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Poll Shows 40 Percent of Jerusalem Arabs Prefer Israel to a Palestinian State
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) David Pollock - New research reveals that 42% of the Palestinians who reside in Jerusalem would try to move to Israel if their neighborhood became part of a new Palestinian state. 39% say they would prefer Israeli to Palestinian citizenship. The common understanding that Arabs are being driven from Jerusalem is false: Since 1967, the Palestinian population has more than quadrupled from 70,000 to 288,000. During the same period, the city's Israeli population has roughly doubled from 250,000 to 500,000. The view that Arabs cannot build in Jerusalem is also false: Only 24% of east Jerusalem Palestinians say they are dissatisfied with "the ease or difficulty of obtaining building permits."