Palestinians Losing Faith in Obama, Poll Finds

Hope in President Barack Obama fell among Palestinian adults, a recent poll found.
Palestinians Losing Faith in Obama, Poll Finds
Israeli settlers from the settlement of Har Gilo, built on the land of the village of Walajeh near Bethlehem, look at a Palestinian man attaching his national flag on a fence surrounding the settlement on March 16, 2010. (MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/Getty Images)
4/21/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015
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Israeli settlers from the settlement of Har Gilo, built on the land of the village of Walajeh near Bethlehem, look at a Palestinian man attaching his national flag on a fence surrounding the settlement on March 16, 2010. (MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/Getty Images)
Hope in President Barack Obama fell among Palestinian adults, a recent poll found. The polls, taken in the West Bank and Gaza Strip between April 10 and 15 and published on Wednesday show a significant decline since last October in the hope that Obama’s policies will contribute to bringing a “just peace.”

Israeli media reported that of the 1,198 Palestinian respondents, only 9.9 percent still have hope that Obama will bring an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. This is a major decrease from 23.7 percent last October.

A stunning 78 percent take the dispute over the West Bank settlements—whereby the United States criticizes the Israeli policy as disruptive for reviving peace talks—as being “not serious.” Another 32 percent, in comparison to 19 percent in February 2006, now believe the peace process is dead. Still 44 percent believe the best way to end the Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state is through peaceful negotiations.