New (3/10) poll of Palestinians from Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research

[All Along The Watchtower]

Yes, I'm sure there's some silent majority of Palestinians out there who just hate Hamas and were appalled by 10/7, but they didn't pick up their phone.

Ok, so a majority of Palestinians believe these awful things. What are we supposed to do about it? What lesson do you want people to take away from this? What’s your preferred policy response?

I ask because in my experience, this is often used as an argument to justify Israeli policies and US support for them, and worse, that the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have died since October 7th were “asking for it.” Not exactly nice stuff.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Anyway, I don’t think it’s much of a surprise that West Bank Palestinians are more radicalized than those in Gaza, seeing as that’s where the Israeli settlements have been since the withdrawal from Gaza in the 2000s, and thus where Palestinians have been on the receiving end of settler violence (which has escalated in recent years).

Also, unlike Hamas, the PA provides police and security cooperation to Israel—hardly a popular move among West Bank Palestinians. And I imagine that having to live under Hamas’s own corrupt and dictatorial control (as opposed to the PA’s) would tend to reduce support for them among Palestinians, regardless of whether they supported their violence against Israel.