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POLL: Israelis Favor Negotiations, Settlement Evacuation An October 18th Dahaf poll published in Yedioth Ahronoth found that 60% of Israelis favor beginning peace talks with the Palestinians now, and 78% would favor dismantling some settlements in the framework of a peace agreement with the Palestinians. A Maariv/Market Watch poll of 500 registered Likud members released the same day found that 49% of respondents support the evacuation of illegal outposts in the occupied territories, compared with 44% who do not and 7% who don’t know. A third are ready to give up all of the settlements. Forty-six percent are ready to give up those located in ‘densely populated Palestinian areas’ -in other words, adopt Ehud Barak’s withdrawal map. Only one in five Israelis, a small though significant minority, remains firmly opposed to moving a single settlement. Those are the last disciples of the Land of Israel movement. The consensus that existed in the final days of the Rabin government has reformed itself: to fight terror with all necessary means as if there’s no peace process, and to conduct a peace process for full peace, full steam ahead, as if there are no terror attacks-to talk with the Palestinian Authority from a position of strength-but to talk with it.”(AP, Ma’ariv, & Mideast Mirror, 10/25/02) |
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