Homeless and Starving in America

6 June 2009
by HRM Deborah

As the statistics came out on Friday, 5 June 2009 of US Unemployment reaching a staggering rate of 9.4%; which is about 1.4% higher then the 1930’s Great Depression and even staggering figure has came foreword of 12.4 million US children are at risk of starvation.

Some of these children are being equated of the countless photograph’s seen twenty years ago of what was occurring in Ethiopia of children so underfed that they where literally skin and bones, with the possible borderline of rickets; with some case's of fly’s embedded in some children’s eyes, as was reported by a children’s aid worker.

While some of these malnourished families are now homeless and some are living in homeless shelters; it is an ever increasing problem of not just single person’s; but whole families finding homeless on the street and the ever increasing tent cities.

While US President Barack Obama had pledged assistance by 2015, for the majority of these improvised American’s this is way to late for so many; especially with the further decrease of the American dollar and the ever rising cost of just basic necessities.

Update:

Climbing Unemployment Continues to Beat US

19 June 2009

The unemployment rate in the West jumped over 10 percent in May.

The Labor Department reported Friday that 48 states and the District of Columbia saw employment conditions deteriorate last month. The fallout from the longest ‘recession’ which the US claims in historical error as being “since World War II,” was the worst in Michigan as automakers cut tens of thousands of jobs. Its unemployment rate rose to 14.1 percent. With California at 11.5 and Nevada came in at 11.3 percent it was recorded; while Eastern states set record high's, like Vermont which claimed to be just bottomed out.

As quoted from Associated Press, “Joblessness is rising as companies lay off workers and turn to other cost-saving measures, such as trimming hours and freezing or slicing wages, to survive the recession. Housing, credit and financial problems — the worst since the 1930s — have sent the economy into a tailspin.”

“Factories, construction companies, retailers and financial companies are among the industries that have slashed the most jobs. U.S. manufacturers have suffered a double whammy: customers in the U.S. have pulled back along with foreign customers, who are dealing with their own economic troubles.”

As to US President Barack Obama’s Health Plan which with the ever increasing unemployment problems, because most American’s where covered by their employer and in some cases due to rising cost; employers in some cases dropping employee health care all together; this makes Obama’s plan a major bust, along with the fact that most American’s can not afford health care on their own; especially the elderly who have been suffering with this problem for years, with the ever increase of prescription cost. Which some elderly American’s have had to either pay for prescriptions and not buy food or buy food and do without needed medicines or health care.


The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost and it has continued to skyrocket especially in the last year due to the economic downturn, it goes without saying that the average American with the continuous economic collapse and increase, may have to forgo health care all together; which was also a critical situation in the 1930‘s, where home remedies where being more used to circumvent a doctor’s visit or in extreme only for emergency cases, which many still died over the debate of cost and some doctor‘s ill-efficiency.

As to the old argument that one on a good day in the 1930‘s, such as the instance of an American doing farm labor for a dollar a day with "luck" (because this type of employment was either temporary due to seasonal or not as common as people may think due to some US geographical locations); one need’s to remember a single loaf of bread was five cent’s and most people had to squeeze a little less money for the hope of flour to bake their own bread, because the average American even with the dollar wages could ill-afford the five cent loaf of "store-bought" bread. Which is so similar to the cost of living burdens the average American is facing today.

"Beep, Beep, Get out of the way; you road hog!"

Nevertheless, as Obama seems to thrive on his popularity or lack of with his alleged polls especially if people disagree with him; one has yet to be reminded of the promises never kept, the inept manner he has handled the variedness’ of circumstances both global and domestic in such a bumbling Mr. Magoo manner; one is yet, to wonder how he has kept from bumbling out a White House window only to find himself, face down on the lawn?

If There was a Global 'Poll' Sack?

US President Barack Obama, would be sitting at the bottom of the burlap sack with former US President George W. Bush; trying to decide for the 100th time who will get out first due to there unpopularity.

Majority of Americans Live in Poverty

2009 Soup Kitchen

The US once called itself a 'superpower' even within the economic forum, but with a recent poll, it was found that eighty-three percent of Americans are now living in poverty and with no turn around in sight; to further increase this poverty structure.

More Americans say they have no religion

Feeling there way through faith's darkness, a country in Decline.

A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.

Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. (Continued)

Commentary:

There are times, with what happens to a country; has nothing to do with a particular religion, but what is occurring within the countries society structure.

While this particular poll apparently was bias, what is not taken into account is the climbing morality decline in the US and the further collapsing infrastructure of this particular country.

As to some of the major problems in this moral decline are promiscuity, Alcoholism, illicit drug use and various high crime‘s, with complacency; which all accept the latter of crime, has brought about certain disease’s that while some are highly contagious and have no foreseeable medical cure for these disease’s (which does include embryonic stem cell research); except through prevention by moral decency. Which some of these disease’s are not just in the carrier’s themselves, but some can be transmitted to the unborn during pregnancy, to children and in many cases; to others by contact with an infected carrier.

As this pragmatic situation goes beyond mere ideological thought as one may be in question, but to have been ascertained previously; by the scientific and medical community.

Nevertheless, the US continued issue of cloning especially with the precept of future human cloning, baby abortion and child abuse for example‘s; these situation’s or problems would not be an issue within a moral society for they wouldn't occur.

As to the US alleged scientific issue on Global ‘Warming or former US Vice President Al Gore got an expensive light bulb idea, which is nothing but what is called a 'Band-Aid solution'; where the Band-Aid has blown out the car window at 70 MPH, to finally be caught and pasted to an advertisement billboard on the side of the highway.

Which the original solution for this problem, stems from ancient writing’s, not as suggested by US President Barack Obama’s atheist view point; which by the original solution has always been previously, the most sound one of stabilizing the earth.

Iron Eyes Cody AKA the "Crying Indian" was in a “Keep America Beautiful public service announcement” in the early 1970’s, concerning the severe problem of US litter and pollution; which is still occuring today. While at the time this service announcement was being advertised on television and billboard’s, the scope of Global warming and numerous other Environmental problem’s was already being put in the forefront for people not just to be conscientiously aware; but that their was already a major problem.

Finally, the US is not just having an economic collapse, they are having a full collapse in ever facet of the structure of the country itself or what is called 'full implosion' and as far as any type of integrity, it has galloped off as a cowboy; into the perplexed sunset.

Obama Poll: Demon or Saint

As the American propaganda spreads some fictitious poll to make US President Barack Obama out to be some type of saint; there is a much wider more global conscious that tells a much better view of Obama‘s popularity, which is less the prodigy of sainthood, to more the exposure of a apostate demon of bogus hope; especially for the American’s.

Nevertheless, with Obama’s alleged stimulus package and other insidious proposal’s under the guise of aiding the American people, in reality this is just a method to commit financial rape of the whole of the populace of that country; to have the financial means to continue with their criminal activities doesn’t only affect Palestine, but the bulk of the global community.

How much longer should not just the global community, but the citizens of the US have to tolerate all these unspeakable criminal activities; as the US government abuses and continues to try an hold the world hostage?

Bushonomics Poll: Americans angry, worried over state of nation

21 October 2008
by Paul Steinhauser

WASHINGTON -A new national poll suggests that only a quarter of Americans think things are going well in the country today, while the rest of those questioned are angry, scared and stressed out.

Seventy-five percent of those surveyed in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday said things are going badly in the United States.

An equal portion of those polled said they are angry about the way things are going. Two-thirds of those questioned said they're scared about the way things are going and three in four said the current conditions in the country are stressing them out.

"It's scary how many Americans admit they are scared," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "Americans tend to downplay the amount of fear they have when facing tough times. The fact that more than six in 10 say that they are scared shows how bad things are getting."

The 25 percent who said things are going well in the country is another indicator of the negative mood among Americans.

"Prior to 2008, we have seen that level of dissatisfaction only three times in the past four decades -- during Watergate, the Iranian hostage crisis and the recession of 1992," Holland added.

The survey also suggests that most Americans are not happy with President Bush. Seventy-two percent of those questioned disapprove of the president's handling of his job.

The war in Iraq also continues to be unpopular with Americans, with 32 percent of those questioned favoring the war.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, with 1,058 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Commentary:
It has been reported numerous times, that the global approval rating for US President George W. Bush is now in the subbasement; if he where a house.

This is towards the overall manner that Bush has not only handled himself among the global community, but the manner he has destroyed his own country.

Bush has committed some of the most heinous crime’s that in some cases does go beyond what Adolph Hitler attempted to do globally, especially in the case of global domination, slavery, oppression, war and genocide; to name a few examples.

Just thinking of some of Bush’s crime‘s, could make a normal person’s stomach curdle and sour; from the horror.

Bushonomics: American's Find Little Economic Relief in Sight

With little relief in sight, the American people are getting more anxious about the slumping economy and how it affects them.

The share of people who believe the country is moving in the right direction has plunged in just a few weeks, according to a recent poll released today.

Of those found to be in the ever growing unhappiness with the American economy, were one-third of those retired.

The magnitude of the financial meltdown and its impact on the overall economy is hitting people hard across every element of the social and economic spectrum.

The poll showed how financial worries have permeated all corners of American society, with some hit harder than others; but with the every growing consensus that America is in sever troubles and not getting the head above water in sight towards the future.

Jews Feeling Safer in Palestine

A vast majority of Jews in Palestine, 76 percent, said they believed it is safer to live as a Jew in Palestine than in the Diaspora, with only 10 percent choosing the Diaspora as being safer, according to a recent survey.

Bush in the Red

1 July 2008

While people are making jokes to the shade of hue in which U.S. President George W. Bush’s approval rating is, it is never the less by far to most Americans, a glowing shade of red.

The majority of Americans even those that may have had a small inkling of some support towards Bush has now gone completely the other way also within the field of the negative, as far as Bush’s job approval rating goes.

Apparently, it is getting to be a poll joke of which state dislikes Bush the most, instead of the usual, how good is he doing polls.

It is a wonder if Bush will makes it to 20 January 2009 or that instead the majority of the American public will boo him out of the White House or the old adage of tar and feathers on a rail and no this is not a suggestion.

Majority of Russians consider United States a force for evil: US election 2008

29 May 2008

By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow

Given that Vladimir Putin, their revered prime minister, once likened the United States to the Third Reich, it should come as little surprise that Russians were more suspicious of their Cold War adversary’s motives than any other nationality surveyed.

Just 16 per cent of those surveyed thought the United States a force for good in the world, compared with 56 percent who considered it a force for evil.

You don’t have to look far to see why.

Many Russians reckon that the United States played a crucial role in the financial collapse of the 1990s by pushing Boris Yeltsin’s government into making precipitous economic reforms.

The Iraq war and a relentless stream of anti-US rhetoric from Mr Putin, who regularly portrayed Washington as an imperialist aggressor, have only heightened that antagonism.

America’s plans to build a missile defence shield in central Europe and a Washington-led campaign to bring the ex-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine have also played on Russia’s traditional paranoia.

State television frequently points to both issues as evidence that the United States is conspiring to encircle and enfeeble Russia as part of a plot to steal its vast energy resources.

Arguably more surprisingly, the survey shows that John McCain enjoys more support in Russia than most of the G8. While he still trailed Barack Obama by seven per cent, 24 per cent of Russians said they could vote for him if they could — compared to just eight per cent of French respondents.

In Soviet times it was generally agreed that the Kremlin preferred to see a Republican in the White House. Conservatives were more straightforward to deal with because they acted from self-interest and were less concerned with human rights than their Democratic rivals, it was reckoned.

Mr McCain, however, has been roundly criticised in the Russian media for his antagonistic opinions towards Moscow. He has long called for Russia’s expulsion from the G8, has been scathing about Mr Putin and dismissed the country’s presidential elections in March as “rigged”.

While Mr Obama has hardly been fulsome about Russia, his criticism has been far more muted.

That his lead over his Republican rival is so slim probably has much to do with prejudice in a country where old-fashioned racism is still largely acceptable.

Many respondents, however, were equally dubious about both candidates with some 45 per cent saying they did not know who they would vote for or admitting they would vote for neither — a much higher proportion than the samples taken in other G8 countries.

That could have something to do with the aides the two candidates have chosen to advise them on foreign policy. Mr Obama’s team includes Michael McFaul, an academic who has been critical of Mr Putin and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a well known hawk on Russia.

Mr McCain, however, is advised on foreign policy by former secretaries of state James Baker and Henry Kissinger, both seen as more pragmatic on Russia.

The hands of both men were seen in a foreign policy speech by Mr McCain this week that took a softer line on Russia.

Whatever Mr McCain may have said about Russia in the past, he could well take a different tack were he to become president. Both George W Bush and Jacques Chirac, the former French president, were vocal in their criticism on Russia’s war in Chechnya while on the campaign trail — only to soften their positions when they took office.

“Most realise that every position outlined on the campaign trail is not necessarily fulfilled when the candidate becomes president,” said Lyudmilla Lebedeva, a director at the Institute for USA studies in Moscow.

81% in Poll Say Nation Is Headed on Wrong Track

April 4, 2008

By DAVID LEONHARDT and MARJORIE CONNELLY

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Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s, according to the latest poll.

In the poll, 81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in early 2002.

Although the public mood has been darkening since the early days of the war in Iraq, it has taken a new turn for the worse in the last few months, as the economy has seemed to slip into recession. There is now nearly a national consensus that the country faces significant problems.

A majority of nearly every demographic and political group — Democrats and Republicans, men and women, residents of cities and rural areas, college graduates and those who finished only high school — say the United States is headed in the wrong direction. Seventy-eight percent of respondents said the country was worse off than five years ago; just 4 percent said it was better off.

The dissatisfaction is especially striking because public opinion usually hits its low point only in the months and years after an economic downturn, not at the beginning of one. Today, however, Americans report being deeply worried about the country even though many say their own personal finances are still in fairly good shape.

Only 21 percent of respondents said the overall economy was in good condition, the lowest such number since late 1992, when the recession that began in the summer of 1990 had already been over for more than a year. In the latest poll, two in three people said they believed the economy was in recession today.

The unhappiness presents clear risks for Republicans in this year’s elections, given the continued unpopularity of President Bush. Twenty-eight percent of respondents said they approved of the job he was doing, a number that has barely changed since last summer. But Democrats, who have controlled the House and Senate since last year, also face the risk that unhappy voters will punish Congressional incumbents.

Mr. Bush and leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill have moved in recent weeks to react to the economic slowdown, first by passing a stimulus bill that will send checks of up to $1,200 to many couples this spring. They are now negotiating over proposals to overhaul financial regulations, blunt the effects of a likely wave of home foreclosures and otherwise respond to the real estate slump and related crisis on Wall Street.

The poll found that Americans blame government officials for the crisis more than banks or home buyers and other borrowers. Forty percent of respondents said regulators were mostly to blame, while 28 percent named lenders and 14 percent named borrowers.

In assessing possible responses to the mortgage crisis, Americans displayed a populist streak, favoring help for individuals but not for financial institutions. A clear majority said they did not want the government to lend a hand to banks, even if the measures would help limit the depth of a recession.

“What I learned from economics is that the market is not always going to be a happy place,” Sandi Heller, who works at the University of Colorado and is also studying for a master’s degree in business there, said in a follow-up interview. If the government steps in to help out, said Ms. Heller, 43, it could encourage banks to take more foolish risks.

“There are a million and one better ways for the government to spend that money,” she said.

Respondents were considerably more open to government help for home owners at risk of foreclosure. Fifty-three percent said they believed the government should help those whose interest rates were rising, while 41 percent said they opposed such a move.

The nationwide telephone survey of 1,368 adults was conducted from March 28 to April 2. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

When the presidential campaign began last year, the war in Iraq and terrorism easily topped Americans’ list of concerns. Almost 30 percent of people in a December poll said that one of those issues was the country’s most pressing problem. About half as many named the economy or jobs.

But the issues have switched places in just a few months’ time. In the latest poll, 17 percent named terrorism or the war, while 37 percent named the economy or the job market. When looking at the current state of their own finances, Americans remain relatively sanguine. More than 70 percent said their financial situation was fairly good or very good, a number that has dropped only modestly since 2006.

Yet many say they are merely managing to stay in place, rather than get ahead. This view is consistent with the income statistics of the past five years, which suggest that median household income has still not returned to the inflation-adjusted peak it hit in 1999. Since the Census Bureau began keeping records in the 1960s, there has never been an extended economic expansion that ended without setting a new record for household income.

Economists cite a variety of factors for the sluggish income growth, including technology and globalization, and it clearly seems to have made Americans anxious about the future. Fewer than half of parents — 46 percent — said they expected their children to enjoy a better standard of living than they themselves do, down from 56 percent in 2005.

Respondents were more pessimistic when asked in general terms about the next generation, with only a third saying it would live better than people do today. (Polls usually find people more upbeat about their personal situation than about the state of society, but the gap is now larger than usual.)

Charles Parrish, a 56-year-old retired fireman in Evans, Ga., who now works a maintenance job for the local school system, said he was worried the country was not preparing children for the high-technology economy of the future. Instead, the government passed a stimulus package that simply sends checks to taxpayers and worsens the deficit in the process.

“Who’s going to pay back the money?” Mr. Parrish, an independent, said. “We are. They are giving me money, except I’m going to have to pay interest on it.”

Democrats have asserted recently that the lack of wage growth has made people more open to government intervention in the economy than in the past, and the poll found mixed results on this score.

Fifty-eight percent of respondents said they would support raising taxes on households making more than $250,000 to pay for tax cuts or government programs for people making less than that amount. Only 38 percent called it a bad idea. Both Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidates, have made proposals along these lines.

More broadly, 43 percent of those surveyed said they would prefer a larger government that provided more services, which is tied for the highest such number since The Times and CBS News began asking the question in 1991. But an identical 43 percent said they wanted a smaller government that provided fewer services.

And although both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama have blamed trade with other countries for some of the economy’s problems, Americans say they continue to favor trade — if not quite as strongly as in the past. Fifty-eight percent called it good for the economy; 32 percent called it bad, up from 17 percent in 1996.

At the same time, 68 percent said they favored trade restrictions to protect domestic industries, instead of allowing unrestrained trade. In early 1996, 55 percent favored such restrictions.

Poll: Israelis ready for Arab anchor

Rising talent, Aharish. (PR Photo)

Survey conducted by Agenda Center reveals majority of Israeli feel Arab sector not duly represented in media, Arab personnel can be successfully integrated into media outlets

7 April 2008
by Meirav Crystal

The Israeli public is more than ready for an Arab newscaster, a survey held by Agenda, the Israeli Center for Strategic Communications, revealed Sunday.

The poll, performed by Agenda and the Teleseker polling company, included 400 native Israelis, 200 Israelis who emigrated from the former Soviet Union and 200 Arab Israelis, making up 800 participants

The groups were segmented in order to get a clear view of the public perception of the Israeli media, as well as to examine the way it covers issues relating to each of the sectors.

Fifty-two percent of the Israeli public, revealed the data, is more than willing to accept Arab news personalities: Some 70% of those taking part in the poll said they believed Israeli broadcast should include at least an Arab weatherperson and close to 80% said they would like to see more Arabs being interviewed by the Israeli media.

The survey stands to be presented in the second annual Haifa University Conference for Social Responsibility, which will hold a panel discussing the correlation between media and social responsibility.

Polling data also revealed that 36% of the Arab sector reads Hebrew newspapers, as opposed to only 20% of Russian immigrant that do so. The latter group, however, listens to Israeli radio more that the former – 34% versus 15% respectively.

Increasing the visibility of Israeli Arabs in the media, said the Agenda data, will clearly better their standing in Israeli society, as it will reinforce their sense of belonging.

Sixty-one percent of the Arab polled said they would watch more Israeli television if it gave Arab citizens a better platform; and 50% of those who do not read Israeli newspapers, said they would do so if Israeli print media would give Arab personas more of a voice.

As if to echo their feeling, Channel 10’s Lucy Aharish, the channel's first Arab news anchor, resigned her post recently over professional differences. Aharish is now the front runner to be an anchor on one of Channel 2's morning shows.

As for the public's perception of the media, all those taking part in it – Jews, Arabs and Russians alike, gave the media as a whole a score ranging of D- – a barley passing grade; but still agreed that it had a significant influence on their lives.

Poll Reveals Israelis Believe in Angels, Ghosts

Global adherence to religion measured by international poll. Poll director: Only in Israel religious belief lessens with age

28 March 2008

by Eldad Beck

A poll studying religion on an international level unearthed some interesting numbers regarding Israeli belief in religion and God. 38% of the population was found to believe in a higher power, 16% asserted a belief in ghosts and spirits, and 45% were found to believe in angels.

The poll was conducted by the German Bertelsmann Foundation. It determines that the population calling itself 'extremely religious' in Israel is composed mostly of young people, between the ages of 18-29.

According to the poll, 39% of the citizens of Israel between the ages of 18-29 view themselves as being 'extremely religious', while 47% of those belonging to this age group have a 'religious outlook', and only 13% are not religious at all.

The percentages displaying religious affiliation drop as the age rises. Of the Israeli citizens between the ages of 30-39, 35% deem themselves 'extremely religious', and among those aged 50-59 only 26% answer to this term.

According to Dr. Martin Jaeger who directed the survey, where religion is concerned Israel diverges from the norm. In the other 18 countries in which the poll was conducted, religious affiliation was shown to rise with age.

"Only in Israel, the younger you are the more conservative you are. Since the age group in question is the largest existing in the country, it would be interesting to see if Israel becomes more religious in the next few years," Jaeger remarked.

Regarding the Israeli population's belief in a higher power, the poll determined that 28% of the general population feels shame towards God, while 34% do not. 47% relate to God, while 23% do not relate to Him at all. 17% of Israelis feel anger towards God, while 64% do not feel any anger towards Him.

God makes 52% of the general population happy, and gives 58% hope. Perhaps this is the reason that 57% of Israelis do not believe that the end of the world is imminent.

Americans Keep Negative Views on United Nations

22 March 2008

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Almost two-thirds of people in the United States think the United Nations (UN) is not a competent organization, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 65 per cent of respondents think the UN is doing a poor job in solving the problems it faces.

For the past three years, at least three-in-five respondents have provided a negative assessment of the UN.

The UN was established in 1945 and includes virtually every internationally recognized independent state. The organization describes itself as a "global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, security, economic development, and social equity."

The UN Security Council is in charge of maintaining peace and security between nations, issuing specific resolutions that governments must adhere to under the terms of the UN Charter. The internal organ currently has five permanent members—Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States—as well as 10 non-permanent members who are chosen for two-year terms.

Relations between the U.S. and the UN have been notoriously strained in the past few years, especially following the UN’s rejection of the military campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq in March 2003, led by the U.S. and Britain.

On Mar. 19, UN spokesperson Michele Montas discussed the organization’s current role in Iraq, saying, "Our focus is not at looking back, but rather at helping Iraqis build a peaceful future. The United Nations has been doing all it can and it will continue to do so, working under Security Council resolutions. (...) The secretary-general [Ban Ki-moon] is committed to seeing the United Nations doing more in support of the people of Iraq, as circumstances permit."

Polling Data

Do you think the United Nations (UN) is doing a good job or a poor job in trying to solve the problems it has had to face?


Good job
Feb. 2008: 27%
Feb. 2007: 29%
Feb. 2006: 30%

Poor job
Feb. 2008: 65%
Feb. 2007: 66%
Feb. 2006: 64%

Unsure
Feb. 2008: 8%
Feb. 2007: 5%
Feb. 2006: 7%

Source: Gallup / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,007 American adults, conducted from Feb. 11 to Feb. 14, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Ismail Haniyeh Most Popular Man in Palestine

17 March 2008

A recent poll showed that Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is the most popular man in Palestine.

Prime Minister Haniyeh, is apart of the Palestine legal government.

Poll: Palestinians yearn for peace

BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank, March 12, 2008 (UPI) -- The majority of Palestinians responding to a survey favor a lessening of tensions with Israel and a continuation of the current relative calm in the area.

The survey from the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found that 73 percent of Palestinians asked supported the present lull in clashes with their Israeli neighbors, and 67.4 percent favored seeing Hamas back away from a "military decision" in the conflict.

Nearly 36 percent of the Palestinians polled listed "security" as their top concern. Jobs and personal finances were the leading concern of 25 percent. Three-quarters of the respondents considered the Palestinian economy to be in bad shape.

At the same time, 23.4 percent believed it was unlikely that their children would see peaceful relations between Israel and Palestinians, compared to 19.8 percent who though it was likely.

The poll of 1,220 adults was conducted in person between Feb. 22 and March 6, and had a margin for error of 2.8 percent, the center said.
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Commentary

by HRM Deborah

I am thinking this questioning about peace, is not just occurring among the Palestinians, but also the Jewish people; because this war had went on for 108 years.

Nevertheless, the point to be made is, it is understandable after a war such as this that people are bound to be at little skeptical at times.

Matter in point, is with all the negative propaganda and allocations in an attempt to destroy a chance for real peace in Palestine, is simply going out with the trash where it belongs, in my opinion. However, it may be giving people outside of Palestine, mixed feels and uncertainties also.

But I know in my heart, never again do we as Palestinians ever wish to be at war with the Jewish people, the war was always wrong and nothing will ever change that fact.

Myself, I guess you would say, I gave an impromptu poll and this included Palestinians, Jews and American's and the response I got was 100% for peace and this war to be over, with everyone in Palestine to be able to have the chance of a happy, productive life that everyone deserves.

I really did not realize doing my own poll, that not just the Palestinians and the Jewish people where traumatized about the war, but I got the opinion the war effected everyone that was polled with a very deep sorrow.

In response to security concerns, I know from my reports that everything is being done to create a safe country, especially contrary to the insults and allegations made by Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah terrorist organization.

Finally, those that I polled agreed with the current negotiations between the Palestinians and the Jewish people, they strongly disagreed with the past and failed plans by the American government.

Then End of a Poll

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Comment by HRM Deborah

When I initially created this poll, I wanted to be objective and the choices that where in the poll were comments that I discovered, in just doing this page.

Some of the choices, I did have to put on the poll, was a bit heart breaking to me, but I did wish to understand what people hopefully was thinking.

As of now, the poll is officially closed as far as I am concerned and everyone that contributed to this poll, I do thank you for your help.