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December 10, 2004
Poll: Decrease in Palestinian support of terror
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesUnder the category of old news is still good news when it's good and at the risk of looking like a Drudge-light ( I just read that at American Digest in a post ranting on Andrew Sullivan) here is a piece from the JPost on a Palestinian poll that indicates that there is a post-Arafat decrease in support for terror:
(...) A majority of 51.8 percent of the Palestinians polled said that they were opposed to "military operations" against Israeli targets and consider them harmful to Palestinian national interests, compared with 26.9% last June. Only 41.1% of the Palestinians believe that terrorist attacks should continue compared with 65.4% last June. According to the poll, a majority of Palestinians, 59.3%, feel optimistic regarding the future in general, compared with 45.3% last June.
That's worth hearing even a day late and also worth taking a trip of to the Jpost for.
By the way, it was Spoons that pointed the way to the American Digest post.
Posted by Hyscience at December 10, 2004 11:53 AM
As a long time observer of the Palestinians, I'd read the poll as saying that a tiny majority opposes attacks on Israelis because they've realized that they're harmful to Palestinian interests -- not out of any increased sense of morality or decency.
Posted by: Spoons at December 10, 2004 5:53 PM
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