Israel Matzav

The next President of the 'Palestinian Authority'?

Once again, Kayitz Baree, a healthy summer to all of you. This is the first live post of the evening from Israel where the Passover holiday is over and I am allowed to be online.

A poll of 'Palestinians' indicates that Marwan the murdering moron Barghouti would be elected President of the 'Palestinian Authority' over both 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen and Hamas President Ismail Haniyeh were elections to be held today. There are two small problems with this scenario. One is that 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen is not going to allow elections to be held. And the second is that Barghouti is in an Israeli jail, where he will hopefully stay for a long time to come.

This is from the first link.

Conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, the poll covered 1,270 Palestinians and has a margin of error of 3%.

The poll also indicated a decline in the popularity of Hamas and Haniyeh as opposed to a rise in the popularity of Abbas and Fatah.

According to the poll, if new presidential elections were held today and only two were nominated, Abbas would receive 52% of the vote, while Haniyeh would get only 41%.
Three months ago, Abbas received the support of 45%, while Haniyeh got 44%.

The only candidate who is capable of defeating both Abbas and Haniyeh is Barghouti, who is serving five-life terms in prison for his role in anti-Israel terror activities.

The poll showed that if Barghouti ran today against Haniyeh, he would receive the support of 60% of voters as opposed to 33% for the latter.

If presidential elections were between three - Abbas, Barghouti and Haniyeh, the jailed Fatah leader would receive the largest percentage [38%] followed by Haniyeh [31%] and Abbas [26%].

If new parliamentary elections were held today, Fatah would win 41% of the votes as opposed to 29% for Hamas, the survey found.

On political issues, the poll found that 55% of Palestinians support a two-state solution, while 44% are opposed to the idea.

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The poll also indicated that Palestinians are more worried about poverty, unemployment and the lack of national unity than "occupation and settlement activities."

Note that last line. Maybe if everyone stopped talking about a 'Palestinian state' and concentrated on giving the 'Palestinians' economic opportunities, they would be a happier people?

Labels: Abu Mazen, Fatah, Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, Marwan Barghouti, Palestinian terrorists, Palestinians

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:38 PM