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While the Biden administration and the world continues to peddle a Palestinian state, more evidence suggests that this remains a bad idea. The Palestinian Center for Policy andSurvey Research (PSR) recently surveyed 1,570 Palestinian adults, 760 of which were face-to-face interviews of West Bank residents and 750 were face-to-face Gaza residents. The results from the survey suggest Palestinian society is awash with extreme opinions that run counter to peace with Israel. In some cases, the survey suggests that West Bank Palestinians harbor even more radical views than their Gazan counterparts. As the most recent polling from this survey (from May or June 2024) indicates:
West Bank Palestinians support Hamas.
• 71 percent of West Bank Palestinians and 46 percent of Gazan Palestinians said they preferred that Hamas control the Gaza Strip;
• 82 percent of West Bank Palestinians and 64 percent of Gazan Palestinians had a favorable view of Hamas;
• 76 percent of West Bank Palestinians and 50 percent of Gazan Palestinians had a favorable view of Yahya Sinwar, the arch-terrorist who orchestrated the October 7 attack against Israel. (Fatah, who presumably the Biden administration and the West wants Israel to strike a deal with, only received 25 percent favorability in the West Bank and 23 percent in the Gaza Strip, with PA President Mahmoud Abbas scoring 8 percent and 14 percent favorability scores, respectively.)
• 41 percent of West Bank Palestinians stated they support Hamas, compared with only 17 percent for Fatah.
• In a hypothetical three-way election, 47 percent of West Bank Palestinians would vote for imprisoned arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, 23 percent would vote for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and only 2 percent would vote for PA President Abbas. In a two-way hypothetical race, 46 percent of West Bank Palestinians would vote for Haniyehwith only 5 percent voting for Abbas.
• Sixty-two percent of West Bank Palestinians believe that Hamas will control Gaza after the war, compared with only 46 percent of Gazan Palestinians.
• When asked who will win the war, 79 percent of West Bank Palestinians, compared with 48 percent of Gazan Palestinians, said Hamas.
West Bank Palestinians support violence.
• When asked the best means for achieving Palestinian goals in ending the “occupation” and building an independent state, armed struggle (52 percent) far outpaced negotiations (26 percent) and peaceful popular protest (14 percent) among West Bank Palestinians.
• When asked if Hamas’ decision to launch its October 7thattack was correct or incorrect, 73 percent of West Bank Palestinians (compared with 57 percent of Gazan Palestinians) said that it was correct.
• Sixty-two percent of West Bank Palestinians support an armed intifada to break the political stalemate.
West Bank Palestinians support jihadi regional political forces, not moderate ones.
• When asked about several actors’ role in the war, Yemen received the highest favorability ranking among West Bank Palestinians (at 86 percent), followed by Hezbollah (57 percent), Qatar (51 percent) and Iran (43 percent). Countries with peace accords with Israel received paltry scores, with Jordan garnering 10 percent and Egypt only 5 percent favorability.
• About 75 percent of Palestinians surveyed (West Bank and Gazan populations combined) rejected a Saudi-Israel peace deal, even if this furthered a Palestinian state.
The PSR study suggests that any Palestinian state that emerges in the West Bank will likely be comprised of a restive Hamas- and violence-supporting population. This runs counter to the trite belief that the Arab-Israeli conflict can be solved by the formation of a Palestinian state. True and durable progress in Arab-Israeli relations can only come with the deepening and broadening of the Abraham Accords.
— Read on saraacarter.com/palestinian-state-still-a-bad-idea-as-population-embraces-hamas/
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