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RAMALLAH, West Bank — A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the attack this month on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem that killed eight young men, most of them teenagers, an indication of the alarming level of Israeli-Palestinian tension in recent weeks.

The survey also shows unprecedented support for the shooting of rockets on Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip and for the end of the peace negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders.

The pollster, Khalil Shikaki, said he was shocked because the survey, taken last week, showed greater support for violence than any other he had conducted over the past 15 years in the Palestinian areas. Never before, he said, had a majority favored an end to negotiations or the shooting of rockets at Israel.

“There is real reason to be concerned,” Mr. Shikaki said in an interview at his West Bank office. His Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, which conducts a survey every three months, is widely viewed as among the few independent and reliable gauges of Palestinian public opinion.

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What to do about Gaza: The realistic scenario

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What is needed, instead, is an option based on reality, not wishful thinking: to push Hamas back. Israel's interest is to minimize attacks on its soil and citizens while limiting the cost of the response needed to achieve that goal. This can best be done by combining a more active version of current policy and the creation of a security zone in the northern Gaza Strip to push Hamas and its allies out of range.

Such a zone could be made relatively secure because it would be on a narrow front, with flanks protected by the sea on the north and Israel proper on the south and east, with Israel controlling the airspace. This would be an interim policy until anti-rocket defenses could be implemented, in perhaps three years.

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As for that so-called “realistic scenario” for dealing with Gaza – i.e.:

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This can best be done by combining a more active version of current policy and the creation of a security zone in the northern Gaza Strip to push Hamas and its allies out of range.

Such a zone could be made relatively secure because it would be on a narrow front, with flanks protected by the sea on the north and Israel proper on the south and east, with Israel controlling the airspace.

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And this “security zone” would of course not be carved out of Israeli territory, but out of Gaza territory. It would involve forcibly depopulating a large area of Gaza, which in international law is a crime against humanity. This is a plan that has your blessing?

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Originally posted by Young Pinhas:

I'd have to agree. Building a security zone in northern Gaza would greatly reduce rocket attacks. Israel should implement this as soon as possible to help protect it's civilians.

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Encouraging Israel to commit more war crimes and crimes against humanity? Those who live by the sword are doomed to die by the sword. You should study some Tanach - not just the passage about Amalek - and learn some wisdom:

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I'd have to agree. Building a security zone in northern Gaza would greatly reduce rocket attacks. Israel should implement this as soon as possible to help protect it's civilians.

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Do you suppose the majority of Israeli public opinion doesn’t support that country’s murderous air strikes on Gaza that have killed hundreds of civilians? They do? So why is it so shocking that most Gazans favour retaliation?

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The article states that the majority of palestinians support entering a school and shooting it's students, rocket attacks and the end of peace negotiations between the leaders of both peoples.

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And this “security zone” would of course not be carved out of Israeli territory, but out of Gaza territory. It would involve forcibly depopulating a large area of Gaza, which in international law is a crime against humanity. This is a plan that has your blessing?

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The 'temporary area' would be carved out of Gaza because the rockets are not being launched from Israel. The area does not have to be a large one.

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Not a very auspicious start to your babble career, pal.

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Originally posted by Young Pinhas:

I'd ask you to please not refer to me as 'pal', 'buddy' and/or 'chief'. Thanks

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Originally posted by Lard Tunderin' Jeezus:
I definitely had a couple of other words in mind.

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I also fundamentally dissagree with YP, but I really don't like your snide baiting LTJ.

If there is substantive disagreement with someone who holds a decidedly minority position in a forum, and there is also considerable baiting of and snide jabs made at that person, then what a lot of observors of the discussion are going to remember is the baiting and sympatithize with someone being ganged up on.

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I'd ask you to please not refer to me as 'pal', 'buddy' and/or 'chief'. Thanks
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I definitely had a couple of other words in mind.

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I'm pretty sure what LTJ meant was something like "buster", or "amigo".

But you never know. I've always said about LTJ, is that he's far too subtle and nuanced in his comments about other babblers.

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Wheteher you care or not, your actions have convinced me to stick around here a bit longer.

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The 'temporary area' would be carved out of Gaza because the rockets are not being launched from Israel. The area does not have to be a large one.

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The 'temporary area' would be carved out of Gaza because the rockets are not being launched from Israel. The area does not have to be a large one.

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Originally posted by Young Pinhas:

Thank you, KenS. Obviously, to have a healthy discussion, it's good to have opposing views. Wheteher you care or not, your actions have convinced me to stick around here a bit longer.

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You seem to be hung up on a school being attacked. Are you in favour of the bombing of Taliban complexes where they teach Islamic fundamentalism? If you are then why is it wrong to bomb Jewish fundamentalist schools that teach that god chose them as its special people in preference to Palestians?