This is something different than what it used to be and it's something that has received very little attention in the national media. I just saw the poll on MSNBC. On Dan Abrams show he displayed that in 2000 73% of the population supported it, and now it's down to about 32%. It's pretty amazing. Less than half of Palestinians support Suicide bombings.
This is very, very interesting. Do you have a link. The statistic is hard to believe, so I'm curious how the poll was taken.
I thought of that. I was trying to find a link as well. I checked the MSNBC website under the Dan Abrams show, but they didn't have any links, and since I didn't hear the whole name of the group that did the poll I wasn't sure how to research it via the net. I will try and watch the rebroadcast of the show and find out the name of the group that conducted the poll. But I may not be near a TV when the show comes on again.
This is probably the poll: <a HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1144380,00.html">Israeli legal challenge to barrier</a> <i>.......Meanwhile, a new poll found that Palestinian support for violence and suicide bombings against Israel has dropped sharply during more than three years of fighting. Only 35% of respondents support continuing the violence, down from 43% in November and 73% in November 2000. The Palestinian Centre for Public Opinion poll surveyed 500 Palestinian adults and had a margin of error of four percentage points........</i>
Maybe all they need after all is a real leader and not some self-serving butcher. Maybe there is hope after all.
Ah, lowered expectations. Could you imagine the response if 32% of Americans supported suicide bombings against Mexico.
Over 2/3 of Americans supported the invasion of Iraq under the belief of at least one of the following three misconceptions: * That Saddam had been proven to be behind 9-11. * That Saddam had used WMDs against the US. * That the majority of the planet supported the war.
Targeting civilians is exactly the same thing as invading using the most advanced weapons that are specifically designed to reduce civilian casualties, at least partially for the purpose of removing a dictator from power that has spent decades murdering those same civilians through torture, chemical attacks and starvation.
Cool...so do I...your point? Did I suggest I tell you what I think, or did I ask you if you were asking me what I thought you think? There is a difference which your response seems to fail to discern.
What you think you think. I am sure you can come up with a multitude of differneces between the two acts of aggression, but I have never seen anyone compare the Iraq war to the Palestinian resistance, so I was interested.
