In May it happened poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research in both the West Bank and Gaza.
For the sake of space, I am recording the findings in aggregate.
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I am a Greek Jew and I have emotional and cultural ties with the democratic Jews of the world. The same applies to the state of Israel, when this state respects, in principle, the articles of its founding declaration (representative parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, equality for all its citizens, religious freedom, respect for human rights) that is, it defends the values of a democratic secular state. Issues that the Netanyahu government systematically undermines.
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Revealing poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research (PCPSR)
The biggest problem in the attitude of the outside world, and especially the West, towards the Middle East is not even the enormous ignorance, sometimes complete, that is recorded in our days. It is mainly the arrogance with which the West continues its age-old patronage of the Jews but also considers that it knows the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs better and as something "superior" will solve their problems for them, making actions and equations with Western standards, which simply do not apply there and nor should they.
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I had been preparing to write about the situation in the Middle East for some time. I had been gathering information and conducting meetings and interviews, but events had caught up with me. At 3 a.m. on Thursday, June 13, sirens in Jerusalem woke up the city's calm. All the residents of the three-story apartment building immediately went down to the shelter in the basement. A few dusty chairs provided relative comfort. A young couple who had just had their first daughter, while the baby slept in a stroller, described to us that they had been awake since 2 a.m. to feed her. That's how they managed to get down first. An elderly lady who had just lost her husband, a former judge in the United States, had come down in her nightgown and a robe. As she had recently arrived in Israel, the group tried in broken English to explain the situation to her as best they could. A couple in their 60s are silent, searching their phones for news. Their two daughters, in their 20s, seem quite familiar with the late-nighters, contacting friends to find out if they are also in the shelter. Two students have brought laptops and continue to solve exercises for upcoming exams.
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