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Newsday Distorts Poll On Settlers

Monday's Newsday included an article about residents of Judea and Samaria, stating that "83 percent in a recent poll - would agree to leave in exchange for financial compensation or relocation to comparable homes inside Israel."

The article quotes a professor at Tel Aviv University who helped conduct the poll for Peace Now as saying that "many of the settlers are hostage to the Israeli government, which is not willing to leave the territories."

The article is utter nonsense, as the Peace Now poll in question never indicated that 83 percent of settlers wish to move out of their settlements. In fact, according to the poll, "if the settlers could decide where to live today, 71 percent said they would stay where they are" and if an Israeli government ordered the evacuation of settlements, "just 36 percent said that they would heed the order without any kind of opposition."

So where did Newsday get the 83 percent number? From a poll question asking, if the government already decided to dismantle settlements, how it should treat the displaced residents. In response to that question, "74 percent of settlers say that the state should compensate them and allow them to decide for themselves on the best solution. Around 9 percent said the state should resettle them inside Israel proper."
posted on 9/24/2003