'This is the highest level of support for armed struggle we have seen since the Second Intifada,' a veteran Palestinian pollster has warned
'This is the highest level of support for armed struggle we have seen since the Second Intifada,' a veteran Palestinian pollster has warned
Professor Khalil Shikaki, a veteran West Bank pollster and director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research Last week the Israeli government advanced plans for more than 3,400 new homes in settlements in the West Bank. The settlements are deemed illegal under international law. Palestinians’ animosity towards Israel is being further inflamed by the scenes of devastation emerging from Gaza, where reports suggest over 30,000, or 1.5 per cent of the population have been killed in the past four months, and the spectre of famine now looms.
But Professor Shikaki’s research, underlines, too, how the popularity of the Palestinian Authority’s leadership has also plummeted, amid claims of corruption, incompetence and collusion with Israel. Abbas has been in power for almost two decades, and refuses to hold fresh elections. The evidence suggests that 92 per cent of West Bankers want him to quit. “If elections were held today, Abbas would not have any chance of winning,” Professor Shikaki says.
He says that, at best, only 15 per cent of Palestinians are reporting for work in PA ministries in Ramallah, the West Bank capital “We have been trying to pay our taxes for the PA for the last four months. But it’s been totally unsuccessful every time because of the roadblocks … What the army is doing is basically creating economic conditions that are very suitable to explosion.”
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