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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Poll shows soaring Palestinian support for Hamas; 72% back October 7 atrocities
2023-12-14
[IsraelTimes] Survey of 1,231 Palestinians, conducted largely during recent truce, shows 44% in West Bank support Hamas, up from 12% in September, while 42% in Gaza back group, rising from 38%.

The survey was conducted from November 22 to December 2 among 1,231 people in the West Bank and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and had an error margin of 4 percentage points. In Gaza, poll workers conducted 481 in-person interviews during a weeklong ceasefire that ended December 1.

Shikaki, who runs regular polls, said the error margin was one percentage point higher than usual because of disruptions caused by the mass displacement of residents during the Israel-Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
war. Hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians had fled fierce fighting in northern Gaza, and poll workers only conducted interviews in central and southern Gaza, including among displaced people, because they could not reach the north during the ceasefire.

Shikaki said the most popular politician remains Marwan Barghouti, a prominent figure in Abbas’s Fatah movement who is serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison for his role in several deadly terror attacks during the Second Intifada. In a two-way presidential race, Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, the political leader of Hamas who lives in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, would trounce Abbas, while in a three-way race, Barghouti would be ahead just slightly, the pollster said.

Overall, 88% want Abbas to resign, up by 10 percentage points from just three months ago. In the West Bank, 92% called for the resignation of the octogenarian who has presided over an administration widely seen as corrupt, autocratic and ineffective.

At the same time, 44% in the West Bank said they supported Hamas in general, up from just 12% in September. In Gaza, the terror group received 42% support, up slightly from 38% three months ago.

Shikaki said support for the PA declined further, with nearly 60% now saying it should be dissolved. In the West Bank, Abbas’s continued security coordination with the IDF against Hamas, his bitter political rival, is widely unpopular.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  civilians in gaza? none!
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-14 10:46  

#4  We didn't have any problem bombing German or Japanese civilians during WWII. So why get worked up when it's Paleos, without whom Hamas could not exist?
Posted by: Angstrom   2023-12-14 10:12  

#3  Wanna bet the poll workers had armed Hamas "Security" standing behind them as they asked their questions?
Posted by: Frank G   2023-12-14 09:09  

#2  There are eight recognized UNRWA camps in Gaza, all created 1948-1949, reported figures on the dole:
Rafah (1949) 125,000; Jabalia (1948) 114,000; Khan Yunis (1949) 88,000; Al Shati (1948) 165,000; Nuseirat (1949) 80,000; Bureij (1949) 82,000; Maghizi (1949) 52,000; Deir al Balah (1948) 160,000.
UNRWA statistics are a mess, claiming 1.4 million refugees in Gaza but 593,000 in camps-- which does not jibe with the latest figures given above.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355   2023-12-14 08:20  

#1  The othe 28 exercise discretion.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-14 02:38  

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