Palestinians favor negotiations and nonviolent means, but still do not accept Israel’s legitimacy, a poll showed.
The Israel Project poll showed that a substantial majority of Palestinians see a two-state solution as a step toward a one-state solution and not as an end in itself.
Asked to choose between two statements, 66 percent of respondents favored “The real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state” and 30 percent picked “I can accept permanently a two-state solution with a homeland for the Palestinian people living side by side with Israel, a homeland for the Jewish people.”
Asked whether they agreed with President Barack Obama that “there should be two states: Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people and Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people,” 34 percent accepted the formulation and 61 percent rejected it. — jta