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Palestinians: We Prefer Terrorism to Peace with Israel (mot much changed since 1941 poll)
Gatestoneinstitute ^ | June 22, 2023 | Bassam Tawil 

Posted on 06/23/2023 12:43:41 PM PDT by Conservat1

Palestinians: We Prefer Terrorism to Peace with Israel

The findings of the poll, which was conducted between June 7 and 11, show that the Biden Administration and all those who continue to talk about reviving the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians are living under an illusion. The results of the poll indicate that most Palestinians are more interested in killing Jews than making peace with them. The results, in addition, show that most Palestinians want as a successor to their current leader, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who has ties to terror.

According to the poll, the largest percentage of Palestinians (24%) believe that the rise of extremist Islamist terror groups such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) was "the most positive or the best thing that has happened to the Palestinian people since the Nakba."

[A] majority of the Palestinians see terrorist groups and the murder of Jews -- not the construction of schools and hospitals -- as their proudest accomplishment over the past seven decades.

More than half of the Palestinians, the poll showed, prefer an "armed struggle" (terrorism) against Israel to negotiations with it.

The only thing that seems to disturb the Palestinian public is the possibility that Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority security forces might go after the terror groups.

The armed terrorists of these groups are regularly hailed by Palestinians as heroes and "martyrs".

The Palestinians want the gunmen to remain on the streets and continue their terror attacks against Jews. The vast majority (86%) say that the PA does not have the right to arrest members of these terrors groups to prevent them from carrying out attacks against Israel. This view seems to be one of the reasons that Abbas is reluctant to order his security forces to crack down on these terror groups and confiscate their weapons. Abbas is undoubtedly aware of the widespread support the terrorists enjoy among the Palestinian people. He undoubtedly knows that if he goes against the terrorists, he will be denounced by his people as a traitor and Israeli collaborator. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are already facing severe criticism for conducting security coordination with Israeli security forces in the West Bank.

According to the latest PSR poll, support for the concept of the "two-state solution" stands at 28% and opposition stands at 70%. A poll conducted by the same center three months earlier showed that support for the "two-state solution" stood at only 27%, while opposition to it stood at 71%.

When it comes to choosing their leaders, Palestinians again showed that they prefer a candidate who killed Jews and wants to destroy Israel to anyone who is perceived as being overly moderate towards Israel.

While the Biden administration seems to have confidence in Abbas and his Palestinian Authority, 84% of the Palestinians -- with good reason -- believe that PA institutions are corrupt. Moreover, the level of dissatisfaction with the performance of Abbas, the poll showed, stands at 80%.

The results of the latest Palestinian poll show that the Biden administration and the European Union, by believing that they can promote the idea of a "two-state solution" between Israel and the Palestinians, continue to engage in self-deception. The Americans and Europeans appear blithely oblivious to the sentiments of the Palestinian street and prefer to listen only to what senior Palestinian officials tell them behind closed doors in Ramallah. The Palestinian officials are clearly misrepresenting the situation when they talk about the Palestinians' desire to achieve peace and establish a Palestinian state next to Israel. They are saying that because they are hoping to get a state in the West Bank which they could then use as a launching pad from which to attack Israel. This is exactly what the Palestinians did after Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005 and handed it over to the Palestinian Authority: they started firing rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel.

The radicalization is the direct result of decades of brainwashing and incitement against Israel taking place nonstop in mosques, throughout the media, in schools, on university campuses, in sports, at summer camps and even in crossword puzzles.

(The radicalization is the direct result of decades of brainwashing and incitement against Israel taking place nonstop in mosques, throughout the media, in schools, on university campuses, in sports, at summer camps and even in crossword puzzles. Palestinians are constantly being told by their leaders – falsely – that, for instance, the Jews are "storming" and "desecrating with their filthy[sic] feet" the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; that Israeli Jews "seek to control the world," and that Jews were sending rats into Jerusalem's Old City and wild pigs into the fields to drive Arabs out of their homes, although it is not yet clear how the animals were trained to know which homes belong to Arabs and which to Jews.)

If anything, the results of the poll show that the Americans and Europeans are wasting their time trying to convince the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table with Israel.

Are the EU or the Biden Administration putting any pressure on Abbas and the Palestinian leadership to crack down on the terror groups and cease their incessant incitement against Israel? No, instead the EU is sending equipment to the Palestinians to help them illegally build on land to be negotiated. The US, for its part, not only pretends that fighting terrorism is morally equivalent to committing terrorism, but also, in defiance of the US Congress, continues to reward Mahmoud Abbas's "pay-to-slay" "jobs program" with fungible money, still incentivizing Palestinians to murder Jews.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: jihad; poll; socalledpalestinians; wot
Poll.. February 1941, 88 percent of those polled expressed support for [Nazi] Germany..
_ Cohen, H. (2008). Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948. University of California Press, p. 175
1 posted on 06/23/2023 12:43:41 PM PDT by Conservat1
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To: Conservat1

What is the old saying about never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity... SMH.


2 posted on 06/23/2023 12:56:36 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: desertsolitaire

“Biden Administration and all those who continue to talk about peace are living under an illusion.”

It is really an illusion? These wretched people are not stupid or crazy. They know the truth. They actually want Israel gone.


3 posted on 06/23/2023 1:07:56 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy

That’s because moHAMmed (pigs be upon him) hated the Jews with a burning passion.


4 posted on 06/23/2023 1:33:07 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Conservat1

Bulldoze them into the Mediterranean.


5 posted on 06/23/2023 1:52:55 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Conservat1
“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
― Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography

6 posted on 06/23/2023 1:54:49 PM PDT by threefinger
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To: Conservat1

They don’t want a two state solution. They want a no nation of Israelis and one nation of Palestinians


7 posted on 06/23/2023 2:01:16 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (AS )
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To: Conservat1

They wouldn’t prefer it so much if they were on the receiving end of it.


8 posted on 06/23/2023 2:24:57 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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To: Conservat1

Yeah, that’s a Hate-On alright.


9 posted on 06/23/2023 3:00:31 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Conservat1

You mean nothing has changed since at least 1041 AC.


10 posted on 06/23/2023 3:02:23 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Keeps em’ busy.


11 posted on 06/23/2023 3:34:17 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: Conservat1

Show this to everyone with that stupid Co-exist sticker


12 posted on 06/23/2023 4:27:29 PM PDT by dixie1202
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