Nearly 9 Out of 10 ‘Innocent Palestinian Civilians’
Are Angered at the West’s Support for Israel
What “innocent Palestinian civilians” think of Hamas’ atrocities can be found here:
Palestinians Largely Support Oct. 7 Massacre,
Deny Hamas Guilty of War Crimes: Poll
by Troy O. Fritzhand, Algemeiner, December 14, 2023:
…Beyond the immediate region, the poll’s findings show that 87 percent of Palestinians think that the response to the war of the US and other major Western powers, such as the UK, France, and Germany, “show disregard to international humanitarian law.”
This is Islamic logic! What applies to infidels, does not apply to Jihadists. Considering what Hamas and PIJ did to women and children on Oct 7th, makes it all but impossible to conceive of anything that Hamas could do that would be condemned by Palestinians as inhumane, whereas virtually everything they did on that dreadful day was inhumane.
Yes, nearly 9 out of 10 “innocent Palestinian civilians” are angered by the Western powers, whose support for Israel’s campaign to wipe out Hamas is seen by them as “disregard to international humanitarian law.” It’s a topsy-turvy moral universe, where Muslims are the permanently oppressed and Infidel powers who dare to support Israel, as it defends itself against the terror group that in a single day murdered more Jews than had been killed since the Holocaust, are considered to be violating international humanitarian law.
Furthermore, 70 percent of respondents said that Western declarations in support of a two-state solution are “not serious.” On that same topic, most Palestinians are opposed to a two-state solution themselves, the poll found, with 34% in favor and 64% opposed. Indeed, a strong majority of Palestinians — 63 percent — said “armed struggle” against Israel is the best way forward to “end occupation and establish an independent state” — an increase of ten percentage points compared to three months ago.
Israel’s fierce response to the Hamas atrocities has hardened Palestinian views. Now two-thirds of them are against a two-state solution; they want all of Israel, “from the river to the sea,” to be replaced by the twenty-third Arab state of Palestine, and believe they can achieve it only through “armed struggle” to end what they persist in calling the “occupation.”
Throughout most of the survey, support for Hamas and its objectives were much higher among Palestinians in the West Bank than in Gaza. For example, when it comes to the overall favorability of Hamas’ rule in Gaza, 85 percent of West Bank Palestinians expressed “satisfaction with the role of Hamas,” compared to just 52 percent of Gazans.
There is less support for Hamas among Palestinians in Gaza than among those living in Judea and Samaria, because the Gazans have had the misfortune of living under its misrule for sixteen years. The 85% of West Bank Palestinians who are satisfied with “the role of Hamas” haven’t had to endure its rule; if they had, the bubble of their enthusiasm for the terror group would long ago have burst.
Another disparity between West Bank and Gaza Palestinians can be seen in the support for Hamas leadership, such as Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the terror group’s political bureau who is currently living in Qatar [he’s not in Qatar any longer]. In a hypothetical election between Abbas and Haniyeh, the latter would easily win in the West Bank, 82 percent to 10 percent, the poll found. In Gaza, Haniyeh would still trounce Abbas, but by a smaller margin: 71 percent to 24 percent. However, overall voter turnout would be only 53 percent.
Haniyeh’s putative popularity in a match-up with Mahmoud Abbas is less about Haniyeh’s intrinsic popularity and more about the widespread disgust with Abbas, especially in the West Bank where people have had sixteen years of his rule, and know just how greedy, despotic, and cruel a ruler he has been.
According to the polling, Marwan Barghouti, a senior member of Abbas’ Fatah political faction, would defeat both men in a hypothetical election and is “the most popular Palestinian figure.”
There is one big problem with Marwan Barghouti: he is a convicted murderer, currently imprisoned for life in an Israeli prison. Israel refused to include him among the 1.027 prisoners exchanged for Gilad Shalit. It is highly unlikely that it would now agree to free him, given the many murders for which he has been held responsible.
The newly released poll, which was conducted from Nov. 22-Dec. 2, included a sample size of 1231 adults, of whom 750 were interviewed face to face in the West Bank and 481 in the Gaza Strip in 121 randomly selected locations.
Those 72% of Palestinians who support Hamas’ atrocities are not “innocent civilians.” Those 99% of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria who do not agree that Hamas has been guilty of “war crimes” are not “innocent civilians.” Those 85% of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria who “have a favorable view” of Hamas, despite — or rather, because — of the atrocities it inflicted on Israelis on October 7, are not “innocent civilians.” Those 61% of Gazans who would elect Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas’ “political wing,” to be their president, are not “innocent civilians.”
There are Palestinian “civilians” in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. But so very few of them, given their enthusiasm for Hamas and their indifference to, or even approval of, its atrocities, can be called “innocent.”
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