Saturday, September 24, 2011
Majority of Israelis OK with Palestinian statehood
From the Raw Story:
Nearly 70 percent of Israelis surveyed recently said that Israel should accept a Palestinian state if the United Nations chooses to recognize it, according to a report in Thursday's edition of The Jerusalem Post.So why is the US prepared to veto the Palestinian request for UN recognition? One of the reasons is that Bibi Netanyahu is one of those crazy radical right wing bastards who prefer seeing people die to doing what is right for their country. Even without the efforts of AIPAC and other Israeli lobbying groups, President Obama is strongly attracted to this type of madman, q.v. Mitch the Chin & the Great Orange Boner.. So despite majorities in both countries for Palestinian recognition, the US will cast a veto against its own best interests. And people wonder why the world is going to Hell on an express train.
The poll results fly in the face of American conservatives and even President Barack Obama, who have taken the lead in discouraging the U.N. from voting on the matter, claiming that it could threaten Israel's security.
The study was carried out by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. They found that just over 69 percent of the Israeli respondents felt the country should accept the U.N.'s ultimate decision on a Palestinian state. A further 83 percent of Palestinians said that turning to the U.N. for statehood is the right thing to do.
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