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Related: About this forumPoll: 2/3 of Palestinians back stabbing attacks, armed uprising
Less than half of respondents in West Bank, Gaza survey support a two-state solution; 65% want Abbas to resign
http://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-23-of-palestinians-back-stabbing-attacks-armed-uprising/
Two-thirds of Palestinians support the current wave of stabbings against Israelis, with the same percentage backing a larger armed uprising, according to a Palestinian poll released Monday.
Sixty-seven percent back the use of knives, while 66% of those asked said an armed intifada or uprising would serve Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations could not, according the survey by the respected Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).
At the same time, nearly three-quarters said they opposed the involvement of young schoolgirls in stabbings.
Asked whether they backed continued attacks on soldiers, 79% said yes and 10% no.
msongs
(67,496 posts)isn't it 'odd?'
shira
(30,109 posts)...to support the murder of random kids and elderly people due to all the oppression Jews suffered?
razorman
(1,644 posts)for very long. If individual Israelis begin to respond to the stabbings in kind, there will not be very many Palestinians left. I hope this will all calm down before it reaches that point.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Do you think there is EVER an excuse or explanation for murder?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Glad that at least a third of Palestinians don't agree.
shira
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)What a weird alert.
sabbat hunter
(6,839 posts)to know who was the person that alerted a news article
King_David
(14,851 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)To wit: "this lind if racists garbage"
King_David
(14,851 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)"Inefficiency" comes to mind.
King_David
(14,851 posts)There should be sanctions for ridiculous alerts .
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Glad there were 4 reasonable people who know posting the results of a poll is hardly alert-worthy. Really - alerter should be completely embarrassed. Thanks for posting the results of the alert. Keep it up, Shira. Sometimes the truth hurts.
shira
(30,109 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)but given how many here only want one side of the story told, I'm surprised it wasn't hidden. It was a completely bullshit alert.
King_David
(14,851 posts)what a fucking ridiculous alert.
And a Chutzpah too coming from where it comes....
News flash to the alerter , homophobia and hate on Jews is bigotry.
Because everyone should see this pathetic, petty, small minded , right wing, ridiculous alert.
shira
(30,109 posts)There are other people treated far worse - Tibetans, Kurds, Yazidi, Sudanese - and yet they don't do the terror thing against random innocents. We don't see 2/3 supporting it either.
How do you explain that?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)In fact the Kurds have the overt military support of a world superpower in their fight against the people stepping on their necks. Imagine for a moment if Palestinians got the support that the Kurds get.
The Yazidi are a very tiny minority where they live, and would have been wiped out entirely if htey stood and fought. They ran. They are refugees, and like any refugee, they deserve to go home when they are able.
Which side of the (several) Sudanese civil wars do you support, and which do you think needs to lay down arms and take their massacres like good little sheep?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Mass slaughter of civilian Kurds in Syria ignites heavy clashes and mass exodus
The al-Qaeda linked Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front) in Syria, has been held responsible for having instigated a sectarian racist war against civilian Kurds in Syrias northern Kurdish region, the outcomes of which recently led to the massacre of hundreds of Kurdish women and children, some of whom were raped and beheaded by jihadists, says Syrian opposition officials, witnesses and victims.
Human rights activists in Syrias Kurdish region have confirmed that 450 Kurdish civilians, mostly women and children, were slaughtered indiscriminately inside their homes at the hands of jihadists of the al-Nusra Front in Tal Abyad, Tal Hassil and Tal Aran areas of Syrian Kurdistan from July 28 August 2, 2013.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/rozh-ahmad/mass-slaughter-of-civilian-kurds-in-syria-ignites-heavy-clashes-and-mass-exodus
The long wait for Tibetan freedom
On March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his government fled Tibet into exile, after a 12-day uprising against Chinese rule in Lhasa, Tibets capital. Last week some 150,000 Tibetans who live as exiles around the world commemorated the anniversary with rituals, ceremonies and prayers for their eventual return to their homeland. But there are no signs they will be returning home anytime soon.
A few days earlier, the Dalai Lama celebrated the Tibetan New Year with a small exile community in Minneapolis. The group is part of a growing Western-based diaspora of Tibetan exiles who are moving farther from India, where their community has been based since 1959. Some 20,000 Tibetans have relocated from South Asia to the United States and Europe since 1990. This year was the first time the Dalai Lama has spent the New Years festival in a Western country, and it may have been a signal designed to fluster Beijing with the prospect that he might one day move to North America, where he has formidable mobilizing power.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/tibet-exiles-chineseinlhasadalailamaaging.html
King_David
(14,851 posts)Thanks for rectifying it.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)And while I think it's difficult to draw any detailed conclusions from this poll, the general impression is that there are very few optimists, and the outlook is negative.
shira
(30,109 posts)....against Palestinian toddlers, infants, and the elderly?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)been posted a dozen times with plenty of recs. We all know this.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)Now you're posting links to right wing
israelnationalnews ?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)that pathetic alert isn't fooling anyone. It's not like that story is not posted right in the first 10 threads on I/P. But I'm sure Shira appreciates the kick for this one.