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75% of Hamas voters oppose destruction of Israel

A very interesting statistic appeared today in the Jerusalem Post:

Three-quarters of Palestinians that voted for the Hamas say they are opposed to calls for the destruction of Israel, according to a poll published on Tuesday.

The Palestinian Authority's Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda daily survey stated that 84% of Palestinians support a peace deal with Israel.

More than 75% of the peace-deal supporters voted for Hamas.

The survey was based on responses from 863 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The skeptics should really wonder how much room for maneouvre Hamas will effectivey have.

Only by understanding

Last year, Khaled Mahammed, a palestinian lawyer, opened what is possibly the first and only Arab-run institute for Holocaust research and teaching.

L]ack of knowledge, he says,... prompts illogical statements, such as "what the Germans did to the Jews is what they (Jews) are doing to the Palestinians."

"Whoever knows what happened during the time of Nazi Germany understands that sentence is ridiculous, but it stems from a lack of basic information," he says.

Here's a new report from the BBC about his efforts and some of the difficulties he faces.