    17.6/19.2/9.8
5.   Don’t know/Refuse    5.8/6.7/1.4

2. Do you believe or not believe that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will lead to peace between Israel and the Palestinians 

in the coming years?
    General Public/Jews/Arabs
1.   Strongly believe    9.8/6.0/28.9
2.   Somewhat believe    19.2/18.3/23.7
3.   Somewhat don’t believe    25.1/25.6/22.5
4.   Don’t believe at all    45.2/49.5/23.3
5.   Don’t know/Refuse    0.7/0.6/1.6

3. In your opinion, does the Palestinian Authority actually want or not want to reach a permanent peace settlement with Israel based on mutual compromises?


    General Public/Jews/Arabs
1.    I’m sure it wants to    12.1/4.9/48.5
2.    I think it wants to    19.3/17.6/28.0
3.    I think it doesn’t want to    25.3/27.1/16.2
4.    I’m sure it doesn’t want to    38.9/46.1/2.8
5.    Don’t know/Refuse    4.4/4.3/4.6

4. And does the Israeli government actually want or not to reach a permanent peace settlement with the Palestinians based on mutual compromises?


    General Public/Jews/Arabs
1.   I’m sure it wants to    26.3/25.6/29.3
2.   I think it wants to    38.8/40.3/31.2
3.   I think it doesn’t want to    16.8/17.1/15.7
4.   I’m sure it doesn’t want to    12.3/11.0/18.8
5.   Don’t know/Refuse    5.8/6.0/5.0

5. In your assessment, to whom is it more important to reach a permanent peace settlement - the Palestinians or Israel?


    General Public/Jews/Arabs
1.  More to the Palestinians    21.4/17.1/42.4
2.  More to Israel    46.8/52.8/16.8
3.  To both sides to the same extent (not read) 25.5/23.8/33.7
4.  Reaching a settlement is not important to either side (not read)   3.6/3.4/4.4
5.  Don’t know/Refuse    2.8/2.8/2.6

Israelis want peace more but believe it will happen less.

Being realistic.


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1 comment:

NormanF said...

YM:

Did you write dichotomy? That fits Haaretz pretty well, if you've looked at their op-ed yesterday:

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.561201

After all, from Israel's liberal newspaper, settling more Jews in the Galilee is a horrible crime that must be rectified at once!
And yes, to them Zionists are racist!

I wonder what that makes Yisrael Medad and his fellow residents of Shiloh in their eyes? We've come a long way, baby - NOT! Just keep in mind "Judaization" is now a capital crime, according to no less an authority than Haaretz.

Dichotomy, indeed!