Hamas's plan: Launch attacks on Israel. Israel counterattacks disproportionally. Popularity of Israel drops dramatically. More people want Israel destroyed.
However, a similar poll conducted by the Palestinian Center For Public Opinion has produced significantly different findings. According to this study:
The rate of support for Fateh (40.6 %) among the Palestinians lies now higher than that for Hamas (31.4 %). The rate of Fateh’s popularity in Gaza Strip, established at (42.5 %), lies much higher than that of Hamas on its own terrain, reaching namely the rate of (27.8 %). The same trend has been found in the West Bank, where Fateh scored (39.2 %) of the Palestinians’ support, whilst Hamas has to content itself with only (23.7 %).
Another important finding of the PCPO poll is that “the overwhelming majority of the Palestinians, (88.2 %), are for the present in favor of a Palestinian-Israeli truce, specifically (86.1 %) in Gaza Strip and (89.6 %) in the West Bank.” http://roiword.wordpress. com/2009/02/07/after-gaza -war-palestinians-are-of- a-mixed-mind-about-hamas/
Hamas's plan: Launch attacks on Israel. Israel counterattacks disproportionally. Popularity of Israel drops dramatically. More people want Israel destroyed.
Not acoording to the statistics given by Macbrock
Hard to say, but I would not be the least bit surprised
However, a similar poll conducted by the Palestinian Center For Public Opinion has produced significantly different findings. According to this study: The rate of support for Fateh (40.6 %) among the Palestinians lies now higher than that for Hamas (31.4 %). The rate of Fateh’s popularity in Gaza Strip, established at (42.5 %), lies much higher than that of Hamas on its own terrain, reaching namely the rate of (27.8 %). The same trend has been found in the West Bank, where Fateh scored (39.2 %) of the Palestinians’ support, whilst Hamas has to content itself with only (23.7 %). Another important finding of the PCPO poll is that “the overwhelming majority of the Palestinians, (88.2 %), are for the present in favor of a Palestinian-Israeli truce, specifically (86.1 %) in Gaza Strip and (89.6 %) in the West Bank.” http://roiword.wordpress. com/2009/02/07/after-gaza -war-palestinians-are-of- a-mixed-mind-about-hamas/