The United States took a positive step that is not risky when it moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Monday, a Geocartographical Institute poll taken for I24 News found.The poll found that among Israeli Jews, 66% called the move positive, 19% risky, 6% neither positive nor risky, and 9% had no opinion.Among Israeli Arabs however, only 6% called the move positive, 48% said it was risky, 16% said neither positive nor risky and 30% said they had no opinion.
When asked where a Palestinian capital should be if a Palestinian state is established, 57% of Israeli Arabs said east Jerusalem, 12% Ramallah, 5% said that they opposed such a state and others said they had no opinion, it should be elsewhere.Among Israeli Jews, 21% said they opposed a Palestinian state, 27% said its capital should be in Ramallah, 23% said it should be in Gaza, 10% said it should be in east Jerusalem, 5% in the Jerusalem suburb Abu Dis, and 15% said they had no opinion.The poll, taken last week, was taken from a statistical sample of 600 adult respondents.