Hamas Wins Student Council Elections at Birzeit University in West Bank (Ma’an News-PA via Daily Alert)
May 11, 2017 Hamas Wins Student Council Elections at Birzeit University in West Bank (Ma’an News-PA) The Islamic Bloc affiliated with Hamas won 25 of 51 seats in student council elections at Birzeit University in the West Bank on Wednesday, marking the third year in a row that the Islamist faction beat the Fatah-affiliated Martyr […]
Read More →Do Palestinian Arabs Want a Peaceful State? by Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel (FPM via Algemeiner)
May 9, 2017 Discussion of the Arab/Israeli situation is often unilluminating because so much of it is based on groundless assumptions and stubborn fictions. Perhaps the most pervasive one today afflicting the international… Click here for article
Read More →Myth: Palestinians Want a Peaceful State Alongside Israel, by Mort Klien and Daniel Mandel (ZOA via Israpundit)
Apr. 30, 2017 Discussion of the Arab/Israeli situation is often unilluminating because so much of it is based on groundless assumptions and stubborn fictions. Perhaps the most pervasive one today afflicting the international political class is the notion that Palestinian Arabs primarily desire a state of their own, living peacefully alongside Israel. Some examples in […]
Read More →Where Are the Moderate Muslims? by Hussein Aboubakr (Prager U.)
Apr. 27, 2017 After every terrorist attack, politicians and pundits reassure us that the atrocity does not represent the true beliefs of the “moderate Muslim majority.” But how many moderates are there? And what exactly does “moderate” mean? Military instructor and researcher Hussein Aboubakr explains. Click here for 6 min. video
Read More →Survey: Most Israeli Arabs Wouldn’t Live with Jews But Want Their Children to Study with Them (Jewish People Policy Inst. via Daily Alert)
Apr. 21, 2017 Survey: Most Israeli Arabs Wouldn’t Live with Jews But Want Their Children to Study with Them The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) released its second annual Pluralism Index on Thursday. The survey finds that more than 90% of Jewish Israelis and almost 80% of Arab Israelis feel “comfortable” or “very comfortable” to […]
Read More →Most Palestinians Dream of Obliterating the Jewish State – Daniel Pipes (Mosaic via Daily Alert)
Apr. 14, 2017 Most Palestinians Dream of Obliterating the Jewish State – Daniel Pipes (Mosaic) In “Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution?” Daniel Polisar of Shalem College in Jerusalem studied 400 opinion polls of Palestinian views to find that Palestinians collectively hold three related views of Israel: it has no historical or moral claim to […]
Read More →Breaking the Palestinians’ Will to Fight by Daniel Pipes (Mosaic via Danielpipes.org)
Apr. 10, 2017 Daniel Polisar of Shalem College in Jerusalem shook the debate over Palestinian-Israeli relations in November 2015 with his essay, “What Do Palestinians Want?” In it, having studied 330 polls to “understand the perspective of everyday Palestinians” toward Israel, Israelis, Jews, and the utility of violence against them, he found that Palestinian attackers […]
Read More →Overwhelming number of Palestinians are against teaching their children peace (EoZ)
Apr. 5, 2017 Mosaic has a must-read article surveying hundreds of Palestinian public opinion polls to find out how interested Palestinians are in peace with Israel. Answer: They aren’t. [I]n June 2014, the Washington Institute’s David Pollock commissioned and supervised a survey of West Bank and Gaza residents. In the poll, respondents were presented with […]
Read More →Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution? – Daniel Polisar (Mosaic via Daily Alert)
Apr. 5, 2017 Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution? – Daniel Polisar It is commonly asserted that there is majority support among Palestinians for a two-state solution. I examined 400 surveys carried out by five Palestinian research centers which have conducted regular polls in the West Bank and Gaza for many years. The depth of […]
Read More →New Poll: Decrease in Support among Israeli Jews for Withdrawal from the West Bank and the Establishment of a Palestinian State (JCPA via Daily alert)
From Daily Alert, Mar. 28, 2017 New Poll: Decrease in Support among Israeli Jews for Withdrawal from the West Bank and the Establishment of a Palestinian State (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) A poll conducted on March 20-21, 2017, by leading Israeli pollster Mina Tzemach for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs found a decrease in […]
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