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Analysis of an AWRAD Opinion Poll
Publication Date: 28 August 2010
Fieldwork: 8-14 August 2010
Sample Size: 3,001 Palestinians in the West Bank & Gaza
Margin of error: ±1.5 %
Highlights:
- 65 percent of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza support direct negotiations based on a settlements freeze and international guarantees; only 8 percent support unconditional direct negotiations.
- Palestinians blame American (inaction), Israeli (lack of recognition of Palestinian rights) and Palestinian (internal division) for lack of progress in the peace process.
- 62 percent support, accept or tolerate a two-state solution.
- 88 percent strongly believe that Palestinian refugees have the right to (return and compensation), but 64 percent could accept a solution where refugees return to the Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
- 66 percent are willing to accept or tolerate an equivalent swap of land as part of a broader agreement.
- Palestinians are equally split over the division of Jerusalem into East and West, based on the 1967 boarders.
- 95 percent consider a comprehensive peace agreement, if implemented, as the end of the conflict.
- 56 percent believe that exclusively peaceful means are the best way to end the occupation.
- 58 percent believe that Palestinians and Israelis have a chance to coexist and live side by side.