Eighty
percent of Palestinians
believe that it is their duty
to support Iraq if it is
subjected to an American
strike as occurred in the Gulf
War in 1990
— Opinion Poll, March
2002

David Irving comments:

HERE’s a little item that our
Arabic expert has translated from today’s edition of the independent Beirut paper
as-Safir. It is a poll among Palestinians that shows that 80 percent of Palestinians would support Iraq if it is attacked, and indeed that they would “feel that it is their duty” to do so.

This raises questions:

First, Bush wants to impose “democracy” on the Arab world, but 80 percent of
Palestinians — to say nothing of
Iraqis — are against him. What kind of “democracy” will that be?
For that matter, what kind of
“democracy” can be imposed by a foreign invasion? The Afghan,
Karzai, style? Not encouraging.

Second, what does this imply for the security of
Americans in coming years? The US leadership claims to be concerned with “terrorism,” yet it pursues policies calculated to arouse intense opposition among the very peoples that Washington identifies as a source of
“terrorism.”

Third, why is
Washington pursuing Middle East policies that stir up such vast enmity? For whose sake is Bush following a course that will only make all Americans, everywhere, the object of deep hatred and rage, and quite possibly the targets for physical violence in coming years?

Palestinians support Iraq against an American strike

AN opinion poll indicates that 80 percent of Palestinians believe that it is their duty to support
Iraq if it is subjected to an American strike as occurred in the Gulf War in
1990.

The poll was conducted by the
Palestinian Center for Public Opinion last
March but its results were not published until now because of the aggression by the
Israeli occupation forces in the past months.

The survey of a thousand Palestinians over the age of 18 consisted of the following question:

To what extent do you support
the statement that the Palestinians
must support Iraq, as they did in 1990,
if it is subjected to an American
strike?

Of the respondents, 51.6 percent said they strongly supported that statement,
28.3 percent said they supported it somewhat, while 3.6 percent said they strongly opposed it and 6.9 percent opposed it somewhat. The margin for error in the poll was 3.09 percent.