Times of Israel poll: Narrow majority of Israelis oppose annexation of Gaza territory
Times of Israel poll: Narrow majority of Israelis oppose annexation of Gaza territory
www.timesofisrael.com
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Times of Israel poll: Narrow majority of Israelis oppose annexation of Gaza territory
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That's surprising, but also give it a couple weeks.
Edit: Turns out this includes Palestinian Israelis (Israeli Palestinians? This is hard), which explains things.
We don't know why the people opposed that.
Last time Israelis settled in Gaza they gave it up 20 years ago, as the resistance made it too costly to maintain. By now a significant number of Israelis will know some IDF member who was killed or permanently injured when invading Gaza and the prospect of having hundreds of thousands of young men and women permanently lacking in the economy as they patrol Gaza, is not that enticing for many.
I strongly doubt that humanitarian considerations have played a relevant role for most of the "pure" Israeli respondents. We have seen many polls over the past two years and before, where Palestinians have been completely dehumanized by the Israeli society and the public discourse only has grown more genocidal as the time moved on.
Why do you think that?
Because Israelis tend to believe the most heinous shit (look up Tel Aviv University Peace Index, shit's fucked up), so I had expected a pretty comfortable majority to support annexing Gaza. But now that I checked the article, this poll includes Palestine Israelis, so with that in mind it's within expectations; if you subtract like 15% from the supporting camp to account for Palestinians you'll probably get a narrow supporting majority.