New Poll: Over 80% of Palestinians Think US Deal Not to Produce Any Results

Rasa -A new public opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC) published on Monday showed that the majority of Palestinians polled, 80.3%, expected that the so-called "Deal of the Century", which is being promoted by the United States administration, will not produce anything acceptable to the Palestinians, as opposed to 6.8% who said the contrary.

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Date: 07 August 2018 - 21:49

RNA - The poll also found out that 60.6% support the Palestinian leadership's position not to accept the United States as the sole mediator in the peace process and 28.1% agree with the decision to refuse to deal with the US after its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, WAFA reported.

On inter-Palestinian reconciliation, the poll found out that the public is still pessimistic regarding the likelihood of reconciliation. The majority of respondents, 56.9% expressed their pessimism towards the likelihood that the reconciliation agreement signed in October, 2017 would be implemented as opposed to 35.5% who said the opposite.

The poll was conducted in cooperation with the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on a random sample of 1200 people over the age of 18 interviewed face-to-face throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip between 26th of June and 7th of July, 2018. It had a plus or minus three percent margin of error.

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