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The General Results:
• 71.3% of respondents supported the call of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to the
Palestinian Authority to declare the establishment of a Palestinian State in August
2011.
• 21.3% of respondents believed that the USA will succeed in exerting pressure on
Israel to freeze settlement activities in East Jerusalem for four months.
• 48.7% of respondents supported conducting direct negotiations between the
Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Government; 47.3% rejected.
• 34% of respondents supported conducting indirect negotiations between the
Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Government; 60.8% rejected.
• 78.6% of respondents supported the decision of the Palestinian Authority not
to negotiate with the Israeli Government while the latter continues to build
settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• 83% of respondents rejected conducting negotiations between the Palestinian
Authority and Israel in case Israel continues to build settlements in the West
Bank and East Jerusalem; 14.3% supported.
• 9.3% of respondents believed that the decisions of the Arab Summit relating to
Jerusalem were satisfactory; 83% believed that they were not.
• 11.6% of respondents believed that the Arab countries will carry out the
decisions of the Arab Summit relating to the Palestinian question and
Jerusalem while 79.5% believed that they will not.
• 56.1% of respondents supported the declaration made by a group of
Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip to stop firing rockets against Israel from
Gaza; 37.7% rejected.
• 55.6% of respondents believed that the stand of Hamas towards firing rockets
against Israel has become congruent with that of the Palestinian Authority.
• 51.3% of respondents believed that it is possible to reach a national
reconciliation agreement between Fateh and Hamas in the near future; 42.5%
believed the contrary.
• 15.7% of respondents believed that Hamas is the side which benefits most
from signing the Palestinian reconciliation agreement while 22.2% believed
that Fateh is the side that benefits most.
• 50.6% of respondents said that they are not optimistic of signing a
reconciliation agreement in the near future.
• 44.7% of respondents believed that the sides of the Palestinian dialogue,
particularly Fateh and Hamas, are not concerned with ending the Palestinian
split.
• 48.9% of respondents believed that the reason behind not reaching a
Palestinian reconciliation agreement is that some people seek to achieve
personal interests; 42.6% believed that the reason has to do with seeking
factional interests.
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