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Military Action in Israel - Opinion Poll

A Today poll has revealed overwhelming support within Israel for the military strikes. Of 500 people questioned over the telephone by an Israeli polling company last week, 86% backed Israel's attacks on Palestinian targets; most described their support as "strong".

Q1. How would you vote if there were an election tomorrow?

Ariel Sharon     28.1%
Benjamin Netanyahu     28.1%
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer     4.4%
Avraham Burg     6.6%
I would not vote     3.1%
None of them     17.6%
Don't know / Refuse     12.2%

Q2. Do you support the current military action against the Palestinian Authority?

Very strongly support     62.5%
Strongly support     13.1%
Somewhat support     10.2%
Support = 85.8%
Somewhat oppose     2.7%
Strongly oppose     7.2%
Oppose = 11.5%
Don't know     4.3%

Q3. The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said: "There can be no military solution to this desperate situation which Israel and the Palestinians find themselves in". Do you agree or disagree?

Very strongly agree     13.4%
Strongly agree     11.2%
Somewhat agree     15.6%
Agree = 40.2%
Somewhat disagree     9.1%
Strongly disagree     37.5%
Disagree = 46.6%
Don't know     13.3%

Q4. Do you support a withdrawal to 1967 borders in return for peace with the Arabs?

Very strongly support     12.1%
Strongly support     9.1%
Somewhat support     14.7%
Support = 35.9%
Somewhat oppose     8.2%
Strongly oppose     45.8%
Oppose = 54.0%
Don't know     10.2%

Q5. Would further military actions in the War against Terrorism improve or worsen the situation

Improve     31.0%
Do not improve or worsen     13.0%
Improve = 31%
Worsen     31.3%
Worsen = 31.3%
Don't know.     24.8%

The interviewees were drawn from throughout Israel; the poll's margin of error is put at four-and-a-half per cent. The poll was conducted by phone by the organisation (PORI) and 505 people were questioned.

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