|
Comment on this article |
Email this Article
|
|
News :: Israel / Palestine |
|
The march away from democracy |
Current rating: 0 |
by haaretz via gehrig
(No verified email address) |
21 Jun 2004
|
|
|
Poll: 64% of Israeli Jews support encouraging Arabs to leave
By Yulie Khromchenco, Haaretz Correspondent
A University of Haifa poll released Monday reveals that a majority of the Jewish public in Israel - 63.7 percent - believes that the government should encourage Israeli Arabs to emigrate from Israel.
The survey, conducted by the university's National Security Study Center, also found that 48.6 percent of the Israeli Jews polled said the government was overly sympathetic to the Arab population.
The majority of Jewish respondents, 55.3 percent, said Israeli Arabs endangered national security, while 45.3 percent of those polled said they supported revoking Israeli Arabs' right to vote and hold political office.
About one-quarter of the Jewish public said they would consider voting for an ultra-nationalist party like the outlawed Kach if such a party were to run in the next elections, the survey revealed.
Professor Gabriel Ben-David oversaw the poll, which tabulated the responses of 1,016 Israelis to phone interviews conducted in May.
@%< |
This work is in the public domain |
