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More Israelis, Palestinians willing to compromise: Poll
Thursday December 29, 2011 09:54:09 AM,
IANS
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Jerusalem: A growing
number of Israelis and Palestinians are inclined to accept
compromises that would enable their governments to reach a peace
agreement, a survey has said.
The poll indicates that 58 percent of Israelis and 50 percent of
Palestinians support a final-status peace settlement along
parameters outlined by former US president Bill Clinton in
December 2000. Thirty-nine percent and 49 percent, respectively,
oppose such a settlement.
The study was jointly conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research
Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University
and the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research in
Ramallah, Xinhua reported.
The Clinton parameters, which were followed by the Geneva
Initiative in 2003, address the core issues that underlie the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The final borders of a future Palestinian state and mutual land
swaps; refugees; security arrangements; the status of Jerusalem; a
demilitarized Palestinian state; and an end to Palestinian claims.
In a similar poll conducted in December last year, 52 percent of
Israeli and 40 percent of Palestinian respondents voiced support
for Clinton's so-called "permanent status package."
On the issue of the final borders of a future Palestinian state,
for instance, 63 percent of Palestinian respondents in the latest
survey supported an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza
Strip with miniscule land swaps.
While 51 percent of Israeli respondents were in favour of
establishing a Palestinian state in the entirety of these areas
except for several large settlement blocs in three percent of the
West Bank which will be annexed to Israel.
Despite the willingness to compromise, the poll found that
two-thirds of respondents on both sides do not believe it is
possible to reach a final-status settlement in the current
political climate, and view the chances for the establishment of a
Palestinian state in the near future as slim.
The survey also examined attitudes regarding a potential Israeli
military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, with 47 percent of
Israel's Jewish public saying they would support an attack and 41
percent opposed to it.
An overwhelming majority of Israeli respondents - 76 percent -
believe that if Israel were to attack Iran, Palestinian militants
in Gaza would retaliate with rocket barrages against Israel, while
48 percent of Palestinian respondents thought that Israel will
eventually carry out a strike.
The survey's results are based on telephone interviews with 605
Israeli Jewish adults and face-to-face interviews with 1,270
Palestinian adults in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem from
Dec 11 to 17.
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