Posted on 12/27/2005 5:22:52 AM PST by SJackson
A poll carried out in the Palestinian Authority shows 65% support for Al Qaeda terror attacks on the United States and European countries - the biggest donors to the PA.
The poll comes at a time when US and European funding of the Palestinian Authority is at an all-time high.
With elections due to be held next month and the Hamas terror group gaining significantly in municipal elections and polls, the survey further illustrates the desire of a majority of PA Arabs to establish an Islamic state, similar to Iran. A whopping 79.9% of Palestinians would like the PA to follow Shari'a - Islamic religious law. Included in the figure are 11.3% of the respondents, who would like to see Shari'a supplemented by the laws of a PA Legislature.
"What is striking is the willingness of Palestinians to turn against even the Western countries upon whom they are so totally dependent in order to progress," said Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) Director Itamar Marcus. "The poll underscores what PMW has been documenting for years - the profoundly negative impact hate education has had on PA society…Palestinians are not in direct conflict with the US, and certainly have counted on the Europeans as active allies. And yet an overwhelming majority desire to see Europeans and Americans killed by a religion-based terror organization."
The poll was conducted by FAFO - a Norwegian-based NGO not known for sympathy toward Israel or antipathy toward the PA. FAFO says it conducted the polling among the Palestinian population "in order to assess political feelings after Israel's voluntary withdrawal from Gaza in late-summer 2005." The poll results were reported in the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida last Friday.
Last month (November 18th), in a sermon broadcast on PA-controlled television, Islamic leader Suleiman Satari offered the following prayer: "Destroy the Infidels and the Polytheists! Your [i.e. Allah's] enemies are the enemies of the religion…! Count them and kill them to the last one, and don't leave even one."
According to PMW, prayers to annihilate all “infidels” have been included in Friday prayers on PA TV at least six times in recent months. Two such sermons were delivered by Yusuf Jum'a Salamah, PA Minister of the Waqf Religious Authority - the most important religious office in the PA. Even though PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas was present on at least one of these occasions, similar prayers for genocide continued on the PA-owned and controlled TV in subsequent weeks.
Just weeks before the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001, Dr. Ikrime Sabri, the Mufti of Jerusalem and the highest-ranking Islamic figure in the Palestinian Authority said on PA radio: "O Allah, destroy America and its supporters and collaborators. O Allah, destroy Britain and its supporters and collaborators." Click here to view the clip.
Then someone should make the courageous decision of who are the "good guys" support them and cut off all aid to the other. Supporting both is stupid.
In case you are wondering who I consider the good guys, my vote is with Israel .
They should poll Demrats here at home. .and the Eurosocialists as well. Approval numbers no doubt, even higher. . . .
Sorry, it's one of the pitfalls of representative democracy.
Our country would work alot better if we didn't have modern democrats, either...gotta take the good with the asinine ;o)
Hello everyone this is my first serious post here so take it easy on me please. I used to believe that the Palestinians should have a state of their own on the west bank, but not anymore they have shown by their repeated actions that all they deserve is to be pushed off the west bank as quickly as possible. Let the other Arab countries fund their assimilation into their own cultures, they have the oil money to do so easily and Palestinians are after all Arabs by culture from what I have read.
As this poll was taken by the Palestinian Authority, it is hard to tell how accurate it is. One can assume there might be a few respondents who wouldn't dare deviate from what they know is the official Palestinian Line (unless they desire to get lynched) which is the destruction of Israel and her Western benefactors.
However, having watched the Palestinians at work for many years, it is surprising the number isn't around 98%. This is truly a society which deserves to be rooted out and put down like the rabid dog it is. The Muslim portion of it has no redeeming qualities.
It's done by a Norwegian NGO. There's a link to the results in post 15, though it's about a hundred pages.
And the Christian side has only one thing good about it, and that is they aren't muslims.
Would someone in Congress develop the cojones to introduce a bill banning government funding of the Palestinians.
We're fighting terror on one hand while funding it with the other. What the hell is wrong with the people in the State Dept.?
On second thought, we should be funding abortion and sterilization clinics for the Palestinians, but that's it.
34% are missing at least one hand - occupational hazard - and can't applaud with the other 65%.
They can produce rocks and slings.
And their current youngins are more radicalized than those of any previoius generation. Civilizing them simply isn't going to happen; a military solution is inevitable.
And we feed and arm these people. Tells you how stupid the West is in this case.
U.S. moving ahead with plans to train Palestinian security forces
I think that's because they are taking toddlers and putting them in those Madras's where they brain wash them and all they learn until they are adults is to hate the Jews and the Infidels.
The only chance that we have as a civilized people is to bomb them straight into Hell. There is no way we are ever going to change them. Not as long as their hate is stronger than their love. IF they even know how to love.
And the other 35% sing and shout for our destruction.
Why not just start a new thread instead of digging up the old ones?
I realize that nothing really changes, but somehow, I find it a bit odd posting on threads that are rather old.
Just going through some old bookmarks, found this article, and decided to post to it. Really not that big of a deal.
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