by Baruch Gordon
Over sixty-five percent of Arabs in Gaza support continued suicide bombings against Israeli civilians, according to a report released Monday by the Arab Jerusalem Media and Communication Center. Sixty-nine percent are "pessimistic" or "very pessimistic" about reaching any peaceful settlement with Israel.
The poll also found that half of the Arabs who live in Gaza have positive feelings about PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, whose Hamas party won significantly in the most recent elections. This, even though 81 percent of them believe economic conditions have deteriorated under his leadership.
Nearly 50 percent of Gaza's civilians feel that launching rockets at Israeli civilians is a "useful" means of terrorism. Only 31.4 percent believe that firing rockets on Israel is "futile."
The above results are based on interviews with a representative sampling of 439 Arabs from Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israel is allowing the transfer of hundreds of truckloads of food and supplies per week into Gaza via the crossings that have been attacked five times in the last tens days alone.
Baruch Gordon
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My family is in Sderot. For years our pathetic approaching rocket alerts, barely 11 minutes, have left children traumatized. I have spoken to some of those who are sending the rockets into our Land. They admit that IT IS NOT FOR SELF-DEFENSE, as those spineless rear-kissing, anti-Semitic, comments from Australia, England, and the U.S., and the Arabic world has voiced. THEY ADMIT THAT THIS IS OCCURRING OUT OF HATE "and hate alone". Yisrael must NOT yield to pressure from the surrounding world. Before Arafat died he said on Arabic television and in person during one of his rallies (no one knew Jews were present at this rally), "Our conflict is not over "land" as we must allow the world to believe, it is not over Yisrael's borders, but Yisrael's existence." BUT, Pro-Hammas in Australia and England, Pro-Hezzbollah in U.S., keep sending sympathy to our enemies and turns a blind eye to what they do against us. "Peace"? THEY DON'T WANT PEACE! THEY WANT US IN PIECES! THINK WORLD!...EVERY PEACE TREATY HAS FAILED! THEY DO NOT WANT PEACE. And until the world grows a spine and stands up to terrorism and say "No, you will not intimidate us into educational suicide - pretending that there was once an Arabic Dynasty, thousands of years old called "Palestine" when there was NOT! Nor will we commit intellectual suicide, pretending we don't see what terrorists are doing because of our oil needs"! Until then, there will be hate for Yisrael, and rear-kissing for our enemies!
It is interesting that "polls" don't bother to ask Gazans if they believe the shelling Israeli civilians is a good and moral thing to do. Is it because pollsters have decided, a priori, that they'd get a 98% YES result? Why not? Gazans are safe from Israel-generated "collateral damage"; Israel kills 4 here, 5 there....ad infinitum with 20 here and 30 there replacing the original 4 & 5.
All of these ridiculous and disgraceful "negotiations" are futile and dangerous, because the longer they go on, the more training and materiel Hamas can import from Iran, Saudis & Syria [aren't China & Russia spooking around here too?] - while at the same time, weakening Israel's position in the world. Israel must permanently annex EJerusalem, Judea, Samaria etc., and Golan IMMEDIATELY. It should have been done in 1967, and every year since then has caused "PR" problems. Israel won a war muslims started; they lost. Does Losing mean anything?
Time is not on Israel's side; the arab narrative becomes more and more plausible as the ignorant, dis-informed young age and vote. There is NO plausible narrative in favor of an Israel with defensible borders being taught in American [or Israeli?] schools and universities; quite the contrary. The longer Olmert et al diddle with Hamas, the harder it becomes to beat them. ELECTIONS... YESTERDAY! mariana
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