Mexican-American Jew Daniel Lubetzky and Palestinian Mohammad Darawshe from Nazareth conducted a massive survey of 23,000 Palestinians and 17,000 Israelis, and found that that seventy-six percent of both populations favour a two-state settlement, liberal democracy, minority rights, and mutual recognition:
Lubetzky and Darawshe admitted to frustration over a lack of media attention to their project. “Good news doesn’t sell,” Lubetzky said. “We do not produce blood, therefore it is not so exciting.”
Interesting, but we’d like to see the actual text of the questionairres to understand the results better. This, for example, certainly affected the survey in some way:
Survey workers questioned people in streets, homes, schools, workplaces and refugee camps. Amid tension resulting from violent acts by Palestinian extremists and armed responses by Israel, the workers “were sometimes threatened, hit or spat on,” Darawshe said. “It was not always a receptive audience.”
The questionnaires relied on a complicated system under which respondents endorsed a statement with which they agreed or broke down a negative answer by points.
