There is a view held by the wishful thinkers, the ideologues, politicians seeking their place in history and the downright malign Israel- and Jew-haters that somehow, if Israel were to withdraw from Judea and Samaria/the West Bank a Palestinian state would be possible, based on the 1949 cease fire lines, the so-called 1967 borders.
ynetnews reports that a recent poll reveals that no less than 32% of those Palestinians questioned believe that the murder of 5 family members in Itamar last month, including a baby and two children, was justified.
I have been told that we should be stressing that 63% did not support these murders and that to emphasise the minority that did is unworthy.
I beg to differ.
Here are the highlights of the report:
A team of Israeli and Palestinian pollsters says a third of Palestinians surveyed said they supported an attack last month that saw five members of the Fogel family stabbed to death in their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
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The poll found 63 percent opposed the attack and 32 percent backed it. Pollsters from Hebrew University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research surveyed 1,270 Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. The margin of error was 3 percentage points.
The poll was published Wednesday.
Is it a negative spinning of these results to highlight that 1 in 3 questioned actually supported cold-blooded murder?
What if 1 in 3 ‘settlers’ interviewed said that they agreed that it was OK to murder Palestinian children to liberate Judea and Samaria?
Would the Arab world spin this as 63% of settlers do not believe it is right to murder innocents, including children? Oh, Ok, those Jews aren’t that bad after all.
Or would they already be demonstrating on the streets of every capital in the Islamic world, in Europe, on US campuses?
Would they not be falling over themselves in the UN General Assembly to censure the Zionist entity for its bloodthirsty immorality?
Would not Ahmadinejad be orchestrating Jew-hatred on the streets of Teheran?
And of course, if it were the case that 63% of ‘settlers’ believed this, they’d be right, for a change, to so demonstrate and to condemn.
So what is it about Palestinians that renders them immune from such worldwide censure?
Where are the demos in Tel Aviv and Haifa?
Why aren’t the Jews of Europe on the march in Oslo and Rome?
Where is Ban Ki Moon? Or has he his dark side turned to the Palestinians whilst he bathes the Israelis in the bright lunacy which makes the English rendering of his name so apt?