Yes, even after Oct. 7. Yes, even after Hamas has suffered devastating losses in Gaza.
“Two-thirds of Palestinians want Hamas in new Gaza government, survey finds,” JNS, December 24, 2024:
Close to two-thirds of Palestinians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria prefer for Hamas terrorists to be part of, or even lead, a Palestinian governing body that would control the Strip after the current war with Israel concludes, according to a new Arab opinion poll published over the weekend.
The Ramallah-based Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) polling firm surveyed 704 Palestinian adults between Nov. 27 and Dec. 2. (The margin of error is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, AWRAD said.)
According to the poll, 47% of Palestinians say they would put their trust in a government of “national unity” that would include Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, which currently governs swaths of Judea and Samaria, as well as Hamas, the terror group that ruled Gaza until it was destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces in recent months.
Meanwhile, 17% of the surveyed Palestinians told AWRAD they favor a return to the situation in which Gaza is ruled solely by Hamas terrorists.
In Judea and Samaria, respondents showed significantly more support for Hamas than for the Western-backed P.A., with 25% expressing support for the Islamist terrorist organization, compared to just 10% for the P.A.
Hamas led the bloody terror attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, during which 1,200 people were murdered, thousands more were wounded and over 250 innocents were taken as hostages to the Strip.
Asked about possible P.A. presidential candidates if Ramallah would call its first vote in almost 19 years, Marwan Barghouti, a convicted terrorist murderer affiliated with Fatah serving multiple life sentences in Israel, received the most support of all possible candidates for P.A. chief….
Taffy says
Nothing has changed. The only way for Israel to be safe from these Gazans and occupants of Judea and Sumeria is to deport them all to Yemen and let them live under Houthi rule. They will then be far enough away so as to not pose a threat.
somehistory says
Because that *tiny minority* of mozlums who want to murder the rest of mankind, isn’t really tiny, nor is it a minority of mozlums.
islam is a criminal enterprise, full of criminals. Most mozlums are truly devout, even if they don’t go about slicing, dicing, raping and screaming their foul lie about their false god and demanding everyone worship their demonically inspired fake prophet. They all **want** that and celebrate and defend the ones who commit the terror attacks.
mozlums lust to shed blood, do injury and make *infidels* suffer. If they can stay at home while this happens, eating and drinking and raping their young children, they are fine with others out and about raping, murdering, plundering and even dying for their fake prophet….who, if he lived, did those very things.
All those mozlums saying they are tired of hamas….just another tactic to fool the ignorant. mozlums lie.
there may be some who don’t rape and murder; but all of them lie in order to further the rape and murder.
Tim gallagher says
People who are evil enough to support the totally inhuman, satanically evil scum of the earth from Hamas are people I don’t give a damn about. Go Israel, whose citizens seem to be the only civilised people in that part of the world.
St Croix says
Speaks volumes, does it not?
Pity the few–as they are certainly the minority, but they are there–who are anti-Hamas and anti-PA. Neither of those two are a non-choice for a sensible person, so what is there to choose between? They may hope, as some “Palestinians” said in an interview, that Israel WOULD annex their area–that was in the West Bank, in the area Israel wanted to go ahead and annex when Trump was still in office and Trump discouraged it. The Arabs who lived there said they wanted to be under Israel, at least they would have basic services!
What do Hamas or PA know about running a country and taking care of people? They only know how to pad their bank accounts and plan for taking Israel from the Jews. Abbas is also the same.
Trump said Abbas was “very nice, like a father figure” — I do hope he has done his homework by this time, and sees the truth written in bold script on the wall: The Palestinians, including Hamas, and Abbas, DO NOT want peace. He accused Netanyahu of not wanting peace. Well, there can be no peace with a 2-state solution. It will not work.
Now HTS says they want good relations with Israel. Yes, for now. Until they are ready and have organized all the groups and made the plans. Hudna. They are willing to “make nice” until they are ready to attack.
St Croix says
I meant “Either of these two is a non-choice…”
Bleary eyes!
Too much computer reading will do that. You know, there’s a lot of jihad in the world right now? Yes, you know already.
abu taleb says
Hamas says that they are not responsible for the Palestinian people’s welfare and security, it is either the UN’s resposibility because the Gaza people are refugees or Israel’s responsibility as the “occupier”.
So the Gaza people have nothing to blame but themselves for picking Hamas as their government who does not care on its people, steal the money and food from its people and even kill its own people. And the Gaza people support the attrocities of Hamas toward Israel.
Even if Israel retaliates to the Gaza people (which is not on purpose), the Gaza people deserve it.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sooner or later, Israel needs to annex all these territories and expel all muslims who subscribe to the jihad against them. There is no other alternative
drew webb says
LIKE 👍
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
I know of no other lasting alternative.
somehistory says
In ancient times. the “alien resident” was to follow the Law to a certain degree (they could not go everywhere the Jews could go, etc.) or he would suffer the consequences.
The same could be applied today to the mozlums in Israel. If they don’t toe the line, they suffer the consequences.
James Hoagland says
The fact is Gaza, Judea and Samaria are legally Jewish lands. As part of Western Palestine this could also include south Lebanon! Just watch how maintaining a strong defensive policy Israel will need to assert control over all this as needed to defend its borders and sovereignty. I will not delve into The Promised Land! as by circumstance this will reveal itself!
Gamaliel says
There are Palestinian Arabs who hate Hamas. They didn’t speak up because of fear of being killed. You can see a video Israel’s channel 12 created about that at https://getinsight.pro/schools/gazans_speak.htm