http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1205420730237&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The vast majority of Palestinians support the terror attack on Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva that killed eight students earlier this month, according to a new poll cited in the New York Times on Wednesday.
A student wounded in the shooting attack in Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva is evacuated to Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital. [file]
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According to the poll, 84 percent of those surveyed stood behind the shooting attack. In addition, 64% supported the firing of Kassam rockets at Negev towns.
"The anger that this poll is registering is about equal to that at the very height of the second intifada," the paper quoted the pollster, Khalil Shikaki, as saying. He added that he had never seen such a high level of support for an act of violence in all his 15 years of polling in Ramallah.
The survey also indicated that the majority of Palestinians would choose Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (47%) over Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (46%) if elections were called now, and that three-quarters of Palestinians favored terminating negotiations between the Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
The survey polled 1,270 Palestinians and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.