Henry Imler February 21st, 2006

The Australian: Most Hamas voters don’t want to destroy Israel [February 22, 2006]

IN the first Palestinian opinion poll since Hamas’s
election victory, only 12 per cent of Hamas voters said they chose the
party for its agenda of calling for the destruction of Israel.

The largest group, 43 per cent, chose Hamas because they were fed up
with corruption in the previous Fatah-led government. The rest voted
for religious reasons or hoping for a better life.

Some Hamas leaders have said the new Government will not recognise
previous Palestinian-Israeli agreements, but 52 per cent of those
polled said they believed the party should honour the Oslo Accord for a
two-state solution in which a Palestinian state exists peacefully with
Israel.

Forty-two per cent said the Government was not obliged to honour the
accord, according to the poll by the Jerusalem Media and Communications
Centre.

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