Statistics Speak
for Themselves
Jerusalem Media & Communications Center, run by Ghassan Khatib
(of the PA) as published in Ha'aretz, June 27) and the Canadian
Jewish News (July 5, 2001)
Support for the intifada
79% of
Palestinians support the intifadah
Almost
69% support homicide bombings against Israelis (26% in March 1999)
Goals of the intifada
45.6%
said intifada is about ending "Israeli occupation" and establishing a
Palestinian state based on UN Security Council Resolution 242.
41.2%
said the goal of the intifada's goal was the "total liberation of
Palestinian land" - meaning Israel's destruction.
9.2%
consider the uprising aim to be a tactic for improving negotiation
conditions
Settlements
67.1%
rejected ending the uprising in return for "ending Jewish settlement"
25.1%
approved
