A new poll has shown that nearly half of all Palestinians - 47.5% - support terrorist attacks upon Israeli civilians inside the 1949 armistice lines. The poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) between 15-17 March 2012, also found that, if new presidential elections were to take place today, the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA)‘s Mahmoud Abbas would win 53% of the vote, while Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh would secure 42%. (Hamas, like Fatah, is not only a terrorist organization, but calls in its Charter for the worldwide murder of Jews). Also, 55% of Palestinians reject the proposal that, should a Palestinian state be established alongside Israel, there be mutual recognition encompassing recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish people, whereas only 43% accept this proposal. (Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (43), Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, April 3, 2012). Previous poll results showing Palestinians supporting terrorist attacks on Israelis:
July 2011: A Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCP) poll, sponsored by the Israel Project: An overwhelming 73% of Palestinians agree with the hadith [Islamic tradition ascribed to Muhammad), quoted by the terrorist group Hamas in its Charter, about the need to murder Jews. An even larger number of Palestinians – 80% - agree with the statement in the Hamas Charter calling for creation of Arab and Islamic battalions to fight the Jews (Gil Hoffman, ‘6 in 10 Palestinians reject 2-state solution, survey finds,’ Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2011).
October 2010: A Palestinian Survey (PSR) Research Unit poll (no. 37): 49% of Palestinians support suicide bombing attacks upon Israelis, while a virtually equal number (49.2%) oppose such attacks. 14% of Palestinians strongly favored such acts of terrorism, while only 6% of Palestinians strongly opposed them) (PSR Research Unit, ‘Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (37),’ October 24, 2010).
October 2010: Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research poll: 51% of Palestinians supported the murderous August 31 terror attacks by Hamas which killed 4 Israeli civilians near the Bani Nayim junction, with only 44% of Palestinians opposed (Chana Ya’ar, ‘Poll: Most PA Arabs Back Recent Murder of Israeli Civilians,’ Israel National News, October 5, 2010).
March 2009: Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) poll: 54% of Palestinians support terror attacks upon Israelis inside Israel, as opposed to only 42% who oppose such attacks (Press Release, ‘Joint Israeli-Palestinian Poll, March 2009,’ Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 15, 2009).
January 2009: Jerusalem Media & Communications Center poll: 55.4% of Palestinians support continued suicide bombings against Israel, as against 37.6% who oppose it. (Jerusalem Media & Communications Center, Poll No. 67, January 2009)
April 2008: Jerusalem Media & Communications Center (JMCC): 49.5% of Palestinians support “resistance operations” [i.e. terrorism], while 47% support suicide bombings (Khaled Abu Toameh, 'Palestinians' backing for terror rises,' Jerusalem Post, April 21, 2008).
March 2008: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research: 64% of Palestinians support rocket attacks upon Israeli cities.
September 2006: Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the PCPSR: 57% of Palestinian Arabs support terrorist attacks upon Israeli civilians.
September 2006: JMCC: Nearly half of all Palestinian Arabs (48%) support suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.
September 2006: Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah University: 61.3% of Palestinian Arabs support terrorist attacks upon Israeli civilians; 52.5% support rocket attacks upon Israeli population centers.
July 2006: JMCC: 60.4% support the ongoing barrage of rocket attacks upon Israel from northern Gaza.
June 2006: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research: 56% of Palestinians support terrorist attacks upon Israeli civilians.
March 2006: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research: 52% support terrorist attacks upon Israeli civilians.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "It is often said that Palestinians no longer embrace a program for eliminating Israel, but merely wish to live in their own independent state within the territories Israel captured in 1967. As a result, many conclude that Israel has an obligation to negotiate a peaceful outcome with Palestinians. However, this poll and others show that the majority of Palestinians continue to support unreconstructed terror movements that do not accept Israel's existence as well as further suicide bombings and rocket attacks upon Israel. Tragically, this demonstrates that Palestinians continue to embrace Israel's elimination.”
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