I tried, but failed, to find the poll Loewenstein referred to when he was quoted saying: “There was a poll just this week that found 70-80 percent of Israeli Jews support…", regarding what the title claims. Please share if you have it, I find it hard to believe this poll exists.
This is the only thing I could find
The Direct Polls survey that was published last Thursday (Direct Polls: Gantz and Bibi Neck-and-Neck, Smotrich Beats the Threshold) included the question: “To what degree do you support encouraging the voluntary emigration of Gaza Strip residents?”
The response of 1,487 adults (18+) who are a representative sample of the general population in Israel, with a statistical sampling error of ± 3.9%, at a 95% probability, was overwhelmingly in favor of the idea.
68% support it strongly
15% are quite supportive
8% don’t really support it
9% don’t support it at all
Thanks! Seems close enough. I would still take anything coming out of Channel 14 with a grain of salt. It is considered to be Bibi’s propoganda channel 🤷
Did you realize that “support” appears in each response ?
Are you aware of the meaning of the word “not”?
The other part that makes no sense:
“finding somewhere else for Palestinians in Gaza to be removed. Israel claims that this is somehow voluntary, which is nonsense.”
Where should they be removed? How do you expect them to get there when the borders for Gaza are closed?
Feels like we’ve seen this movie before…
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
Where should they be removed?
That’s a tough problem. Maybe concentrate them in camps until they’ve found a final solution.
Describing Gaza and the West Bank as reservations really helps Americans understand what Israel is doing.
Seems like Al Jazeera should have cited it since they published the story but I cannot find it either.
In other news, majority of Palestinians support the removal of Israeli settlers from the West Bank.
Maybe they could work out a swap?
But first, Hamas must be destroyed, and Hamas’s supporter Netanyahu prosecuted.
Wtf are you talking about, there is no swap to be made. Both Gaza and the entirety of the West Bank belong to Palestinians. There is plenty of land in Israel proper. The settlers should just GTFO.
Settlers Aka occupiers.
Amazing no one stop to ask where these “settlers” come from?
Europe, and since they’re so intent on genociding the native population like the other europeans who colonised the U.S, Canada, Australia and New Zealand did, it is time they go back home (Deutschland especially)
Remember there’s always a place for Jews in Europe and the rest of the developed world, not so much for palestinians and other brown ppl.
Are you claiming that the last few decades we have seen the kind of Anti-semitism of the beginning of the 20th century that would justify a program of mass settlement of Jewish people on land outside Israel? Because that is a ridiculous thing to say.
There is no mass scale anti-semitism. Israel is not the safest place for Jews (north america is). Palestinian land is not needed for Jewish settlement, Israel proper has plenty plenty of land, enough to be proposing land swaps every now and then.
Israeli settlements are entirely indefensible and entirely a crime.
Hamas is an ideology. Even Israel recently stated this and said you can’t stop an ideology. This dovetails perfectly into the sentiment of this article. Both together, plus idf actions show genocide is really what they want.
We can’t stop an ideology, but we can destroy governments based on an obnoxious ideology. And that is progress, obviously. Japanese Militarism, Soviet Communism, Nazi Fascism, Italian Fascism, Spanish Fascism… all still around as fringe ideologies, but I’m sure most of us are happy that governments that held these ideologies fell. Israel obviously is trying to destroy the current Hamas government in Gaza, not kill all of the residents.
When the ratio of civilian death to hamas death is far greater, you need to realise something is fundamentally wrong with the actions of the idf.
Additionally, reports of Jewish attacks on Palestinians are up too, which was high even prior to the war.
All that will happen is more people will join the cause to fight against the occupation of Palestine.
You all want to see an end to attacks you saw prior to the war, but you need to realise all that will happen is more hostility due to the wanton destruction of their home.
The leaders the idf seek are in Qatar, but they already knew this, which is why for weeks, the world was told this is a war against hamas the ideology they now state can’t be destroyed!
Seems like to me that here we have the same thing that USA did with the wmd excuse.
Yeah, because they are genocidal lunatics.
Sure, but the majority of gazans support Hamas
Both before and after the attacks
So same conclusion then?
Yes. They are all shitty.
No, because it’s a natural human reaction on danger - they want to eliminate it, everything be damned.
Not even blaming them, despite them being super wrong with big consequences. All we can do is reach out and try to explain that their army is causing even more suffering some of them just endured, and that not all Palestinians are the kinds of guys who broke into Israel.
The “good people on both sides” argument has historically gone so well, I’m sure it will work wonders here. /s
I know exactly 0 instances when hate and blame game made people reconsider
It’s just generally hard to change what’s happening and reactions of Israelis, this is deeply influenced by human physchology - all I’m saying.
Did Nazis get convinced they are baddies?
That’s what’s most important at the end of the day.
Also, the parallels are incorrect, Jews did not attack Germans
The danger of people resisting having their houses stolen and their family murdered?
Yes, with some of them coming back and stealing houses and murdering families, too.
Look, never have I ever argued they are right; what happens in Palestine is a bunch of war crimes and I really hope Netanyahu and company will suffer grave consequences.
People are super quick to trigger on the subject.
But human psychology is flawed, especially after traumatizing events; I’m only saying that it’s natural for Israelis to behave this way, even if not right, and when people are fanatically holding some position (because they see the alternative as eventual death, y’know), hatred might not be the solution.
Right now, as people die, we should focus on what’s effective, not a knee-jerk. That’s why police holds negotiations with terrorists, for example. Because it’s more effective at preserving human lives, not because they sympathize.
I want this war to end as soon as possible. Do you?
I want the occupation to end, not just this ‘war’. There’s not going to be peace until the last Palestinian is killed, or if Israel decides to unwind the settlement policy from the last decades. As we’ve seen with the IRA and ANC, the way to stop terrorism is by offering a political solution that works for all involved.
I mean, first we stop bloodshed, second we start negotiations and high-level diplomacy.
War is currently the highest priority, and then come all the issues around apartheid and Israel’s actions in peace time
“Removal”, how exactly? Because doing it with bombs isn’t very efficient so far. Are they looking into a final solution already? Fucking embarrassing…
Well, you know how Nazi Germany dealt with their ‘Jewish Problem’?
Israel is currently dealing with their ‘Palestinian Problem’.
Zionists are Nazis.
You bomb the infrastructure until the whole area is unlivable, then you graciously allow them to cross the border into Egypt. Textbook ethnic cleansing.
The majority are brainwashed like in every country that is doing bad shit America included. The woke are few and far between. Most are eat the status quo and keep on trucking types. They will eat shit til they die and not care.
Genocide
ha, is this a ‘no shit’ article or what. your ‘country’ is currently steamrolling over the entire area, razing it to the ground.
ya think??
This war should end with a Palestinian corridor the ensure connection between west Bank and Gaza
Wonder if any of these Israelis will feel shame in 20 years after all this negative energy dies down.
Big ups to Israel for proving all the antisemites correct. Way to go, dumbasses.
Sorry, but I just don’t trust polls anymore. They never really get a representation of the public as a whole and instead end up talking with the only interested parties: bored conservative old people.
That’s probably true, but that’s also the large majority of voters often so it can still represent something.
