13.01.2011                     8.Shevat, 5771

Umfrage:

Poll: One-third of East Jerusalem Arabs would rather live in Israel than Palestine

In new survey, 40% of East Jerusalem residents say they are willing to relocate if their neighborhoods become part of a future Palestinian state.

Arab residents of East Jerusalem are divided on whether they would want Israeli or Palestinian citizenship should a future Palestinian state be created, suggests a new poll released on Wednesday in Washington.
The survey, conducted by Pechter Middle East Polls in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, asked a simple question that the leaders both in Israel and the Palestinian authority seem to ignore all too often: What do the people themselves want? And the people seem confused….