...The poll, conducted by Sami Smoocha, a prominent sociologist at the University of Haifa, showed a wide gap of mistrust, anger and fear between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens...
..the poll showed that 28% of Israeli Arabs did not believe the Holocaust happened, and that among high school and college graduates the figure was even higher - 33%..
..Among Israeli Jews, 63% said they avoid entering Arab towns and cities..
..Asked about the war with Hizbullah guerrillas in Lebanon last summer, nearly half of the Israeli Arabs polled(48%) said they believed that Hizbullah's rocket attacks on northern Israel during that war were justified, even though numerous Arabs were killed and wounded in those attacks..
..Half of Israeli Arab respondents said Hizbullah's capture of IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a cross-border raid was justified. That incident sparked the 34-day conflict..
.."One would have expected more pro-Israeli results among Israeli Arabs due to the uniqueness of the most recent war: a war with no involvement of the Palestinians, a war in which the lives and belongings of Israeli Arabs were endangered, a war against an Islamic fundamentalist group that most of them don't support," Smoocha said..
..Among the Arab respondents, 76% described Zionism as racist..
..But more than two thirds said they would be content to live in the Jewish state, if it existed alongside a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip..
(from www.jpost.com based on associated press , 18.03.2007)
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