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Nine in Ten Palestinians Distrust US Economic Plan: Poll

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
07/03/19
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Nine in ten Palestinians do not believe or trust the U.S. government’s claim that its recently unveiled economic plan aims to improve their economic wellbeing, a poll published Wednesday found.

President Donald Trump’s administration presented the economic part of its Israeli-Palestinian peace proposals, dubbed “Peace to Prosperity,” in the Bahraini capital Manama on June 25-6.

But the poll carried out by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the first since the Manama conference found overwhelming distrust of Washington.

The Palestinians refused to attend the conference, accusing the U.S of systematic pro-Israel bias.

Ninety percent of the 1,200 people polled said they did not believe or trust Washington’s claim that the Bahrain meetings aimed to improve Palestinians’ economic conditions.

Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner, who is leading the peace plan, has said he is seeking to reach out to ordinary Palestinians, bypassing their leaders.

But the survey also found 79 percent of the Palestinian population supported their leaders’ boycott of the conference, while just 15 percent were opposed to that position.

Both the Palestinian Authority and its rival Hamas – the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip – have lambasted the U.S. economic plan as an attempt to buy them off, in return for foregoing any claim to their own state.

More than three quarters believed the U.S. plan would not bring prosperity to the Palestinian economy.

44% plurality “believe that the first most vital Palestinian goal should be to end Israeli occupation in the areas occupied in 1967 and build a Palestinian state in the W Bank and Gaza Strip with E Jerusalem as its capital.” Any serious peace initiative will reflect this.

— Matt Duss (@mattduss) July 3, 2019

The poll also found three-quarters of Palestinians wanted their leaders to outright reject the U.S. plan.

Fifteen percent said the plan should be accepted with reservations and just four percent wanted to accept it without reservations.

The Trump administration has taken a series of steps that have stoked Palestinian anger, including recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017.

Palestinians consider the eastern part of the city the capital of their own future state and Trump’s move broke with decades of consensus and international law.


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