In the course of surfing around and looking at the state of things in the Arab world – part of my effort to try and assess what the impacts of Iraq and the recent changes in the Middle East might be – I found this recent poll<\/a>, taken in June by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research<\/a>.
\n5) From among the following factors, which one is the most important in determing your vote for one list against another?<\/p>\n
| 1) the political party or faction it belongs to<\/td>\n | 8.9<\/td>\n | 8.7<\/td>\n | 9.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2) The ability of the list to reach a peace agreement with Israel<\/td>\n | 17.2<\/td>\n | 16.5<\/td>\n | 18.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3) The ability of the list to insure the continuation of the intifada<\/td>\n | 3.0<\/td>\n | 2.7<\/td>\n | 3.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4) The ability of the list to improve economic conditions<\/td>\n | 15.6<\/td>\n | 14.7<\/td>\n | 16.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5) The ability of the list to fight corruption and implement reform measures<\/td>\n | 24.3<\/td>\n | 24.2<\/td>\n | 24.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6) The ability of the list to enforce law and order<\/td>\n | 8.2<\/td>\n | 8.7<\/td>\n | 7.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 7) The ability of the list to protect national unity<\/td>\n | 11.6<\/td>\n | 12.4<\/td>\n | 10.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 8) The ability of the list to protect refugee rights in negotiations<\/td>\n | 9.5<\/td>\n | 10.5<\/td>\n | 8.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 9) DK\/NA<\/td>\n | 1.6<\/td>\n | 1.5<\/td>\n | 1.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| <\/td>\n | Total%<\/td>\n | West Bank%<\/td>\n | Gaza Strip%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n Note that reaching a peace agreement was the most important for 17.2%, improving economic conditions was most important for 15.6 percent, fighting corruption was most important for 24.3 percent, and ensuring the continuation of the intifada was most important for 3.0 percent.<\/p>\n I’ve argued for a while that the bulk of the Palestinian people – like the bulk of people anywhere want the same thing – a future for their children, a safe home, and the chance to build a better life for themselves.<\/p>\n I’ll suggest that this poll supports that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the course of surfing around and looking at the state of things in the Arab world – part of my effort to try and assess what the impacts of Iraq and the recent changes in the Middle East might be – I found this recent poll, taken in June by the Palestinian Center for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |