Palestinian Attitudes About Peace With Israel

(2008)


Palestinian Attitudes About Peace Table of Contents

Do you support or oppose mutual recognition of Israel and the state for the Jewish people and Palestine as the state for the Palestinian people after reaching a permanent settlement? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 5-7, 2008)

Support
67%
Oppose
28%

Do you support or oppose the Saudi Peace Initiative? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 5-7, 2008)

Support
56%
Oppose
43%

Do you support or oppose the Roadmap? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 5-7, 2008)

Support
50%
Oppose
47%

Level of support for launching rockets on Israel:(Near East Consulting, May 24-27, 2008)

I support rocket attacks
38%
I oppose rocket attacks
62%

Level of support for a ceasefire:(Near East Consulting, May 24-27, 2008)

Support
85%
Oppose
15%

The final-status issue that should be resolved first:(Near East Consulting, May 24-27, 2008)

Refugees
34%
Settlements
14%
Jerusalem
30%
Borders
15%
Water
7%

Level of support for Israel-Syrian peace negotiations:(Near East Consulting, May 24-27, 2008)

Support
65%
Oppose
35%

In view of the last Israeli operations against the Gaza Strip, do you support or reject resuming political negotiations between the Palestinian authority and Israel? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 15-17, 2008)

Strongly support
17.4%
Support
39.1%
Reject
24.2%
Strongly Reject
15.9%
No opinion/do not know
3.4%

Do you support a truce (hudna) that starts in the Gaza Strip and extends to the West Bank? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 15-17, 2008)

Strongly support
20.8%
Support
50.7%
Reject
15.7%
Strongly Reject
10.4%
No opinion/do not know
2.3%

A group of Palestinian factions accepted a hudna with Israel that begins in the Gaza Strip and extends to the west Bank. Do you support or reject the position of these factions? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 15-17, 2008)

Strongly support
20.8%
Support
51.4%
Reject
17.1%
Strongly Reject
8.2%
No opinion/do not know
2.6%

Do you think Israel will accept the hudna that Hamas and a group of Palestinian groups offered? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 15-17, 2008)

Yes
10.4%
Maybe
34.9%
No
50.5%
No opinion/don't know
4.3%

Do you support or reject the creation of two state son the historic land of Palestine (a Palestinian state and Israel)? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 15-17, 2008)

Support
68.5%
Reject
57.6%
No opinion/don't know
2.9%

Do you support or reject the creation of a Palestinian state on the 1967 occupied territories? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 15-17, 2008)

Support
68.5%
Reject
28.2%
No opinion/don't know
3.3%

Do you think that the Palestinian resistance in its present form will lead to the creation of a Palestinian state on the 1967 occupied territories? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 15-17, 2008)

Yes
41.2%
No
50.7%
No opinion/don't know
8.1%

Do you support or oppose Hamas' recognition of the state of Israel? (Arab World for Research and Development, May 3-5, 2008)

Support

17.3%
Support to some extent
14.1%
Oppose
63.0%
Don't know/no opinion
5.6%

Some believe that a two state formula is the favored solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while others believe that historic Palestine cannot be divided into two states, and thus the favored solution is a bi-national state on all of Palestine where Palestinians and Israelis enjoy equal representation and rights, which of these two solutions do you prefer? (JMCC - April, 2008)

Two-state solution
47.1%
Bi-national state
23.4%

Do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israel? (JMCC - April, 2008)

Strongly support
17.6%
Somewhat support
43.6%
Somewhat oppose
19.6%
Strongly oppose
17.9%
Don't know/no answer
1.3%

Since Annapolis Conference, there has been repeated talk and reports about Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Do you believe that the continuation of these negotiations serves the Palestinian national interest or do these negotiations harm the Palestinian national interest or make no difference with regards to the Palestinian national interest? (JMCC - April, 2008)

Continuation of the negotiations serves the Palestinian national interest
30.8%
Continuation of the negotiations harms the Palestinian national interest
25.7%
Continuation of the negotiations makes no difference
41.0%
Don't know/no answer
2.5%

Do you support or oppose the Saudi initiative which calls for Arab recognition of and normalization of relations with Israel after it ends its occupation to Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 and after the establishment of a Palestinian state? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)

Support
66%
Oppose
32%

Do you support the resumption of the military operations against Israeli targets as a suitable response within the current political conditions, or do you reject it and find it harmful to Palestinian national interests? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)

A suitable response within the current political conditions
49.5%
I reject it and find it harmful to Palestinian national interests
45.5%

How do you feel about the suicide bombing operations against Israeli civilians? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)

Strongly support
26.1%
Somewhat support
24.6%
Somewhat oppose
28.4%
Strongly oppose
18.1%
Don't know/ no answer
2.8%

Do you feel that the local rockets that are launched from Gaza Strip towards Israeli region are a useful means of resistance or futile means of resistance or that these rockets don't make any difference? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)

A useful means of resistance
39.3%
A futile means of resistance
35.7%
The rockets don't make any difference
22.5%

Do you support or oppose mutual recognition of Israel as the state for the Jewish people and Palestine as the state for the Palestinian people as part of a permanent status agreement? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)

Support
55%
Oppose
44%

Do you believe the negotiations launched by the Annapolis conference will succeed or fail? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)

Succeed
14%
Fail
80%

What's your attitude towards a Palestinian-Israeli truce at present? (Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, February 22-March 5, 2008)

I strongly support it
37.8%
I somewhat support it
35.2%
I somewhat oppose it
14.5%
I strongly oppose it
9.8%
I don't know
2.7%

Do you support or reject firing rockets from the Gaza Strip against Israel by Palestinian factions?(Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, January 26-28, 2008)

Strongly support
20.8%
Support
22.9%
Reject
38.5%
Strongly reject
14.2%
No opinion/Don't know
3.7%

Do you think that firing rockets from the Gaza Strip against Israel will serve or hurt the Palestinian cause? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, January 26-28, 2008)

Serve the cause
33.9%
Hurt the Cause
43.4%
It is useless
19.3%
No opinion/Don't know
3.4%

Are you in favor of stopping rockets in return for lifting up the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, January 26-28, 2008)

Yes
69.9%
No
25.4%
No opinion/Don't know
4.8%

Do you believe that the siege will end if Hamas backs up from its domination over the Strip? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, January 26-28, 2008)

Yes
50.7%
No
40.3%
No opinion/Don't know
9.0%

(Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, January 26-28, 2008)