ISRAELI JEWS OPPOSE PALESTINIAN STATE ON 67 BORDERS: POLL

Tel Aviv, 27 Dhulhijjah 1435/21 October 2014 (MINA) – Three of every four Israeli Jews oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, a new survey showed.

Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the poll conducted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs from October 12-14 and asked 505 Israeli Jews about the Palestinian-Israeli peace process showed that 74.3 percent are against the establishment of a Palestinian on the 1967 borders, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

That number increases to 74.9 percent if the creation of a Palestinian state would require Israel’s withdrawal from the Jordan Valley, and even goes up to 76.2 percent against the notion if it meant Jerusalem would be divided.

Around 75 percent of respondents also opposed replacing Israeli forces with international ones in the Jordan Valley as proposed by the U.S. administration.

Among the respondents, 304 identified as right-wing, 125 as centrist and 68 as left-wing, Haaretz said.
The roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict date back to 1917, when the British government, in the now-famous “Balfour Declaration,” called for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the holy city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state – a move never recognized by the international community.

Palestinians, for their part, continue to demand the establishment of an independent state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, with East Jerusalem currently occupied by Israel as its capital. (T/P002/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)