Polls: Extend ceasefire 36%:47%, Terror will break Israeli society 15%:68% Support gestures Olmert gave Abu Mazen 33%:49%

Polls: Extend ceasefire 36%:47%, Terror will break Israeli society 15%:68%
Support gestures Olmert gave Abu Mazen 33%:49%
Dr. Aaron Lerner     Date:  28 December 2006

Telephone poll of a representative sample of 595 adult Israelis (including
Arab Israelis) carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute (headed by
Professor Yitzchak Katz for Israel Radio's "Its all Talk" on 27 December
2006.  Statistical error +/- 4.5 percentage points.

[29 November:  Do you support or oppose the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip?
Total: Support 66% Oppose 19% Other 15%
Voted Kadima: Support 76% Oppose 15% Other 9%
Voted Likud: Support 44% Oppose 22% Other 34%
Voted Labor: Support 78% Oppose 6% Other 16%
Voted Yisrael Beiteinu: Support 43% Oppose 48% Other 9%]

27 December
Do you support or oppose continuing the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip?
Total: Support 36% Oppose 47% Other 17%
Voted Kadima: Support 26% Oppose 48% Other 26%
Voted Likud: Support 38% Oppose 56% Other 6%
Voted Labor: Support 48% Oppose 32% Other 20%
Voted Yisrael Beiteinu: Support 6% Oppose 88% Other 6%

Do you think that the Palestinians are correct or mistaken in their belief
that additional terror pressure on Israel will cause a breakdown of Israeli
society?
Total: Correct 15% Mistaken 68% Other 17%
Voted Kadima: Correct 44% Mistaken 78% Other 18%
voted Likud: Correct 25%  Mistaken 69% Other 6%
Voted Labor: Correct 12% Mistaken 64% Other 24%
Voted Yisrael Beiteinu: Correct 12% Mistaken 82% Other 6%

Do you support or oppose peace talks with Syrian president Assad?
Total: Support 58% Oppose 29% Other 13%
Voted Kadima: Support 61% Oppose 30% Other 9%
Voted Likud: Support 19% Oppose 69% Other 12%
Voted Labor: Support 88% Oppose 4% Other 8%
Voted Yisrael Beiteinu: Support 35% Oppose 47% Other 18%

Do you support or oppose the gestures that prime minister Olmert granted to
PA head Abu Mazen (Mahbous Abbas) in their meeting this week?
Total: Support 33% Oppose 49% Other 18%
Voted Kadima: Support 48% Oppose 39% Other 13%
Voted Likud: Support 19% Oppose 75% Other 6%
Voted Labor: Support 36% Oppose 36% Other 28%
Voted Yisrael Beiteinu: Support 18% Oppose 71% Other 11%

Does the 2007 State budget meet the social-welfare needs of Israel?
Total: Yes 5% No 55% Other 40%
Voted Kadima: Yes 2% No 56% Other 42%
Voted Likud: Yes 19% No 63% Other 18%
Voted Labor: Yes 0% No 58% Other 42%
Voted Israel Beiteinu: Yes 12% No 53% Other 35%

Can prime minister Ehud Olmert and defense minister Amir Peretz cooperate
between themselves on defense matters even though according to minister
Peretz, the level of cooperation between them reached zero?
Total: Yes 14% No 60% Other 26%
Voted Kadima: Yes 13% No 70% Other 17%
Voted Likud: Yes 13% No 69% Other 18%
Voted Labor: Yes 32% No 36% Other 32%
Voted Yisrael Beiteinu: Yes 6% No 92% Other 2%

Do you think that the boycotting of the Chanukah party of Arkadi Gaydamak by
secular MKs and ministers was justified?
Total: Yes 22% No 42% Other 36%
Voted Kadima: Yes 26% No 48% Other 26%
Voted Likud: Yes 6% No 88% Other 6%
Voted Labor: Yes 32% No 16% Other 52%
Voted Yisrael Beiteinu: Yes 6% No 59% Other 35%
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
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