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Source: https://www.jns.org/what-do-the-palestinians-want/
What Do the Palestinians Want?
(JNS) Caroline B. Glick - For more than a generation, Western leaders have insisted that the Palestinians want peace. Over the years, Israelis have produced lengthy dossiers, documentaries, and intelligence reports exposing how the Palestinian education system indoctrinates children from birth to embrace the cause of Israel's annihilation and imbued the entire society with a genocidal, jihadist outlook that seeks the utter elimination of Judaism and Jews. Yet these efforts failed to impact the West's tendency to blame the absence of peace on "extreme right-wing" Israelis who reject territorial concessions to a society and a governing authority that aspire to wipe Israel off the map. On Oct. 7, the sadism and scope of Hamas' slaughter shocked the whole of Israeli society to its core. Polling data indicates that there has been a sea change of opinion among Israelis regarding the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians. The same cannot be said of the West. Led by the Biden administration, Western governments have uniformly insisted that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians. Last week, Birzeit University near Ramallah published a survey of Palestinian opinion which found that 75% of Palestinians support the Hamas-led slaughter of Oct. 7. Likewise, 75% of Palestinians seek the annihilation of Israel. As to the Westerners insisting the Palestinians are peaceful and hate Hamas, the Palestinians hate the U.S. and UK as much as they hate Israel: 98% of Palestinians hate the U.S. and 97% hate Britain. In short, the Birzeit poll does not reflect a peaceful people interested in coexistence and peace. It presents a clear portrait of a genocidal society. The Palestinians are a society unified by their common goal of annihilating Israel. That is who they are. That is what they want.