Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians

Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians

Israel Kasnett

The US obsession with a two-state solution clearly goes against the will of the Israeli public, and certainly does not mesh with what the Palestinians want.

US Senator Chuck Schumer believes the Palestinian people “want what any other people want: peace, security and prosperity.”

Clearly, however, the Palestinians do not want peace. They themselves acknowledge that they do not “want what any other people want.” Instead, they want terrorism and the annihilation of the Jewish state.

Multiple polls have shown that the majority of Palestinian civilianssupport Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre and the idea of a Palestinian state in the 1948 borders, meaning the destruction of Israel.

A new survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR), released on Wednesday, shows that a vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza (71%) support Hamas’s decision to carry out the Oct. 7 massacre, compared to 57% in December.

The poll also shows a rise in Palestinian support for the terrorist Marwan Barghouti if he were to run in elections against Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh. Were Haniyeh to run against Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians would prefer Haniyeh.

A full 33% of Palestinians believe the most vital goal today is the “right of return” of refugees and their descendants to their 1948 towns and villages. This means that, according to the PSR poll, at least one-third of Palestinians want to replace Israel—not make peace with it.

Many Palestinians share Hamas’s desire to eliminate Israel as expressed in the terror group’s 1988 charter, and a majority of Palestinians support the formation of armed groups to murder Israelis.

A 2021 poll by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy found that a majority of Palestinians “prefer to reclaim all of historic Palestine, including the pre-1967 Israel.”

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