By Ryan Jones
Feb 07, 2006
The results of a new public opinion poll show that most Israelis oppose further unilateral withdrawals, and that most Israelis believe a government headed by Ehud Olmert's Kadima Party will implement additional unilateral withdrawals.
Carried out on Sunday and Monday by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute and commissioned by the Zionist Organization of America, the poll showed a significant majority of Israelis do not back surrendering more land in Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Arabs under a series of likely scenarios.
50 percent oppose withdrawals if the Palestinian Authority continues its failure to end anti-Jewish terrorism;
</li><li><p>56 percent oppose withdrawals if
there is a chance the resulting Palestinian Arab state and its Arab
world allies will pose a threat to Israel; and</p>
</li><li><p>64 percent oppose withdrawals if
the evacuated areas will be used to fire Kassam rockets at central
Israel as the recently evacuated Gaza Strip is used today to target
Western Negev towns.</p>
Sixty percent of the survey's 624 respondents said they see a vote for Kadima as a vote for additional withdrawals from Judea and Samaria even if ?Palestinian? terror continues unabated. Only nine percent believe a future Olmert-led will not make concessions to the killers of Jewish men, women and children.
The poll did show that of the 57 percent of Israelis that are certain they will vote, a majority plans to vote for Kadima. However, 34 percent said they have either not decided which party to vote for or refused to give a reply.
If that 34 percent, which will decide the future occupants of 40 Knesset seats, belongs to the large majority opposing ?disengagement? from the Land of Israel, Kadima may be in for a rude awakening.
Time will tell if the leftist commissioned and reported polls flooding Israel's media on an almost daily basis with numbers showing a landslide victory for Kadima can be trusted.
One thing is certain ? the ZOA survey shows that the leftist polls are at present only representing part of the picture with so many Israelis still undecided.