Posted on 03/04/2005 1:48:51 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Two in three Israelis would back the government's plan to leave the occupied Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements if it was put to referendum, according to two opinion polls.
Nearly 69 percent of respondents said they would vote for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan, which is scheduled to begin in July, according to a survey in the liberal Haaretz newspaper.
Nearly 69 percent of respondents said they would vote for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s disengagement plan, which is scheduled to begin in July, according to a survey in the liberal Haaretz newspaper.
Just under 28 percent said they would vote against the plan, with the remaining three percent undecided.
Another survey in the top-selling Yediot Aharonot said 66 percent of Israelis would back the evacuation compared to 26 percent who were opposed.
The polls were published the day after Sharon's right-wing Likud party central committee voted overwhelmingly in favour of a national plebiscite on his controversial plans.
Despite outrage from settlers and ultra nationalists, the government is set to evacuate the 8,000 Jewish settlers living in Gaza and several hundred living in four isolated enclaves in the northern West Bank as of July 20.
Sharon has flatly refused any such referendum and the Likud party resolution is non-binding on the premier.
Most Israelis, 71 percent, also believe that other settlements in the West Bank should be evacuated in the future, said the poll in Yediot.
The survey also buttressed Sharon's popularity, with 61 percent of respondents saying the prime minister was the "leader Israel needs at the moment" compared to 39 percent convinced otherwise.
At the Likud meeting late Thursday, Sharon reaffirmed his determination to implement his disengagement plan, regardless of domestic opposition.
The polls were carried out by two independent institutes, each interviewing 500 people. Their margin of error is 4.5 percent.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, ...
Something is wrong. I dunno what it is, but the Jews must no longer have a valid covenent with God anymore. I mean they got their land back, but they're just not using it properly. They need to kick out all the non-Jews and return to the old ways and build the 3rd Temple already.
Unfortunately the Arabs will not be satisfied until all the Jews pull out of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and every other town in Israel. In fact, not until the Jews pull out of the planet Earth...
Building the 3rd Temple would involve tearing down the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. While, I am positive one day the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem will be built, I don't think that current situation will allow it any time soon.
I know what it involves, and I sure hope it happens in my lifetime.
Jews have more on their mind than fulfilling your armageddon prophecies.
They aren't mine, read the Bible sometime.
You wouldn't have to live with the consequences, of course.
The Israelis aren't stupid. They have no desire to start another war with the Muslim world.
As if they have a choice on the matter. Do it or not, there will be war.
I dont support the referendum.
Well, then, have the courage to go to Israel and enlist in their military. It's easy to sit on the sidelines and encourage others to fight to fulfill some prophecy you believe in.
Believe it or not, the Jews do not exist for your apocalyptic purposes.
What a very bizarre thing of you to say, but whatever.
I'm looking at your post #8 on this thread. It leads me to conclude that you believe in the end-times prophecy involving Israel.
I know what they are. You hate life so much that you want to end it, but haven't the courage to suicide? Or do you think that being alive at the end of time is going to make you better than someone else?
What's your rush?
Friend, they never settled Gaza.
Gaza has never been Israeli territory like the West Bank.
Not from a Christian set of beliefs, I don't.
I do believe that Israel's destiny is to rebuild the 3rd Temple though from Olt Testament sources.
I agree, the Israelis have never started a war.
However, knocking down the Dome of the Rock would be a good way for them to start one.
I don't think that rebuilding the 3rd temple and removed the islamics from the area is going to lead to the 'end times'.
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