(all highlighting and in-text notes done by Chaimfan)http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3634801,00.htmlPoll: Netanyahu most likely to advance peace
War and Peace Index shows 31% of Kadima voters believe Netanyahu can promote peace while safeguarding Israel's interests. Most Israelis support establishment of Palestinian state
Ynet Published: 12.07.08, 18:54 / Israel News
Which government will succeed in advancing the peace process while safeguarding Israel’s interests in the context of negotiations with the different Arab actors? According to the War and Peace Index published on Ynet, 35% of the public said a Netanyahu-led government was best fit for the job.
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A government headed by Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni got the vote of 25% of the public, while only 6% opted for a Barak-headed government as the one that would best succeed in fulfilling this task.
Among the rest, 15% said all the possibilities were “the same” in their eyes and 20% responded that they did not know or had no clear position on the matter.
The researchers that conducted the poll said that despite the economic situation, foreign and defense issues continued to determine which party the Israeli Jewish public will decide to vote for.
A segmentation of the answers to this question revealed that Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu has a clear advantage among voters for Likud (65%), Shas (71%), Yisrael Beiteinu (65%), the National Religious Party (44%), and Torah Judaism (42%). In addition, he has not inconsiderable support (31%) among Kadima voters.
Tzipi Livni mainly has support from voters for Kadima (41%), Labor (40%), Meretz (65%), and the Pensioners (50%).
As for Labor Chairman Ehud Barak, even in his own party his rate of support is no higher than 19%, primarily because of the “defection” of Labor voters to Kadima (as noted, 40%). It should be emphasized, though, that the survey was conducted two days before the Labor Party’s internal elections and the list that was elected could change this picture.
58% support Palestinian state
The index further showed a solid majority among the Jewish public of 58% (vs. 36%) who support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, and a slightly larger majority (61% vs. 35%) who see the Palestinians’ claim to an independent state of their own as justified. (WTF?)
Moreover, a clear majority, though a bit smaller - 53% compared to 38% - also say that in the framework of a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Israel could allow itself to agree to an independent Palestinian state’s creation.
This structure of positions among the Jewish public is important and interesting in light of the widespread suspicion of the Palestinians’ intentions.
About two-thirds (63%) expressed agreement with the statement that “In reality, most of the Palestinians do not accept the existence of the State of Israel and would destroy it if they could, despite the fact that the PLO leadership is conducting peace negotiations with Israel.” Only 20% disagreed with the claim. (So why do they think the Arabs are morally entitled to yet another state in the heartland of Israel? Have you ever known such an insane people?)
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A segmentation of the answers to this question with the question on personal support or opposition to establishing an independent Palestinian state reveals, as expected, that among those who agree that the Palestinians would eradicate Israel if they could, the rate of those favoring a Palestinian state is lower than among those who disagree with that claim.
Most of the Jewish public is prepared to accept the idea of an independent Palestinian state while, at the same time, assuming that the Palestinians’ intentions toward Israel are not to accept its existence but rather to destroy it.
The survey also showed that the public is split almost exactly down the middle - 46% on each side -regarding the rightness of the statement that any government that is formed after the elections will eventually reach a final settlement with the Palestinians.
On the other hand, a 57% majority was found who disagree with the statement that any government that is formed after the elections will eventually agree to a compromise with the Palestinians on the issue of Jerusalem.
The War and Peace Index is funded by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research and the Evens Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution of Tel Aviv University. The telephone interviews were conducted by the B. I. Cohen Institute of Tel Aviv University on 1-3 December 2008 and included 598 interviewees who represent the adult population of Israel (including the territories and the kibbutzim). The sampling error for a sample of this size is 4.5%.
How schizoid can a nation be? The vast majority of Israelis know the Arabs want to kill them all, but still feel like they deserve yet another nation, carved out of the heart of tiny Israel? I have to wonder at times whether JTF/Hayamin's strategy is the correct one. It seems a lot of Israelis know that what we say is true already, and either don't care or, out of a perverse sense of "justice" and ideals, think that they need to lavish love on their enemies anyway.
Yes, War and Peace Index is a leftist establishment polling organization. Yet their results have been remarkably accurate and consistent. In July, they accurately reported that 62% of Israelis favored the Kuntar-release deal, but opposed, by a 75/25 margin, surrendering the Golan Heights. The latter finding certainly is not something that they were hoping for, and yet they did report it. Just like in America, where all of the major polling organizations are profoundly left-wing but yet were accurate about Obama's win and margin of victory within a half of a percentage point, Israel's Bolshevik pollsters have nonetheless reflected the public mood accurately. Do we really think that they are happy that 63% of Israelis realize the Arab Nazis want to kill us all? No, but they have to acknowledge the results of their own polling. We need to stop pretending things aren't as bad as they are and adjust our strategy accordingly.
Most Israelis' hearts are not with the 200 heroic activists who struggled against the entire apparatus of the Israeli state at the House of Peace. Why were there only 200? Regardless of what he or she thinks of the rightful ownership of the house, the average Israeli sees them as embarrassing religious nuts/militants. I think we all know that if the IDF (not that average Israeli soldiers would ever go along with such an order, even if by some miracle a future prime minister did actually order it) were preparing to kick a neighborhood of Arabs out in order to allow Jews to occupy their homes, a
whole lot more than 200 Jews would come to resist with their bodies. Israelis might not be as nuts as schvartze-worshipping American Jews, but that is hardly a big accomplishment. When push comes to shove, Israel is a secular, relativist nation that values its "rights" to violate Shabbat, strut around in bikinis, and eat non-kosher food over and above its very survival. This was the nation's attitude when HaRav Meir Kahane (zt"l) was banned, and this is its attitude now.
Chaim, you accurately framed the House of Peace struggle as "200 activists against the state of Israel." You corrected yourself quickly to say "the apparatus of the state of Israel," but you were right the first time. What is the point I am trying to make? Obviously I don't want us to give up, and we can't give up. We are reaching people--but at the same time, most people already seem to know the truth of our message, and do not care. What do I propose that you and we do? I say we need to take a more moral and prophetic approach, as opposed to just an instructory one. All of the lecturing about the Muslim Nazi threat in the world will not do us beans if the people receiving the message are relativists/postmodernists who think they deserve everything they ask for anyway. Chaim, I want you to speak in a prophetic voice to the nation of Israel directly against its sins.
You are so good at this. You are a voice for truth and G-dliness like none other in our generation. Israel needs to come back to G-d more than anything else. Israelis favoring "peace" (meaning surrender) to the Muslim Nazis is a
symptom of its secularness,
not the problem in and of itself. Israelis tolerate Nazi mass murderers at heart not because they are brainwashed (which they are, as people with no faith and values will fall for anything), but because without G-d in their lives, they have lost a true understanding of what good and evil are. Israel will know what to do with the Arab Nazis all on its own once it returns to the Bible. The Torah is the only cure for Israel's leftism, and for its Muslim Nazi problem.
Chaim, I so look forward to seeing you making some prophetic videos. This is such a gifting that you have, and I think that any such videos would turn out great. Please consider it.
Chaimfan