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English Report English Results
Publication Date: 2 February 2011
Fieldwork: 19-20 January 2011
Sample size: 1200 Palestinians (West Bank and Gaza)
Margin of error: ±3%
Highlights:
- 74 percent positively view the latest events in Tunisia.
- 41 percent predict that Egypt will be the next Arab country in line for change.
- The majority of Palestinian respondents believe that negotiations should resume only after a full freeze of settlement construction.
- 71 percents support non-violent means to end the Occupation.
- 73 percent believe that the PA should directly petition the UN Security Council to declare a Palestinian state.
- 83 percent support a move by the PA to petition the Security Council for a resolution freezing settlement construction.
- 59 percent did not think that the outcome of the American mid-term Congressional elections would affect the peace process.
- 63 percent of the respondents believe that Palestinian society is heading in the wrong direction.
- There is no significant shift in the Palestinian attitudes toward the performance of the West Bank and Gaza governments since the October 2010 poll.
- The vast majority of Palestinians (79 percent) support the conduct of municipal, legislative and presidential elections as soon as possible.
- The overwhelming majority (71 percent) of respondents believe reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas are the best means to end the domestic political division.
- In hypothetical parliamentary elections, Fatah (35 percent) is the most popular of electoral lists, followed by Hamas (14 percent). However, 34 percent of voters are undecided or seeking other options