Poll: Majority of Palestinian YouthsSupport Knife Attacks on Israelis
Two-thirds of Gazans polled said the attacks serve the Palestinian cause.
4.27.2016
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A new survey released on Monday shows that a majority of young Palestinians support knife attacks that target Israelis. Respondents said that the knife attacks "serve" their "cause."
The Jerusalem Media and Communication Center poll, carried out across the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in April, indicated that 58 percent of Palestinians between the ages of 15 and 29 supported stabbings to one degree or another, but Gazans backed it significantly more than did their West Bank counterparts.
There were some geographic differences in the survey findings. "Over three-quarters of Gazans — 78.6% of the 365 polled — said they strongly or somewhat support knife attacks against Israelis, whereas 46.4% of West Bank residents expressed similar sentiments."
A little more than one-third (38%) of young Palestinians said they opposed the stabbings, with differences among youths in Gaza (21%) and the West Bank (41%.)
One in five youths say the stabbings are detrimental to the "Palestinian cause. "
Two-thirds of Gazans polled said the attacks serve the Palestinian cause, while just 40% of West Bank residents said the same. Only 21% of the total number of young Palestinians polled said the stabbings, which have persisted since October, are detrimental to the Palestinian cause.
There is little optimism that diplomacy will resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "The majority polled (67%) said diplomacy wouldn’t resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a similar amount (69.2%) said Israelis and Palestinians couldn’t solve the conflict on their own, nor should like-minded Israeli and Palestinian activists work together to end the conflict (64.3%)."
The poll has a margin of error of 3%.
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