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| | Satisfaction with Hamas’s performance since October 7 stands at 75 percent, compared to 24 percent for its rival, Fatah. Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar enjoys a 65 percent satisfaction rating compared to Abbas’s 10 percent. Nearly 90 percent of Palestinians want Abbas to resign. | | Satisfaction with Hamas’s performance since October 7 stands at 75 percent, compared to 24 percent for its rival, Fatah. Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar enjoys a 65 percent satisfaction rating compared to Abbas’s 10 percent. Nearly 90 percent of Palestinians want Abbas to resign. |
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| − | The poll also found that 40 percent of Palestinians support Hamas, compared to only 20 percent for Fatah. The poll found that 69 percent view the PA as a burden, 65 percent oppose a two-state solution, and 63 percent support armed intifada.</small></blockquote></ref> most Palestinian Arabs support [[October 7 War|Oct 7]] attacks. | + | The poll also found that 40 percent of Palestinians support Hamas, compared to only 20 percent for Fatah. The poll found that 69 percent view the PA as a burden, 65 percent oppose a two-state solution, and 63 percent support armed intifada.</small></blockquote></ref> most Palestinian Arabs support [[October 7 War|Oct 7]] attacks and Hamas. |
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| | ==Conflict = bigotry== | | ==Conflict = bigotry== |
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| | Georges Bensoussan, Fondapol, April 4, 2024</ref> | | Georges Bensoussan, Fondapol, April 4, 2024</ref> |
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| − | Then came along another entity -- not a neighbour -- hat never had a "land" issue with Israel, the Islamic Republic of [[Iran]] with its [[Islamism]] zealous vowing to wipe out Israel and creating proxies in [[Lebanon]]: [[Hezbollah]], Palestinian Islamic Jihad [[PIJ]], baciking [[Hamas]], setting up groups in [[Iraq]], [[Syria]] with bases too and the [[Houthis]] in the [[Yemen]]. | + | Then came along another entity -- not a neighbour -- that never had a "land" issue with Israel, the Islamic Republic of [[Iran]] with its [[Islamism]] zealous vowing to wipe out Israel and creating proxies in [[Lebanon]]: [[Hezbollah]], Palestinian Islamic Jihad [[PIJ]], baciking [[Hamas]], setting up groups in [[Iraq]], [[Syria]] with bases too and the [[Houthis]] in the [[Yemen]]. |
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| | ==The "indigenous" myth== | | ==The "indigenous" myth== |