Majority of Palestinians Oppose Two State Solution, Poll Shows

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Saturday June 28, 2014 · 2:45 PM PDT

2014/06/28 · 14:45

According to a very recent poll by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza now oppose a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Put more simply, they oppose Israel's existence, while demanding a state of their own.

Commissioned by The Washington Institute and conducted by a leading Palestinian pollster, the poll comprised face-to-face interviews with a standard random geographic probability sample of 1,200 adult Palestinians, yielding results with a 3% statistical margin of error. The responses indicate that fewer than 30% of Palestinians now support a "two-state solution": a West Bank/Gaza Palestinian state in lasting peace with Israel.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/...

The poll showed that 55% of Palestinians in the West Bank and 68% of Palestinians in the Gaza strip agreed that "the five-year goal 'should be to work toward reclaiming all of historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.'" Only 31% of West Bank respondents and 22% of Gazan respondents agreed that the goal should be a two-state solution.

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Wednesday June 25, 2014 · 6:45 AM PDT

2014/06/25 · 06:45

Well, that didn't take long.

One of the Palestinian terrorists who was freed in 2011 in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, an IDF soldier who had been held captive for years by Hamas, has been arrested for the murder of an Israeli who was on his way to a Passover seder.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Ziad Awad and "his 18-year-old son, Izzedin Hassan Ziad Awad, were arrested May 7 for the April 14 slaying of the police commander, Baruch Mizrahi..."

The authorities said that the younger Mr. Awad had produced the murder weapon, an AK-47 stained with his father’s DNA, and told interrogators that his father said his motive was religious because Islam promised paradise to anyone who kills a Jew.
Mr. Mizrahi’s wife, Hadas, who was pregnant and wounded in the shooting, said Monday that his death shows the danger of releasing prisoners, an increasingly contentious issue in Israel, and called for Israel to institute the death penalty.

So there we have it. A convicted terrorist is released (and praised as a hero by Palestinians, see link to video below), and in short order, murders someone. But he doesn't just murder; he also tried to murder a pregnant woman, so I guess you call that an "attempted twofer." And he did it because the intended victims were Jewish, making him a bigot.

Here's the video of the two-time murderer Awad getting his "hero's parade" --

http://www.jewishpress.com/...

If anyone wonders why Israel was reluctant to release another 100 or so of these terrorists just in the hopes of keeping negotiations going, even though the Palestinian Authority had no interest in negotiating in good faith, this is your reason why.

Will the Presbyterian Church Embrace Bigotry?

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Wednesday June 18, 2014 · 1:07 PM PDT

2014/06/18 · 13:07

If the Cliven Bundy affair tells us anything, it is that bigots usually reveal themselves as such sooner or later. As the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) prepares to vote on divestment from Israel, one of the major divestment proponents has decided to follow Bundy’s example. I speak of Reverend Larry Grimm, of the Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church in Denver, Colorado, and the former chair of the Justice Commission of the Colorado Council of Churches.

In a Facebook posting a few days ago, Grimm wrote this heartfelt invitation to Israeli Jews:

America is the Promised Land. We all know this. Come to the land of opportunity. Quit feeling guilt about what you are doing in Palestine, Jewish friends. Stop it. Come home to America!

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Anti-Semitism Is Rampant in the Middle East and North Africa

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Wednesday May 14, 2014 · 12:18 PM PDT

2014/05/14 · 12:18

The New York Times certainly got my attention with this headline: “26 Percent of World’s Adults Are Anti-Semitic, Survey Finds.”

http://www.nytimes.com/...

http://global100.adl.org

The survey in question was a global survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, and designed to probe the level and intensity of anti-semitism. The survey also found that half the respondents had never heard of the Holocaust. Now, that finding doesn’t necessarily mean the people are anti-semitic. It could to some extent just indicate ignorance. I’d consider it more anti-semitic if someone had indeed heard of the Holocaust, but denied that it actually happened or tried to argue that it was overblown.

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