Majority of Palestinians Back Suicide Bombing

[Woodrow]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Seventy-five percent of Palestinians support the suicide bombing at an Israeli restaurant two weeks ago in which 21 people, including four children, were killed, a Palestinian survey showed Sunday.

The survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, which questioned 1,318 respondents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web sites), also showed that 85 percent of Palestinians support a "mutual cessation of violence by both sides."

The poll found considerable anti-American feeling among Palestinians. Just over 95 percent of respondents said the United States was "not sincere" when it says it seeks to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

In a question asking whether they supported or opposed the October 4 bombing in the northern city of Haifa, 75 percent said they either supported the attack or strongly supported it.

Seventeen percent of respondents said they opposed the bombing and 4.4 percent said they strongly opposed the attack.

Ayoub Mustafa, one of the pollsters, told Reuters the number may have been artificially high because respondents were not told in the question that all the 21 dead were civilians.

He said 55 percent of respondents said they supported "armed attacks" in Israel and this number might be more reflective of Palestinian support for the Haifa attack as it was the first time they had surveyed support for specific bombings.

The Haifa bombing was carried out by a woman who said she was avenging Israel's killing of her brother, an Islamic Jihad militant who the army said was planning a car-bomb attack.

Just over 89 percent of Palestinians surveyed backed attacks against Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, land occupied by Israel which Palestinians want for a state. A similar number supported attacks against Israeli soldiers.

On the political front, President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s popularity rose to its highest level in five years with 50 percent of Palestinians saying they would vote for him again if there were elections, up from 35 percent last year, the poll showed. About 80 percent of respondents attributed Arafat's rise in popularity to Israel's plans to expel him from the Palestinian territories.

Almost 97 percent said the United States, Israel's main ally, was biased in favor of the Jewish state.

The United States drew up a peace "road map" with the United Nations (news - web sites), the European Union (news - web sites) and Russia this year which set out reciprocal steps for ending violence and establishing a Palestinian state in 2005. Progress on the road map has stalled.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&u=/nm/20031019/wl_nm/mideast_palestinians_poll_dc_1&printer=1

This makes me sick. Let the Isreal bashing commence and this get completely ignored.

[UnstoppableForce]

Majority of Palestinians Back Suicide Bombing

And many people here back the bombing of third world countries and the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, so what's your point?

[Trauma-san]

This just shows that most palestinians are devils.  We should rid the world of them, maybe we could capture them one at a time, ask them if they support suicide bombings, then kill them if they say yes.  We could do it in big camps, too, to save money & Time.

[UnstoppableForce]

Too bad that instead of that happeneing, US soldiers are comitting suicide there cuz they can't handle this shit. Bush lied to them too; just the same way he lies about everything else

[Trauma-san]

GOD BLESS GEORGE BUSH!!!!

[UnstoppableForce]

GOD BLESS BIN LADEN FOR SETTING UP THE MOST CREATIVE, WELL THOUGHT-OUT ATTACK IN HISTORY! WHAT AN INTELLIGENT MAN! I BET YOU BUSH WANTS HIM TO REPLACE COLIN POWELL.

[Trauma-san]

^^ Finally, he speaks his heart.  Fuck you, die slow.  

[Woodrow]

GOD BLESS BIN LADEN FOR SETTING UP THE MOST CREATIVE, WELL THOUGHT-OUT ATTACK IN HISTORY! WHAT AN INTELLIGENT MAN! I BET YOU BUSH WANTS HIM TO REPLACE COLIN POWELL.

Lol, Most "Creative, well thought-out attack in history"?

The ignorance just keeps coming.

[UnstoppableForce]

 

[King Tech Quadafi]

On a serious note, there is absolutely nothing wrong with these sentiments. Now, look at for example, Trauma and Englewood here.  THey live in a nice subarb in middle America. THey have no idea what it is like to live under occupation, to have your entire history re written, to be subjected to checkpoints, unlawful seizures, arrest, torture. They have never lived under the threat of death, they have never been forced to evacuate their home because it is being bulldozed. They havent seen their families massacred by armies. Yet, they will denounce Palestinians for having irrational feelings of hate. Please explain this to me?