Podcast: Ghaith al-Omari on What Palestinians Really Think about Hamas, Israel, War, and Peace

Podcast: Ghaith al-Omari

Earlier this month, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research released a poll of Palestinian attitudes—attitudes towards Israel, towards Hamas, towards the Palestinian Authority, about the Hamas attacks of October 7, about the conduct of the war since that time, and more.

The findings are eye-opening. Asked if the October 7 attacks were the right thing to do, in light of all that’s happened since, 72 percent of Palestinians think they were. A further 85 percent said that they have not seen the videos of the October 7 attacks, and the vast majority do not believe that Hamas committed the atrocities that the videos show. Meanwhile, 66 percet of Palestinian respondents do not support the idea of a two-state solution. Approximately the same number, 63 percent of Palestinian respondents, believes that armed struggle is the best means of achieving, in the words of the poll, “an end to the occupation and the building of an independent state.”