On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 12:41 AM, Daniel Davies wrote:
>
> Wow, that's the most dishonest piece of reporting spin I've ever seen
> in my
> life.
i think it's even more dishonest than you suggest . . .
>
> You get the story:
>
>> JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A majority of Palestinians
>> believe the aim of their 20-month-old uprising should
>> be to eliminate Israel and not just end Israeli
>> occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip ( news -
>> web sites), an opinion poll released Tuesday showed.
a similar majority also saw "the intifada and negotiations together" as the "best way to achieve [palestinian] national goals." what would reuters do with that, i wonder.
>
> by asking the question:
>
>> Fifty-one percent of people surveyed said the end
>> result of the uprising should be "liberating all of
>> historic Palestine," referring to British-mandate
>> Palestine, part of which was recognized as Israel in
>> 1948.
>
look at the actual question: Q.7 In your opinion, what should be the end result of the current Intifada, is it improving the negotiation conditions for Palestinians, ending occupation based on UN Resolution 242 and the establishment of the Palestinian state or liberating all of historic Palestine?
> <snip>
>
> Come on, how many of us, before breakfast, would have worked out that
> "liberating all of historic Palestine" was code for driving the Jews
> into
> the sea?
especially if you looked at the previous poll, which includes a question not asked in the most recent (actual results distinguish west bank from gaza responses, but i'm just providing the total, here):
7. Some believe that a two-state formula is the favored solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict, while others believe that historic Palestine cannot be divided and thus the favored solution is a bi-national state on all of Palestine wherein Palestinians and Israelis enjoy equal representation and rights. Which of these solutions do you prefer?
1. Two state solution: an Israeli and a Palestinian 41.6
2. Bi-national state on all of historic Palestine
31.6
3.Palestinian state
0.2
4. Islamic state
3.4
5. Sovereign, Independent Palestinian with Jerusalem as it’s capital
5.7
6. Palestinian state on all of historic Palestine and return of refugees 12.5
7. There is no solution 0.1
8. I don't know 3.9
9. No answer 0.9
huh. even if you factor inhow much worse the recent offensives have made things (detailed in the current poll), you still have to recognize that many more palestinians are likely to understand "liberating historic palestine" as a binational state and not as driving the jews into the sea. isn't it also funny that right of return is only explicitly included in precisely the case (palestinian state on all of historic palestine) where it ought to go without saying . . . i wonder how that number might drop if you removed that phrase from that response. or added it, say, to response 2.
btw, all of jmcc's polls are available on their web site. here are links to the last two: http://www.jmcc.org/publicpoll/results/2002/no45.htm http://www.jmcc.org/publicpoll/results/2002/no44.htm
jeff
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