Poll Cites Fall in Israeli Support for Settlements

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According to http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=9921

Israelis who live west of the Green Line are increasingly less supportive of the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria than they were in previous years, according to a new Ariel University poll. According to the poll, the number of Israelis who characterize themselves as right wing dropped from 57% in 2012 to 48% in this year's poll.

The poll was commissioned by Dr. Miriam Billig and Dr. Udi Lebel ahead of the 23rd annual Judea and Samaria Research Conference, scheduled for Thursday.

The polling was done by Maagar Mochot. The respondents comprise a representative sample of 587 Israeli Jewish adults from inside the Green Line (Israel's pre-1967 border with Jordan). The margin of error is 4.5%.

According to the poll, a majority of respondents (53%) support a full or partial withdrawal from Judea and Samaria as part of an agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Thirty percent support a full or partial annexation of Judea and Samaria and 13% think the status quo should be maintained. Only 4% believe Israel should conduct a unilateral withdrawal from all or parts of Judea and Samaria, without an agreement with the Palestinians.

Some 35% said they support the dismantlement of many or all Jewish communities in exchange for a peace agreement than ends the conflict with the Palestinians. This was up from 22% in a similar 2012 poll and 14% in 2011, a significant increase.

Some 52% of respondents said Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria represent true Zionism, and 46% felt settlements provide a security buffer for the rest of Israel. But both these figures were lower than in 2012.

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My view is that there are certain individuals who are suffering because of the policies and politics of Jewish home leader, Naftali Bennet and those who are suffering blame the settlements as either a source for their problems or at least as a way out of their problems.
That is to say in order to get some relief on their issues, they are willing to give the hard left a more free hand against the settlements.
Perhaps if the true right who do not belong to Bennet's party made themselves more visible politically this might reduce some of the anger against settlements.
According to the media so far neither in the race for mayor of Tel Aviv nor in the race for mayor of Jerusalem, is there any right wing candidate to run against the establishment.
Perhaps the true right should think about running candidates even if their chance of winning is small, just to put the non-Bennet right, back on the political map?

[Binyamin Yisrael]

Tel Aviv has no chance of a good Jew becoming Mayor. Tel Aviv has a greater chance of having a homosexual or one who supports homosexuals than a real Right Wing Jew. First they have to stop the homosexual problem in Tel Aviv. Then we can work on making Tel Aviv religious.

You can't have a Right Wing city in Israel if the people want it to be a Hebrew speaking version of San Francisco.

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166598

‘Left vs. Left’ in TA Mayoral Race; Right Seeks Candidates
Preliminary stages of Tel Aviv mayoral race see four left-wing candidates, zero right-wing.
AAFont SizeBy Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 3/27/2013, 1:46 PM



Daphni Leef
Israel News photo: Yoni KempinskiFour figures on the Israeli left are believed to be interested in running for the position of mayor of Tel Aviv. One former Knesset member has begun a search for a non-left candidate to balance the field.

Left-wing activist Dafni Leef is the latest to express interest in running for the post. Leef told Facebook followers that residents of the city had asked her to run. “I’m not going to lie – I’m seriously considering it,” she wrote.

Many followers expressed support, while some advised her to nix the idea.

Ron Huldai of the Labor party, the current mayor, is expected to run for re-election. MK Dov Henin of Hadash formerly ran against Huldai and lost, with 34% of the vote to Huldai’s 51%; his name has been raised as a potential candidate in the 2013 mayoral race.

Another name that has come up is that of MK Nitzan Horowitz of Meretz.

Leef was one of the organizers of the “social justice” protests in the summer of 2011 and again in 2012. While the protests began as a widespread show of support for steps to lower the cost of living, turnout dropped considerably as the movement continued – a fact some attributed to organizers’ focus on criticizing the Netanyahu administration.

The thought of Leef vying with Huldai, Horowitz and Henin for the position of mayor spurred one former Tel Aviv resident into action.  Former MK Michael Ben-Ari, who was born and raised in south Tel Aviv, called on the political right to provide a candidate of its own.

“Will Tel Aviv drown in anti-Zionist leftism?” he asked on Facebook. “The left versus the left versus Meretz versus Hadash, the party of Mohammed Barakeh.”

“I’m asking myself – what would the founders of the first Hebrew city say about this?” Ben-Ari wondered.

“We have to find a worthy candidate to be a counter-balance,” he told his Facebook followers. “I’m sure we can find someone like that,” he added, noting that Tel Aviv “has another few neighborhoods besides Ramat Aviv Gimmel and Ajami.”

He asked his readers to suggest local figures who might fit the bill.

Perhaps if the left remains sufficiently split and the right wing runs on a Kick Out the illegal africans Infiltrators from South Tel Aviv campaign, maybe there's a chance.

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Another indication that the African issue is a winning issue:
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Study-Two-thirds-of-Israelis-say-refugees-are-burden-316842

Some 68.8 percent of Israelis believe refugees are a burden on the country’s economy, according to a survey conducted by the Center for International Migration and Integration, an organization founded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and released ahead of Thursday’s World Refugee Day.

The survey, which sampled hundreds of Israelis, also revealed that 59.9% of the population believes the refugee community is dangerous for Israeli society and some 43% also said they do not think that the government should work to integrate children of refugees into the country’s school system.

Related: African migrants attack guards at prisonMKs visit detention facility for African migrantsAs respondents were asked whether it would bother them if refugee families were to move to their neighborhood, 55% answered that it would while only 16.9% said they wouldn’t mind.

In terms of health, the majority of respondents said they believe that the rate of diseases among the refugee community is different than that of the general population.

In addition, some 54% of Israelis blame refugees for taking up jobs in the country, even though they would not be willing to work in those specific jobs themselves, which include security jobs, food servers, porterage, cleaning, and construction work, even if they were in financial distress.

On the other hand, when asked whether the government should deport refugees back to their homelands even if doing so presents a risk to their lives, the majority of respondents said it shouldn’t.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

What a sick nation.

[TruthSpreader]

What a sick nation.

And I thought America was bad.