Dntsycnt:
A google on the terms:
palestinians poll suicide bomb
brings to light quite a bit of data for your perusal.
This data is not just some outlier.
It is repeated and repeatable over time by different organizations. For the social/soft/fuzzy sciences, this is about as conclusive as it gets outside of stone tablets writ on by the finger of God.
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Excerpt of the data
2001-12
pcpsr.org
http://www.pcpsr.org/survey/polls/2001/p3a.htmlAn overwhelming majority, ranging between 81%-87%, does NOT view the following Palestinian violent acts as acts of terrorism: the assassination of the Israeli Minister Ze'evi by armed PFLP men, the shooting at Gilo in Jerusalem by armed Palestinians, the killing of 21 Israeli youths at the Dolphinarium club in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian suicide bomber, and the killing of 3 Israelis in Nahari in Israel at the hands of an Israeli Arab suicide bomber.
2001-12
http://home.birzeit.edu/cds/opinionpolls/http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-stillman040802.aspWhen surveyed in December 2001, 81.8 percent of the Palestinian respondents supported or strongly supported armed attacks against Israeli targets, and 92.3 percent supported or strongly supported armed attacks against Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the same poll, 82.3 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed with defining the suicide bombing at the Dolphinarium discotheque that murdered 23 mostly teenage Israelis (and wounded 100 more) as a terrorist attack. 69.4 percent of the respondents questioned would not consider the use of chemical or biological weapons against Israel an act of terror. Thus, a significant number of Palestinians not only favors violent attacks on Israelis, but would support the use of weapons of mass destruction against Israeli civilians.
2002-08
time.com
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020415-227546,00.htmlIn June a poll taken in the Gaza Strip found that 78% of the population approved of suicide bombings, considerably more than supported peace talks (60%).
2006-02
jmcc.org
http://www.jmcc.org/publicpoll/results/2006/no57.pdfWhen asked about their feelings towards suicide bombing operations against Israeli
civilians, a ratio of (56.2%) still either strongly support or somewhat support such operations
compared with (49.7%) in May 2005 and (75.6%) in April 2003. however, there has been a
steady rise in ratio of those who oppose such operations from (29.3%) in April 2003 to
(38.0%) in May 2005 and to (40.7%) this month.
2007-07
pewglobal.org
http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/257.pdfPalestinians stand out for their broad acceptance of suicide bombing. Seven-inten-
Palestinians say this tactic is at least sometimes justified.
2008-03
pcpsr.org
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/18/mideast/18mideast.phpAccording to the poll, conducted last week with 1,270 Palestinians in face-to-face interviews, 84 percent supported the March 6 attack on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, one of Israels most prominent centers of religious Zionism and ideological wellspring of the settler movement in the West Bank. Shikaki said that this is the single highest support for an act of violence in his 15 years of polling here.
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/arabs/poterror.html[Note: Quite a bit at this website from lots of polling orgs, kind of a one-stop-shop.]
Do you support or oppose launching rockets from the Gaza Strip against Israeli towns and cities such as Sderot and Ashkelon? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)
Support
64%
Oppose
33%
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Do you support or oppose the bombing attack that took place in a religious school in West Jerusalem? (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 13-15, 2008)
Support
84%
Oppose
13%
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How do you feel towards suicide bombing operations against Israeli civilians? Do you support them, or oppose them? (Jerusalem Media & Communications Center, February 2006)
Total West Bank Gaza
N= 1200 N= 760 N= 440
Strongly support 22.4 19.7 27
Somewhat support 33.8 31.4 38
Somewhat oppose 24.3 24.7 23.4
Strongly oppose 16.4 20.4 9.5
No answer 3.1 3.8 2.1
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A suicide bombing took place on 01.11.2004 at Tel Aviv's central market. Are you with or against such attacks? (Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, November 4 - 8, 2004)
with
54.5%
Against
33.1%
Don't know
12.4%
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Do you consider Palestinian bombings of Israeli buses and restaurants to be acts of terrorism? (PORI, September 2003)
Israeli Jews Israeli Arabs Palestinians
Yes 99% 57% 10%
No 1% 31% 79%
Don't Know -- 12% 11%
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http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/isrl-pa/ISRAELPA1002-03.htm#P316_44017[Note: This Human Rights Watch article draws data from numerous sources. Funfunfun with footnotes.]
With the collapse of the Camp David talks in July 2000, support for militant actions increased.9 A year later, and nine months into the current clashes, Palestinian researchers found that 92 percent of Palestinians supported armed confrontations against Israeli troops and 58 percent supported attacks against civilians inside Israel.