The Real Issue Is Political Leadership
The Real Issue Is Political Leadership
By David Pollock BitterLemons-API.org, June 1, 2011
Around half of Israelis, Palestinians, and some other key Arab publics, according to various opinion polls taken in the past decade, support something like the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002, whose basic concept is peace and Arab recognition of Israel in exchange for Israel’s full withdrawal from the territories it captured in the 1967 war. Similarly, around half of each one of these publics would also support other analogous proposals focused more narrowly on “land for peace” in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, such as the unofficial Palestinian-Israeli Geneva initiative of 2003 or the Clinton parameters of December 2000. Given such statistics, is this glass half empty or half full? These results suggest that political leadership could move these …
Pollsters Struggle for Accurate Picture of Mideast by Carl Bialik – The Numbers Guy – Wall Street Journal – February 26, 2011
At the height of this month’s protests in Egypt, pollsters phoned hundreds of Egyptians on their cellphones and landlines to ask them, among other things, who should be the next president of the country. Just 16% named Hosni Mubarak, who hadn’t yet stepped down.
As much as the results, the poll itself was a reflection of the growing efforts by governments, companies and others to gauge public opinion in the Middle East. Until the last decade, few major international polling organizations surveyed in the region. Today, many do, including Gallup and Pew Research Center, producing data on what Arabs and Muslims think about the U.S., religion and al Qaeda. But pollsters work under severe restrictions. Some comply with regimes that review questions and delete touchy ones. Others avoid polling during …
Pechter’s Egypt Poll Q1 2011
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Pechter’s Egypt Poll – Results from 500 randomly selected landline and cell phone interviews completed in Cairo and Alexandria Q1, 2011.
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Case Closed – Lebanon’s Christian community loses faith in the court prosecuting the killers of the country’s former premier.
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Lebanon’s Christian community has lost faith in the court established to prosecute the killers of the country’s former premier. That’s good news for Hezbollah, and bad news for the United States and its allies.
BY DAVID POLLOCK
The seemingly never-ending story of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was established by the U.N. Security Council to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, reached a landmark this week when the court’s prosecutor submitted his indictment to pretrial judge Daniel Fransen. Diplomats from Washington to Tehran expect the indictment, which will remain sealed for a few more months, to implicate members of the radical Shiite militia Hezbollah in the crime. Hezbollah has denounced the tribunal as …
The Palestinians of East Jerusalem: What Do They Really Want? – Presentation to the Council on Foreign Relations
by Adam Pechter and Dr. David Pollock
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