84% of Palestinians support murdering innocent Israeli teens
A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the attack this month on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem that killed eight young men, most of them teenagers, an indication of the alarming level of Israeli-Palestinian tension in recent weeks.
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[The] Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, which conducts a survey every three months, is widely viewed as among the few independent and reliable gauges of Palestinian public opinion.
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According to the poll, conducted last week with 1,270 Palestinians in face-to-face interviews, 84 percent supported the March 6 attack on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, one of Israel’s most prominent centers of religious Zionism and ideological wellspring of the settler movement in the West Bank.
The New York Times waited until the eigth paragraph to mention the percentage of 84%, choosing to simply refer to an “overwhelming majority” that supports these kinds of massacres.
How in the world can we even pretend to be serious about bringing peace to the Middle East? These people are animals.
March 19, 2008 at 8:03 am
[...] side of the Root River Divide (side note; I miss Ed Zeppelin). - From the Religion of Pieces file, Wolking’s World finds 84% of Palestinians support the deadly attack on a Jerusalem seminary earlier this month. - [...]