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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Israelis split on religious lines about 'peace process'

Given that Jerusalem Day was nearly a month ago, it's kind of hard to believe that today is the Gregorian calendar anniversary of the outbreak of the Six Day War in 1967. In honor of the occasion, the JPost is publishing a survey that finds that most Israelis already consider Jerusalem to be a divided city and want a 'two-state solution.'  But both those numbers are defined as 'Israelis' and if they are representative of the country's demographics, they include about 20% 'Israeli Arabs.' (In the narrative, JPost refers to the diagram on the right as being 'Israeli Jews,' however, given that the graph came from the pollster, I would go with the pollster that it's 'Israelis').
But the devil is in the details. 74% of Israelis are unwilling to have a 'Palestinian capital' in any part of Jerusalem, implying that they oppose redividing the city, and only 8% of Israelis are willing to go back to the 1949 armistice lines (commonly and inaccurately known as the '1967 borders) as part of a 'peace agreement.'

There are also significant dividing lines among Israeli Jews.
[A]ccording to the Smith poll, [US Secretary of State John FN] Kerry is mostly speaking to the converted, as only 33% of Israelis reject the notion of a two-state solution.
The question facing the other 67% of those polled is what kind of final-status agreement should they stand behind. Only 8% of Israelis support a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines. Forty percent said they support a two-state solution in which Israel retained the major settlement blocs. Another 19% favored the Bayit Yehudi solution in which Israel annexes most if not all of Area C, so that it is able to retain all the settlements.
Significant differences were seen between secular and religious poll respondents on the question of a two-state solution.
A majority of the secular respondents, 83%, and only a minority of the religious respondents, 28%, said they supported a two-state solution. Similarly, 72% of religious respondents and 17% of secular respondents said they opposed a two-state solution.
What could go wrong?

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At 3:00 PM, Blogger Sunlight said...

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