Israeli and Palestinian Public Opinion
October 31st, 2007 by Amanda
Ziad Abu Zayyad in The Daily Star comments on the importance of public opinion in democratic societies and how it can play “a determining role in the shift of power between the different political forces.” However, he maintains that “this principle does not apply in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
He says, although Israel is a democratic country, “Israeli public opinion is subjected to systematic intimidation by competing ideological parties or rival political leaders, through which they expect to dictate the national agenda and the voters’ priorities.”
On the Palestinian side he says, “this process has been hampered from the outset and, eventually, blocked”
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