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Hayom poll: 80% of Jewish Israelis skeptical on peace talks
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Vast majority of Israeli Jews say peace talks are unlikely to culminate
in lasting deal • 77.5% disapprove of this week's prisoner release and almost
two-thirds would have preferred a settlement freeze instead • Abbas: All core
issues discussed.
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Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
U.N. chief
Ban Ki-moon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on
Thursday
A new Israel Hayom poll shows that the vast majority of Israeli Jews
believe the newly launched talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority
are a futile endeavor.
The poll was conducted by New Wave Research on Aug. 14 from a
representative and random sample of 500 Hebrew-speaking Jews, aged 18 and up. It
had a 4.4 percent margin of error.
Some 79.7% of respondents said the talks would not end with a permanent
peace accord that would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Just 6.2% said
such an agreement would be reached, and 14.1% said they had no opinion.
In a similar poll in July, 73.1% said negotiations would not lead to a
peace agreement, while only 5.3% said the talks would conclude with a deal, and
21.6% had no opinion.
On the question of whether Israel should have agreed to release prisoners
as a goodwill gesture alongside the talks, 77.5% said they opposed the move,
while 14.2% said they supported the gesture and 8.3% had no opinion.
The poll was conducted a day after Israel released 26 prisoners as part
of its phased release of 104 prisoners.
In a similar poll held in July, almost 85% of respondents said they
opposed the release of terrorists who had committed deadly attacks, as a means
of facilitating peace talks. Some 9.4% said they would support such a move and
5.7% had no opinion. The same survey found that 78.1% of participants believed
that such terrorists should not be released even after talks resumed and even if
such a move was contingent on progress in the peace process. Some 13.7%
supported their release, with 8.2% having no opinion.
2.
Nomination for Darwin Award:
Ian
Feinberg came to Israel from South Africa when he was 18 and worked tirelessly
for the advancement of the Palestinian people • In 1993 he was murdered by
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza • This week, one of his killers was freed as a
gesture.
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4. Great Developments on Campus:
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