The Associated Press has a long history of misreporting on the Middle East in order to make the Palestinians look good and Israel to look bad. Sometimes it omits key facts, such as how the IDF civilian-to-combatant ratio in the Gaza war compares to the ratios obtained by the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, or it fails to report blood-curdling remarks by Palestinian leaders, or leaves out inconvenient truths about the multibillion dollar fortunes of Hamas leaders living in Doha, or ignores altogether the stories of Israeli doctors saving the lives of Hamas terrorists, or other stories that you are unlikely to have ever heard about, because they make the Palestinians look bad and the Israelis look good. And that, of course, would never do.
Elder of Ziyon reports on the latest AP omission here: “Over 2/3 of Palestinians want to see a return to terror attacks against Jews. AP doesn’t report that part of the survey,” Elder of Ziyon, December 14, 2023:
I reported on a new PCPSR survey yesterday showing that Hamas’ popularity has surged since October 7.
While I report on these polls often, major news media almost always ignore them. This time, though, AP highlighted the part about how Hamas is now far more popular than Fatah, especially on the West Bank, and how Palestinians do not want Abbas as their leader.
That is indeed an important story. But AP continues to ignore one critical question that is in every poll, that is even more important.
69% of the respondents say they support “a return to confrontations and armed intifada.”
This key fact was left out of the AP reporting. You would not know how from the AP how many Palestinians now support terrorism and a return to the intifada, nor that it represented a major increase since October 7 in the numbers of such supporters, who have been not embarrassed by, but positively enthused about, the atrocities that the civilized world condemns.
By a greater than 2-1 ratio, Palestinians want to go back to the days of suicide bombings and blowing up buses filled with Jews.
Media and politicians love to talk a lot about ceasefires, and the importance of peace, and the desirability of a two-state solution. But this single fact means that none of that matters.
More than half of Palestinians have been supporting a return to terrorism for a while now. Hamas’ pogrom increased that desire by 11 percentage points….
58% of Palestinians have long supported a return to terrorism. Far from diminishing that enthusiasm, the Hamas atrocities on October 7 increased the number who support such terrorism, and indeed, support for Hamas itself, to 69%.
72% of Palestinian respondents in the latest poll believe Hamas was “correct” to launch its October 7 onslaught, with 82% in the West Bank and 57% in Gaza backing the terror group..
Palestinians now overwhelmingly support terrorism, support a return to the Intifada, support the kinds of acts that Hamas carried out on October 7. Once you fully grasp the enormity of that support — which has been steadily rising — it is impossible to think that a “two-state solution” is possible. It will never happen. Israel cannot possibly surrender more territory to people who make no secret that, by a large margin, they want to see the Jewish state destroyed, and Jews either expelled, or killed, or forced to submit to the status of tolerated dhimmi.
The Bidenites continue to prate about the need for a “two-state solution.” How will that miracle be achieved, if 72% of the Palestinians overall, and 82% in the West Bank, endorse the worst atrocities visited upon the Jewish people since the Holocaust? How likely is it that after October 7, Israelis will be willing to allow a new, larger Gaza, to be created in the West Bank? How can Israel possibly make peace with people who think that October 7 was a great victory for the Palestinians, something to be proud of? The only durable peace possible between the Jewish state and those who wish to destroy it is that which depends on deterrence: Israel must be so obviously stronger militarily, so capable of crushing its enemies, that those enemies may continue to hate it, but will give up trying to annihilate it.
Frank Anderson says
For the current US Administration to support blindly and in total ignorance of the established teachings and goals of Ilsam, calling for a “2 state solution” where 1 of those states is committed to the murder of the other, is nothing less than deliberate ignorance. “Deliberate ignorance constitutes knowledge of the truth.” Wyle v. R. J. Reynolds, (9th Cir. Ct. App.)
bill says
Does nobody among the world leaders, so called, ever listen or read.? The pales. were offered 2 state solutions six times and refused every one. Because what they want is all the land given to the Jews and their death. Just like the Muslims want every bit of land ever occupied by Muslims, like Spain for example and parts of Europe.
Kesselman says
Agrees with Fitzgerald all the way through. The conclusion is that everybody should recognize that the only durable outcome of this war is to put an end to the babbling of a two-state solution. It’s the least likely to come true.
Israel can’t get rid of the Arabs either inside the land or outside. Thus the only option for the Israelis is to stay armed to the teeth through the years to come.
Westpacwill says
For centuries before World War One, if anyone spoke of “Palestinians”, they were referring to Jews. The Muslims also inhabiting that land called themselves “Syrian” or “Egyptian” or “Arabs”. Biblical Israel existed on that land for centuries, while the Arabic (or Hagarites or Ishmaelites as they were generally called then) swept across the Arabian peninsula. Then came the Arabic Conquests beginning in 634 AD and in a century they had taken the Holy Lands and 2/3rds of the Christian world, with their armies conquering an empire from India, across Persia and north Africa, and even occupying Portugal and Spain for 700 years. The Qur’an has several sura of praise for the first wave of Islamic conquest — the emigrants who settle in targeted lands, providing the foothold for future invasions (Modern Europe: please take note). The main point here is that the “colonizers” and “occupiers” for 14 centuries have been Arabic, with Israel being only the most hideous example. It is a dilemma beyond the power of mankind to resolve. Only God can bring justice and peace to His Chosen People in their hereditary land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates. And God will do just that, perhaps in our own lifetimes.
JimJFox says
DON’T INVOKE ‘GOD’ – the cause of this and many other wars. Every religious fool insists his GOD is the real one in his self-delusion.
How brainless do you have to be in failing to know that all gods, all religions are man made?
Please don’t waste your time trotting out “but atheist countries have slaughtered millions”- it’s a logical fallacy.
James Lincoln says
A.P.
Assisting Palestinians.