Poll: 57% of Palestinians see Hamas strengthened by Gaza war

[Mosby]

Nablus – Ma’an – Fifty-seven percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza believe that Hamas is stronger now than it was before the Israeli offensive in December and January, a new opinion poll suggests.

The poll, released on Wednesday by researchers at An-Najah National University in the West Bank city of Nablus, was conducted between 1 and 2 February with a sample size of 1361 people in the West Bank and Gaza.

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79.4% of respondents said that they will participate in the coming legislative elections. From among those who said they will participate, 31.4% said that they will give their votes to Fatah's candidates; 24.6% said they will give their votes to Hamas' candidates.

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35520

[cboy4]

1. But yet they'll vote for Fatah

What does that tell ya.

[Mosby]

2. It tells me that the Palestinians place more blame on Hamas

From the survey:


23.7% of respondents said that those who hinder the Palestinian dialogue are members of Hamas and Fatah; 15.7 % blamed Hamas; 10.9% blamed Fatah.


48.9% of respondents believed that Fatah movement participated in widening the internal Palestinian rift.

62.8% of respondents believed that Hamas movement participated in widening the internal Palestinian rift.

[azurnoir]

3. By the percentages

44% of Palestinian voter are not committed to either party which is a big chunk the only surprise is that no candidate names were mentioned my money right now would be on Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi his cousin Marwan in some ways would have been my first choice but Marwan is in prison in Israel on terrorism charges however he was tried and convicted in a civil trial not military, a rare possibly singular occurrence

[ProgressiveMuslim]

4. Actually the coming elections are for president.

Legislative elections aren't slated until 2010.

[Mosby]

5. They polled for both

79% of respondents said that they will participate in the coming presidential elections. From among those who said they will participate, 31.9% said that they will give their votes to Fatah's candidate; 23.5% said they will give their votes to Hamas' candidate.

I posted this poll recently - it is from Nov '08. Abbas polled slightly ahead of Haniyeh and more than double what Barghoui got:

Total West Bank Gaza
n= 1200 n= 760 n= 440
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) 15.9 13.9 19.3
Isma’eel Haniyeh 13.8 10.5 19.5
Marwan Barghouthi 6.7 6.7 6.6
Mustafa Barghouthi 3.0 3.0 3.0
Salam Fayyad 2.5 3.2 1.4
Yasser Arafat 2.5 3.2 1.4
Mohamad Dahlan 2.0 0.3 5.0
Khaled Mish’al 1.4 0.8 2.5
Ahmad Sa’adat 1.3 1.1 1.8
Ramadan Shalah 1.0 0.1 2.5
Others 5.9 6.1 5.7
Don’t trust anyone 38.7 44.3 28.9
No answer 5.3 6.8 2.4
* These answers were not included as part of the options read to the interviewee

http://www.jmcc.org/publicpoll/results/2008/no66-eng.pdf

[ProgressiveMuslim]

6. Arafat? Dahlan? OMG!

Most telling is the last answer: Don't trust anyone!

[Idealism]

7. At least one person on that list is dead and another is imprisoned... great poll!