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America.gov Tells America's Story : The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

By Andis Kaulins

America.gov is a useful website produced by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State, and covers important aspects of U.S. foreign policy and American life and culture.

Of interest for our international readership is the section on Democracy Around the World, including the accompanying blog, Democracy Roundtable, by moderator Bridget Hunter.

In her recent posting, Breaking the Middle East?s Circle of Skepticism, she writes:

"Survey data collected by the Brookings Institution, a Washington research and policy-development organization, suggests Arab public opinion supports a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but most Arabs don?t believe it can happen.

In a survey of 4,046 people in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan, 73 percent said they accepted in principle an independent Palestine living side-by-side in peace with Israel, but 55 percent said they don?t believe it will ever happen and 27 percent said they believe the two-state outcome is inevitable but it?s going to take a very long time to achieve.

Researchers suggested that skepticism fuels violence, which makes a two-state solution very difficult to achieve."

Read the entire posting here.

Full post as published by LawPundit on July 15, 2008 (boomark / email).