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60% of “Palestinians” support jihad attacks against Israeli civilians

Apr 11, 2016 10:58 am By Robert Spencer

Polls always reveal the “tiny minority of extremists” to be much larger than most Westerners assume.

Palestinian jihadi

“Poll: 60% of Palestinians Support ‘Armed Attacks Against Israeli Civilians Inside Israel'” The Tower, April 10, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza approve of attacks against Israeli civilians and believe that an armed intifada would help them on the path to statehood, a recent poll has found.

The survey, carried out by the the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and published on April 4, found that 60 percent of Palestinians support “armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel,” while 65 percent think that escalating the current wave of violence into an armed intifada would help Palestinian national aspirations in a way that negotiations could not. A plurality also believes that armed action is the most effective way to establish a Palestinian state.

Efforts by Palestinian Authority security services to contain violence, which a PA official quoted by the survey said prevented 200 attacks against Israelis, were opposed by 65 percent of Palestinians and supported by 30 percent.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas remains deeply unpopular with his constituents, with about two-thirds of respondents demanding his resignation. If new elections took place in the West Bank and Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh – the leader of the terrorist group Hamas – would beat Abbas by 11 percentage points. However, if the competition was between Haniyeh and Mahmoud Barghouti – a convicted killer who is currently serving 67 life sentences in an Israeli prison for helping orchestrate some of the bloodiest suicide bombings of the second intifada – the latter would win by 18 percentage points.

Palestinians last held presidential elections in 2005. Abbas is currently on the 11th year of his four-year term.

A majority of Palestinians — 52 percent — also believe that Israel is planning to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, which are located on the Temple Mount, and build a synagogue in their place.

Palestinian incitement, including claims that Israel seek to destroy al-Aqsa, have fueled the wave of terror that has killed 34 Israelis and injured over 400 more since last September. Though the Israeli government routinely rejects the charge, and non-Muslim presence and activity on the Temple Mount remains highly restricted, Palestinian leaders often declare that al-Aqsa is in danger, an accusation that predates the founding of Israel….

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Filed Under: "Tiny Minority of Extremists", Featured, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian jihad Tagged With: Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research


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  1. RichardL says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 11:03 am

    the other 40% misunderstood the question, I am sure.

    • ploome says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      meanwhile 65 % of Europeans Support armed attacks agains Jews…..any Jews

  2. kessler says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 11:08 am

    Just give them their own state and “right to return” and they will lay down their weapons and embrace the Jews as equals. Honestly.

    • Lookmann says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 11:32 am

      Seriously .Their ‘own state’ gives them legitimacy to buy all arms and “right to return” gives them new recruits.

      With these, they will fall on Israel to realise their dream of ‘ river to sea’ .[a Palestine from Jordan river to
      Mediterranean Sea ] only to be brutally beaten back by the Israelis.

      Peaceful co-existence is not taught to any Muslim.

  3. linnte says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 11:27 am

    Jus watched an interesting video on what Muslim leaders say about the current cease fire in Syria and how Jihad is the “normal” state of existence for Muslims. HTTPS:// youtu.be/H6Viwnr59YA hope this link works!

  4. linnte says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 11:36 am

    https://YouTube.be/H6Viwnr59YA there, this should work.

    • hi says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 12:57 pm

      “Error” when I tried your link.

      • linnte says

        Apr 11, 2016 at 5:48 pm

        I know, and I don’t know what I did wrong! It works for me when I type it into the Google search though. I sent it to Robert Spencer. Maybe he will post a usable link? Hope so, because this video is very informative, exposing the mind set of the Umma!

  5. underbed cat says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 11:40 am

    Funny how political news about U.S. primaries and underestimating the number of jihadist, work together…makes clear “superpacs” and delegate counts….so do jihadist have delegates? Is that why the truth is so hateful? And they try so hard to shut down the front runner…who knows something is wrong and gets voters what we thought was democracy, but it really is delegate-cracy.

  6. Angemon says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 11:46 am

    A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza approve of attacks against Israeli civilians and believe that an armed intifada would help them on the path to statehood, a recent poll has found.

    What “path to statehood”? They’ve been given land and a state of their own – not bad for the descendants of rapine marauders. Their problem is that the Jews have a state of their own, and it’s much better than their crummy “Pigsty-ne “, or whatever it’s called. That’s because Jews have worked hard to make their state great. Of course, “Palestinians”, being muslims, can’t stand them Jews succeeding. Well, they can’t stand Jews, period. Ergo, the Jews gotta go.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 1:04 pm

      Before the Jews came to make the desert bloom, the Ottoman sanjaks of Sidon, Acre, Safad, Nablus, Jerusalem, and Gaza resembled the cratered surface of the moon without a single tree.

      Ottoman Syria had no region called ‘Palestine’ within it.

      ‘Palestinian’ as a nationality was invented in 1967 by a thinktank in Moscow.

      “Palestine and Jordan are one…” said King Abdullah of Transjordan in 1948.

      “The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan,” said King Hussein of Jordan, in 1981.

      • ploome says

        Apr 11, 2016 at 2:59 pm

        http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/israel_and_the_occupation_that_isnt.html

        Israel and the Occupation that Isn’t

  7. underbed cat says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 1:09 pm

    State hood is path to caliphatehood. You should know that it is not about just Israel….they have Mo directives to spread to all areas, by terror or jihad. That is researched, documented by experts. If truth be known….until then we are facing immense danger to the mind and body.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    60% of “Palestinians” support jihad attacks against Israeli civilians
    ……………………..

    No surprise there, given Islam’s genocidal hatred of Jews.

  9. gravenimage says

    Apr 12, 2016 at 12:26 am

    A majority of Palestinians — 52 percent — also believe that Israel is planning to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, which are located on the Temple Mount, and build a synagogue in their place.
    ………………………

    Projection. Israel has had over sixty years to do so, and she never has–nor do any Israelis advocate doing so.

    But there is projection on the part of self-hating Jews, as well.

    I had hesitated to read Michael Chabon’s book “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”, because the premise was so silly–that Sitka in Alaska had been some sort of special Jewish refuge for the past half century or so.

    Of course, the part which wasn’t so silly was the idea that Muslims had destroyed Israel early on, and massacred the Jews there.

    But I started reading the story eventually and found some of it charming and compelling–the main character is a world-weary homicide detective still desperately in love with his ex-wife, who is a colleague. Then there was the Alaska-specific stuff, which was wonky but funny.

    But then–Spoiler alert!–I got to the main plot point.

    Fundamentalist Jews–in league with American Fundamentalist Christians, who appear to be in power in the US–conspire to blow up the Dome of the Rock and rebuild the Temple.

    Never mind that Sunnis and Shia are still slaughtering each other in the Levant–the “real” terrorists are…Americans and Jews.

    Michael Chabon lives not far from me in Berkeley; I sometimes see him and his wife, a fellow writer, and kids at breakfast or out for coffee. Some might consider this a rather charmed life, but that did not stop him from depicting the US as full of antisemites and violent, crazed fundamentalist Christians.

    Very depressing–not to mention complete bs.

    • linnte says

      Apr 12, 2016 at 12:50 am

      Oh wow! You live in my favorite area of the map! I would live there but am earthquakeophobic! Hahahaha! Serious though SF and Berkeley are wonderful magical places.

  10. KafirInfidel says

    Apr 12, 2016 at 4:02 am

    In December 2014 the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research asked a sample of 1,270 Palestinian Arab adults in the territories what they thought of the recent wave of attacks in which Palestinians stabbed Israelis or ran them over with their cars. Fully 80% responded that they support such attacks. See http://www.mypracticalphilosophy.com/jihadpages/howmoderate.htm

  11. sham says

    Apr 12, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    THE RELIGION OF PEACE (UTTER NONSENSE SITE ),HOW CAN THESE ZOMBIES ARE AUTHENTIC?

    KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE PROHIBITED /ETERNAL HELL FOR THEM

    17: 33. And do not kill anyone which Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause. And whoever is killed (intentionally with hostility and oppression and not by mistake), We have given his heir the authority [(to demand Qisâs, Law of Equality in punishment or to forgive, or to take Diya (blood money)]. But let him not exceed limits in the matter of taking life (i.e he should not kill except the killer only). Verily, he is helped (by the Islamic law).
    25: 68. And those who invoke not any other ilâh (god) along with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.
    49: 6. O you who believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with news, verify it, lest you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you have done.
    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 89 :: Hadith 320
    Not to join anything in worship along with Allah, (2) Not to steal, (3) Not to commit illegal sexual intercourse, (4) Not to kill your children, (5) Not to accuse an innocent person (to spread such an accusation among people), (6) Not to be disobedient (when ordered) to do good deeds.
    Bukhari :: Book 5 :: Volume 58 :: Hadith 233
    Narrated ‘Ubada bin As Samit:
    I was one of the Naqibs who gave the (‘Aqaba) Pledge of Allegiance to Allah’s Apostle . We gave the pledge of allegiance to him that we would not worship anything other than Allah, would not steal, would not commit illegal sexual intercourse, would not kill a person whose killing Allah has made illegal except rightfully, would not rob each other, and we would not be promised Paradise if we did the above sins, then if we committed one of the above sins, Allah will give His Judgment concerning it.
    Muslim :: Book 7 : Hadith 3142
    Abu Huraira, (Allah be pleased with him) reported. When Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, granted Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) victory over Mecca, he stood before people and praised and extolled Allah and then said:…………it (this territory) was not violable to anyone before me and it was made violable to me for an hour of a day, and it shall not be violable to anyone after me. So neither molest the game, nor weed out thorns from it. And it is not lawful for anyone to pick up a thing dropped but one who makes public announcement of it. And it a relative of anyone is killed he is entitled to opt for one of two things. Either he should be paid blood-money or he can take life as (a just retribution).
    Muslim :: Book 17 : Hadith 4238
    Ubida b. as-Samit repnrted: I was one of those headmen who swore allegiance to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) that we will not associate anything with Allah, and will not commit adultery, and will not steal, and will not kill any soul which Allah has forbidden, but with justice nor plunder, nor disobey (Allah and His Apostle), then Paradise (will be the reward) in case we do these (acts) ; and if we commit any outrage(bad, violence) (and that goes unpunished in the world), it is Allah Who would decide about it. Ibn Rumh said: Its judgment lies with Allah.
    Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 161
    It is reported on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed: Avoid the seven noxious things. It was said (by the hearers): What are they, Messenger of Allah? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Associating anything with Allah, magic, killing of one whom God has declared inviolate without a just cause, consuming the property of an orphan, and consuming of usury(intrest), turning back when the army advances(cowardness), and slandering(lie) chaste women who are believers, but unwary.
    Bukhari :: Book 6 :: Volume 60 :: Hadith 134
    …………… “I do not know that killing a person is lawful in Islam except in three cases: a married person committing illegal sexual intercourse, >>>one who has murdered somebody unlawfully<<<>>>>>A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) <<<<<<<<(2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle, and deserted Islam and became an apostate."
    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 83 :: Hadith 6
    Narrated 'Abdullah:
    The Prophet said, "No human being is killed unjustly, but a part of responsibility for the crime is laid on the first son of Adam who invented the tradition of killing (murdering) on the earth. (It is said that he was Qabil).
    Muslim :: Book 16 : Hadith 4156
    'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) having said: No person who is killed unjustly, but the share of (this offence of his also) falls upon the first son of Adam, for he was the first to introduce killing.
    Dawud :: Book 39 : Hadith 4487
    ……..I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: It is not lawful to kill a man who is a Muslim except for one of the three reasons: Kufr (disbelief) after accepting Islam, fornication after marriage, or wrongfully killing someone, for which he may be killed. ……………………
    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 83 :: Hadith 21
    Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
    The Prophet said, "The most hated persons to Allah are three: (1) A person who deviates from the right conduct, i.e., an evil doer, in the Haram (sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina); (2) a person who seeks that the traditions of the Pre-lslamic Period of Ignorance, should remain in Islam (3) and a person who seeks to shed somebody's blood without any right."
    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 83 :: Hadith 3
    Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
    One of the evil deeds with bad consequence from which there is no escape for the one who is involved in it is to kill someone unlawfully.
    Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 78 :: Hadith 667
    Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr:
    The Prophet said, "The biggest sins are: To join others in worship with Allah; to be undutiful to one's parents; to kill somebody unlawfully; and to take an oath Al-Ghamus.

    • linnte says

      Apr 12, 2016 at 1:45 pm

      Sham, you are guilty of changing the words of Holy Qur’an and Hadith! Shame on you!

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