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Hamas popularity surges as Palestinian rivalry flares
Reuters ^ | 09/02/2014

Posted on 09/02/2014 5:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Militant group Hamas would sweep Palestinian elections if they were held today after its support soared during seven weeks of war with Israel in Gaza, an opinion poll published on Tuesday found.

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research said the poll showed Islamists clearly leading presidential and parliamentary polls for the first time since Palestinans last voted eight years ago, when Hamas won power in Gaza.

Most Palestinians surveyed said they preferred Hamas's strategy of armed struggle against Israel rather than peace negotiations, which are favored by Fatah, once the dominant Palestinian political movement and one backed by the West.

The views, collected among over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, show an unprecedented popular shift towards Hamas as tensions with Fatah boil.

Hamas's former premier Ismail Haniyeh would win 61 percent of votes in a two-way race against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, with the Fatah chief taking just 32 percent of the vote, the survey found.

More than half (53 percent) of respondents said an armed approach would help gain a Palestinian state, as opposed to 20 percent who said they supported non-violent means.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; palestine

1 posted on 09/02/2014 5:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

are they serious? you show me one pali civilian that wants to continue this rain of suicide. media whores.


2 posted on 09/02/2014 5:32:02 AM PDT by Colehill1999 (Obama - he has become death, destroyer of the world.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Most Palestinians surveyed said they preferred Hamas's strategy of armed struggle against Israel rather than peace negotiations...

Sympathy level for Palestinian civilian injuries and deaths in the war - just dropped to near zero. If that's what you want, then do not lament the easily predictable consequences of that course of action.

3 posted on 09/02/2014 5:55:10 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The muslim residents of Gaza are nothing more than rabid, crazed dogs.


4 posted on 09/02/2014 6:05:58 AM PDT by RatRipper (No need to rob others; democRATS will steal and share a tiny bit with you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only one solution here. Hamas and Fatah need to duke it out.


5 posted on 09/02/2014 6:07:06 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: SeekAndFind

If, and a big ‘if’, this is true, then the Israeli MP who proposed a buyout of Gaza, paying every non-Hamas man, woman and child to leave and go to another country, may have finally figured out how to end this mess.

Seriously, Israel has a GDP of about $200b USD. For just $10b, once, they could make every Gazan who went to Egypt upper-middle class by Egyptian standards. And there would be nobody left in Gaza but Hamas gunmen who could be exterminated. Though it is unlikely they would stay without their human shields to hide behind.

A one-time payment, and the Gaza Strip would be empty. And there would be peace.

If the Gazans or Hamas tried to make a fuss in Egypt, the Egyptians would not hesitate in exterminating them, and they know it. And nobody would shed a tear for their loss.


6 posted on 09/02/2014 6:13:45 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Colehill1999
Are YOU serious? They have wanted a rain of death and destruction for at least 50 years.

life magazine June 1970


7 posted on 09/02/2014 6:17:19 AM PDT by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Support a terrorist and you Are a terrorist.

As the average Palisimian supports the armed terrorism of their favored Palisimians, they are all terrorists.

Cluster munitions and fuel/air munitions are called for.


8 posted on 09/02/2014 6:38:19 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Colehill1999

“you show me one pali civilian that wants to continue this rain of suicide.”

Written by an obvious Judeo-Christian.

Muslims think totally differently than you do.

You value life.

Muslims welcome death.

That article did describe the Muslim mind.


9 posted on 09/02/2014 6:42:28 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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RE: As the average Palisimian supports the armed terrorism of their favored Palisimians, they are all terrorists.

Cluster munitions and fuel/air munitions are called for.

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I guess the 20% polled who support non-violent means will die with the guilty. TSK TSK.


10 posted on 09/02/2014 6:47:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Hamas would sweep Palestinian elections if they were held today.”

Really? I wonder what percentage of the vote Kim Jong-un would get in North Korea.


11 posted on 09/02/2014 6:51:15 AM PDT by servo1969
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You can’t fix stupid. Those idiots have the government they deserve. I hope they enjoy their self-inflicted misery to the fullest. A pox on muslims!


12 posted on 09/02/2014 9:34:36 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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