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A Palestinian woman slaps her shoe (a most insulting gesture) during a protest in Rafah, on a placard portraying President Obama who was visiting at the time. Photo by Reuters.

Poll: Palestinians say political affiliation of US president ‘makes no difference’

By Ma’an news
March 16/17, 2016

BETHLEHEM — The majority of Palestinians believe the political affiliation of the future US president “makes no difference” when it comes to advancing the peace process, according to a recent public opinion poll.

The poll, conducted by Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Survey and Research (PSR), revealed that while 27 percent of Palestinians said a Democratic US president would be better for the peace process, 16 percent preferred a Republican.

Fifty-two percent meanwhile believed the political affiliation of the future president would be irrelevant both to the peace process and future relations between US and Palestinian leadership.

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PSR reported that most Palestinians indicated a lack of familiarity with the majority of US presidential candidates, but overwhelmingly rejected the statement made by Donald Trump on banning Muslims from entering the US.

Some 59 percent of those polled agreed with Hillary Clinton’s statement that efforts should continue to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace and that the best outcome for both sides is a two-state solution.

While the majority of Palestinians thought that Arab Americans had little influence on US foreign policy, 76 percent believed that the Jewish American community has significant influence.

PSR’s recently-published survey results were based on face-to-face interviews that took place mid-February with 1,270 adults questioned for the poll, which it said had a margin of error of 3 percent.

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Palestinians have increasingly rejected US-led efforts towards a two-state solution, with two-thirds believing that such a solution was no longer viable due to settlement expansion as of the end of last year, according to PSR.

Construction of illegal settlements by consecutive Israeli governments on Palestinian land have effectively made a contiguous Palestinian state impossible, and Israel has continued to ignore calls by rights organizations and the international community to halt settlement growth.

US Vice President Joe Biden criticized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory last week, chastising Abbas for his failure to condemn recent Palestinian attacks, one of which left an American tourist dead.

While Abbas gave his condolences to Biden for the death of the American, he highlighted that Israeli forces had killed nearly 200 Palestinians during the past six months.

NOTES

Political power in the US

All American presidents and vice-presidents have professed to be Christians, mostly Protestant.

Senate: 10 out of 100 are Jewish, nine of them Democrat, one Independent.
House of Representatives: 19 out of 435 are Jewish (4.3%), 18 Democrat, 1 Republican.

Of Forbes 10 wealthiest Americans, three are Jewish

#3 Larry Ellison
#7 Mark Zuckerberg,
#8 Michael Bloomberg
(The richest are Bill Gates and Warren Buffett)

Biggest media companies in the USA

This lists either their founders or if lost in the mists of corporate mergers, splits and take-overs, the people now running/owning them. The names of the Jewish ones have been underlined.

1) Comcast, Brian L. Roberts, Chairman, President, and CEO of Comcast, is son of co-founder Ralph Roberts.

2: Walt Disney, founder had Irish-Canadian, German and English grandparents.

3:  Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., Murdoch.

4: Time Warner: the founding Warner brothers were Jewish.

5: Time Warner Cable, result of so many mergers and divisions no discernible connection to a Jewish heritage

6. Directtv begins with a merger of companies owned by Howard Hughes and Stanley E. Hubbard then many more mergers and buy-ups. Bought by AT&T in 2015.

7. WPP began as wire and plastic products and now owns 100 of subsidiaries in advertising and digital production. British founder and CEO Martin Sorrell is Jewish.

8. CBS. In 1928 Isaac and Leon Levy and Jerome Louchenhei bought up the 1 year old company that became CBS. William Paley son of a Jewish immigrant, built it into a dominant radio and TV station.

9: Viacom, cinema and cable corporation with such a tangled web of buy-ups, mergers, sell-offs not even the tax-man can sort it. As of 2010, the Viacom Board consisted of George Abrams, Philippe Dauman, President, CEO and Chairman, Thomas E. Dooley, Alan Greenberg died 2014, Robert Kraft, Blythe McGarvie, Charles Phillips, Shari E. Redstone, Sumner M. Redstone resigned, Frederic Salerno, and William Schwartz.

10: British Sky Broadcasting, part of the Murdoch empire.