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Majority of Palestinians Want "Talks" with Israel

The news is full of Hamas-related issues, the suicide bombers, the travails, financially, of the new PA Government and many in the world refusing to recognise the new PA Government.

Now this news, as reported in Ha'aretz, makes for interesting reading:

"Although Hamas' popularity has risen in the first two months since its late January parliamentary victory, three-quarters of Palestinians want negotiations with Israel, leading pollster Khalil Shakaki has found.

In a poll conducted March 16-18, Shakaki found that 47 percent of the 1,270 respondents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip said they would bring Hamas to power again if elections were held a second time. However, 75 percent said they want Hamas to hold negotiations with Israel."

I suspect that given the "will" of ordinary people everywhere, they simply want to get on with their lives untrammeled by conflict. It's only when Governments or religion "interferes" that problems arise in so many ways.

Read the full Ha'aretz article here.

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