This poll gives a long list of possible answers and asks which ones are "Essential," "Desirable," "Acceptable," "Tolerable" or "Unacceptable."
Some of the results are at odds with the conventional wisdom, to say the least.
IMRA highlights a few of the results. To put it mildly, they show an unwillingness to compromise that are orders of magnitude worse than the most intransigent, hawkish, right-wing Israeli leaders have ever been:
| With regards to the final status of Palestine and Israel please indicate which of the following you consider to be Essential, Desirable, Acceptable, Tolerable or Unacceptable as part of a peace agreement. Historic Palestine – from the Jordan River to the sea as a national homeland for Palestinians Essential 78.2% Desirable 12.5% Acceptable 4.3 Tolerable 3.1 Unacceptable 2.0 Two state solution – two states for two peoples: Israel and Palestine according to UN resolutions Essential 17.7 Desirable 15.7 Acceptable 13.6 Tolerable 15.2 Unacceptable 37.7 The number of refugees returning to Israel should be limited to family members and numbers agreed between Israel and Palestine Essential 3.7 Desirable 7.8 Acceptable 11.9 Tolerable 16.9 Unacceptable 59.6 Palestine should be demilitarized, including the disbanding of militias and the standing down of the military. Essential 7.8 Desirable 5.5 Acceptable 4.0 Tolerable 7.6 Unacceptable 75.0 All of Jerusalem (East and West) should remain in Palestine Essential 84.1 Desirable 10.3 Acceptable 2.2 Tolerable 1.6 Unacceptable 1.7 |
Other results include:
A majority saying that Israel should be de-militarized (41% Essential, 26% Desirable)
| All the settlers should leave the Occupied Territories and settlements closed Essential 90.8 Desirable 6.3 Acceptable 1.4 Tolerable 0.8 Unacceptable 0.7 Dismantle most of the settlements, move settlers to large blocks and exchange land Essential 9.6 Desirable 9.0 Acceptable 10.0 Tolerable 17.9 Unacceptable 53.6 Resist occupation through violence to achieve a state Essential 36.7 Desirable 18.7 Acceptable 16.8 Tolerable 14.0 Unacceptable 13.7 |
This is not some Israeli right-wing commissioned poll, but from a Palestinian Arab institution.
All of the conventional wisdom that says that Palestinian Arabs want a two-state solution and to live in peace with Israel is wrong. Other polls are constructed in such a way so that it appears that this is what they want, but that is a means to an end, not the desired end itself.
Which is why this poll will not get any publicity in the mainstream media. This is why there will be no Time articles about how Palestinian Arabs do not want peace and how compromise is not in their vocabulary. The media simply cannot deal with these simple truths, so it will ignore the facts.
And, instead, blame Israel.
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