Poll: One-third of Palestinians support Itamar attack

Most Gazans seek widespread demonstrations against Hamas; Palestinians don't think Mideast protests will bring statehood.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
fogel itamar attack body bags 311 (photo credit: Courtesy)
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One-third of Palestinians support the attack in Itamar in March, in which an Israeli family of five was murdered while 63 percent opposed it, according to a Hebrew University poll released on Wednesday.
The survey was conducted by Prof. Yaacov Shamir of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University, and Prof. Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).
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Shamir and Shikaki also found that 67% of Gazans seek to organize demonstrations against the Hamas government, like the ones in Egypt and Tunisia.
However, most Palestinians (66%) and Israelis (73%) do not think that such protests "would be capable of ending the occupation nor of stopping settlements."
Nearly 70% of Israelis said that it is unlikely that Israeli Arabs would hold major demonstrations.
Over half (54%) of Palestinians said they did not think that protests in the Middle East would increase the likelihood of establishing a Palestinian state in the next five years, while only 42% agreed.