The PSR survey, which interviewed 1,270 people in 127 randomly selected locations, showed just 45 percent of Palestinians support the two-state solution and only 34 percent think it is feasible because of the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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A Palestinian guy died Monday. after ramming his auto in to pedestrians at a crowded bus stop at the western entrance to Jerusalem, wounding 9, in accordance to Israeli cops officers.
In his speech, the Palestinian leader repeated accusations that Israel was seeking to change the status quo on the Temple Mount and that this had been a major source of Palestinian rage directed at Israelis. Abbas has previously refrained from either endorsing or condemning the attacks, often referring to the wave of violence as understandable but not in the best interests of the Palestinian people. Police officers spokeswoman Luba Samri stated bystanders shot Abed Almohsin Hassoneh, 21, from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.
Since early October, 120 Palestinians, 22 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean have been killed in the violence.
Palestinians aged 18 to 22, a demographic dubbed the “Oslo generation” because they were born after the 1993 Oslo Accords, are the most supportive of an armed intifada and stabbings and the least supportive of the two-state solution.
Speaking yesterday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that young Palestinian demonstrators were “driven by despair (at the fact) that a two-state solution is not coming”. He is also afraid that “the Palestinian Authority could collapse; that, in the event, the P.A.’s thirty thousand security officers would scatter; and that chaos and increasingly violent clashes with Israel would follow”.
Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the police found later found an axe in the attacker’s Mazda and said that 11 people had been injured, although Israeli army spokesperson Peter Lerner tweeted that nine people were injured.
Israel condemned Abbas’s comment that attacks are “justified”. A similar figure supported his resignation in a poll released three months ago.
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Barkat praised the “immediate alertness” of bystanders who averted “a grave tragedy”.
