# New Palestinian Poll

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-palestinian-poll/113566>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 12, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-palestinian-poll/113566 "2002-06-12T01:58:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![benlormat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@benlormat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benlormat)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-palestinian-poll/113566/1 "2002-06-12T01:58:54Z")

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[Poll\_Link](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020611/wl_nm/mideast_palestinian_poll_dc_1&printer=1)

The above link leads to a poll showing that 51% of the Palestinians are for the liberation of “historic Palestine”. I know opinion polls aren’t the be all and end all of public opinion, but politicians put a lot of faith in them. How do you think Arafat and Sharon will view this?

Ben

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**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-palestinian-poll/113566/2 "2002-06-12T02:35:11Z")

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Not again!

Didn’t we just have this debate [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118666)?

I do say that this is turning rather into the one sided forum.

Sparc

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-palestinian-poll/113566/3 "2002-06-12T03:48:13Z")

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Why, yes, you’re absolutely right, Sparc, and while I’m here, I’ll point out that we’ve already discussed Life, Death, God, Evil, Abortion, Gun Control, Drugs, SUVs, Gore/Bush, Bush/Clinton, Monica/Clinton, Britney, Christina, and Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer, so of course there’s no need to start any more threads on _those_ topics, ever again. 😃

'Sides, the other thread is about “Palestinians”. This thread is about “How Arafat and Sharon will respond to this new poll”.

My opinion is that neither of them will give a rat’s derriere, but will go right on to do whatever it was they were intending to do.

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**Author:** ![zwaldd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9adbd/32.png) [@zwaldd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwaldd)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-palestinian-poll/113566/4 "2002-06-12T14:31:29Z")

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Arafat will deny the accuracy of the poll and Sharon will view it as nothing he didn’t already know.