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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    Jan-25 1:43 pm  
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Sunday January 25, 2004 

JNW News
Poll: Americans say 'NO' to Palestinian state
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
January 25, 2004

Jerusalem (www.jnewswire.com) - A new poll published at the weekend revealed an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state on Israel's God-given homeland.

According to the survey, nearly 70 percent say the PA has failed to fulfill the conditions necessary to be given their own state. Almost the same number rejected the idea that the Jews would ever be forced to evacuate Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.

Special US envoy to the Middle East John Wolf seemed to concur with the general consensus regarding the PA's behavior, telling a recent gathering that the Palestinians are "all talk, no action."

Rejected at the polls

A survey sponsored by the Zionist Organization of America and carried out by McLaughlin & Associates over the past several weeks showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to the creation of a sovereign Palestinian Arab state on the lands given to the Jewish people by God.

When asked if the Palestinian Arabs had fulfilled the conditions for statehood set out for them by the international community, 67.4 percent of those polled said they absolutely had not.

Nor do most Americans believe they ever will. Sixty five percent of respondents agreed with the notion that the PA "cannot be trusted to fulfill peace agreements that it signs with Israel."

A majority of 55.7 percent believes the Palestinian still seek the total destruction of the Jewish state, and a full 73.6 percent feel Washington should stop sending $200 million each year to the PA.

Responding to the results, ZOA President Morton Klein said it is a "myth that American public opinion supports creating a Palestinian Arab state An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose creating what would be a new terrorist state."

It's the Jews' land

Participants in the survey were also asked whether or not they agree with the Arab demand that Judea, Samaria and Gaza be emptied of Jews as part of any final peace arrangement.

More than 66 percent of Americans rejected the idea that the Jews would ever be expelled from those lands.

Judea and Samaria form the core of the ancient biblical nation of Israel, and it was on these lands that the God of Israel made his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Palestinians are 'all talk'

In a speech last Thursday, US special envoy John Wolf, who is scheduled to return to the region this week, appeared to concur with the dominant feeling in his country that the Palestinians were to blame for the lack of Middle East peace.

He told a gathering of graduates from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs that, according to his experience, the Palestinian Authority was "all talk, no action."

"We tried to work with the Palestinians, we got the Israelis to give them some time, but on the Palestinian side, it was all talk, no action," he was cited by Ha'aretz as saying.

The PA had systematically failed to honor its numerous commitments to collect illegal weapons, shut down rocket and explosives factories operating under its nose, and arrest wanted men, Wolf explained.

'Israel also to blame'

Wolf also blamed Israel for the lack of progress, saying that while Jerusalem had fulfilled many of its obligations, it had failed to cease the demolition of terrorists' homes and freeze "settlement expansion."

Israelis argue that the demolition of terrorists' homes is a necessary deterrent to terror and a consequence of the PA's failure to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure.

Jerusalem has consistently rejected the demand that it completely freeze all settlement activity, noting that the Jewish communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are dynamic townships that experience natural growth.

[Ed note: To its shame, Israel long ago halted open efforts to entice Jews to move into these areas.]



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  From:  Lexxeny   Jan-28 9:17 am  
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That is so sad.
....To be godless is probably the first step to innocence. To lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to lost.


...the names of all the gods have been known in Egypt from the beginning of Time. Herodontus, The Histories

 
  
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   From:  David (DavidABrown)    Jan-28 11:47 am  
To:  Lexxeny   (3 of 3)  
 
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Hi,

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

I think the premise of the poll is that the Palestinian Terrorist bombings should not be allowed to equate into a voice and become a homeland in an already existing country.

 

It is wrong to allow terrorism to gain and to benefit.

 

True there are many problems over there but just as true is that there is enough additional space outside of Israel for a Palestinian homeland.

 

God Bless you,
David



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