Poll: Most Palestinians Say No to Peace If It Means Weakening Hamas
“The overwhelming majority is opposed to Hamas disarmament or the departure of its military leadership from the Gaza Strip.”
Despite international calls for peace, new polling suggests a sobering truth: most Palestinians, especially in the West Bank, do not support disarming Hamas or removing its military leadership, even if doing so would end the war in Gaza.
According to the latest public opinion poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 64% of Gazans and 85% of West Bank residents oppose disarming Hamas. A staggering 73% overall reject the idea that the war would end even if Hamas released Israeli hostages. In other words, most Palestinians appear more committed to the continuation of armed resistance than to securing an immediate ceasefire.
That reality prompted a strong reaction on Twitter/X:
Most "Palestinians" do NOT want the war to end.
Most “Palestinians” support Hamas and don’t want them removed from power.
These are the “innocent” people the world loves to talk about.
This was a study done in may, 2025. I’ll share the link below.
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— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) August 3, 2025
The poll, conducted May 1–4 among 1,270 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, revealed more than a few eye-opening figures:
- 41% of Palestinians—48% in the West Bank and 31% in Gaza—say armed struggle is the best way forward. This far outpaces support for peaceful resistance or negotiations.
- Support for a two-state solution remains weak at just 40% overall, and 64% believe the two-state solution is no longer practical due to Israeli settlement expansion.
- Nearly half of Gazans (49%) would still vote for Hamas if elections were held today.
- 43% of Palestinians still say Hamas is most deserving to lead them, compared to 19% for Fatah.
- Only 12% of Gazans blame Hamas for the humanitarian crisis. The majority blames Israel or the United States.
While support for the October 7 attack has declined, especially in Gaza, that hasn’t translated into support for compromise. A majority continues to oppose any plan involving Arab peacekeeping forces, disarmament, or Hamas’s exit from power. Even anti-Hamas protests within Gaza are widely dismissed as “driven by external hands.”
The report itself sums it up:
“The overwhelming majority is opposed to Hamas disarmament or the departure of its military leadership from the Gaza Strip.”
These findings complicate the widespread narrative that Palestinians are simply victims of Hamas rule. A substantial portion appears to stand behind Hamas’s tactics and rejects the premise that peace depends on their demilitarization.
With civilian casualties mounting and Gaza in ruins, the real question now may be: do Palestinians actually want this war to end if ending it means surrender?
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“Poll: Most Palestinians Say No to Peace If It Means Weakening Hamas”
Oddly enough, a poll of Democrats and Europeans says the same thing.
Israel should stop all food aid to Gaza.
Let Hamas take care of the rest of the terrorists there.
Gee, sounds like the D party: Do they want to go on hating Trump & MAGA, to their demise in the sole hope of regaining power; or, do they want to come up with solutions that may get them re-elected? Think think think…..
They are psychopaths.
Hamas or Democrats?
Yes.
Impose the lowest possible maintenance lasting peace on any in the West.
Not my original thought by any means but highly apropos here:
There are two kinds of Muslims:
One will cut your head off for not submitting to Allah.
The other wants the first one to do his dirty work for him.
Believe the Muslims that tell you what they will do in furtherance of the commands in the Koran.
Christ instructs us when one cheek is struck, to offer the other. And if your coat is stolen, offer your shirt as well. You can see the existential incompatibility between the two belief systems.
Today Europe wants Islam to do its dirty work for it. I can pretty much guarantee that if you conducted a poll among self-described Christians in Europe, you will be horrified by the results.
America is different, or at least used to be. The beliefs of European Christians and American Christians in these matters are very different, even if the the theology appears compatible.
Middle Eastern Christians even more so. They never renounced antisemitism. “The only thing worse than a Turk is a Jew”.
Turn the other cheek to the one who assaults you. Give your shirt to the thief who stole your coat.
I’ll get many down ticks for thus, but that strikes me as a lack of spirit. Spinelessness. Cowardice. Rolling over and showing one’s belly.
Europe and Canada have done this and so is the U.S.
How about less cheek turning and more Crusades?
No down vote from me.
As I understand it, the misunderstanding in the first case is because the idiom used for “strike on the cheek” did not mean combat, but insult. (More like a woman slapping your face.) It suffers in translation. I haven’t heard of anything similar for the second example.
I prefer “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”
Many of Jesus’ statements are often misunderstood, this one particularly egregiously so. I will preface by saying this is my opinion just thru my study of the WHOLE Bible.
The context to this statement is, as mentioned by henryb is for personal insults or attacks. If you hit someone on the right cheek (Matt 5:39), as most people are right-handed, you are back-handing them, not starting a fist fight. Also you are encouraged to give your coat to someone who sues you for your shirt – no thievery mentioned. As you go thru the next couple verses, it’s obvious that Jesus is encouraging us to not be easily offended by bad actions and strike back, but (my addition) maybe consider how to help turn their view by showing a bit of consideration – love is mentioned – doing what is best for another person. Again, these are all personal, one-on-one interactions they seem to reference.
I also understand there were certain allowances in that Jewish society that made an excessively harsh response allowable when Torah wouldn’t have called for it, and Jesus was seeking to reveal that.
There also is nothing in Scriptures that negates self-defense, notwithstanding the theology that claims to support that pacifism.
Actually striking down true evil would be something God approves: Proverbs 8:13; 29:2, Psalm 5:4; 34:16; 37:9
But I totally agree with Peter Moss, There is existential incompatibility between true believers of the two beliefs.
‘ I also understand there were certain allowances in that Jewish society that made an excessively harsh response allowable when Torah wouldn’t have called for it, ’
Care to name any? I certainly can’t think of any. Indeed Jews are encouraged not to insist on pursuing our rights against one another to the fullest extent of the law.
I think he’s talking about Jewish society at the time, that may (or may not) have given social sanction to responses that were against halacha, or at least against Torah ethics.
Unless the Christians get off their lazy hind-ends and start defending the Faith and themselves the Christian religion will be greatly reduced by the end of this decade and will certainly be extinct by the end of the following decade. So what do I mean by “defend the Faith”? For every Christian murdered by moslems then two moslems must meet a similar fate. For every Christian church defiled or burned, two mosques. Christians must make it clear to moslems that we will no longer be sheep to the slaughter and there will be serious consequences for their violent actions against Christians. Only when that lesson is taught to moslems will the violence end.
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34
So, “I’m killing this old lady because her grandson killed my grandmother”?! No ethical system allows that.
Remember when the Jews fought the Egyptians in Exodus instead of it being God who brought them out of Egypt?
Neither do I.
Christians were pretty much meat dinner for the lions for several centuries. God has to do a better job of explaining why loving him and ending a violent persecutor are mutually exclusive.
I’m not familiar with the Jewish response on this one…historically typically pacifist…. easy to be round up and killed and practically walked right into the ovens in WWII.
You’re being fair to Christians but not to the post-Diaspora Jews. They didn’t have a state or even a militia to fight back with. They were not the secret power behind the Weimar as Hitler propagandized. That trainwreck belonged to a pile of communists that decided it was a good idea to start up a massive govt controlled society in the wake of massive debt and a beleaguered military….sound familiar? The founder was a professing Catholic that later denounced and considered himself a secularist. That should also sound very familiar to the modern Democratic party.
Jews have never been pacifists. What they have been was disarmed and defenseless. Centuries of lack of access to weapons led to a culture of not fighting.
As well as centuries of collective punishment that could lead to the fining, expulsion or even death of an entire community in reprisal for a single Jew forcibly defending himself.
Stating that German Jews “practically walked right into the ovens in WWII” is a grossly and outrageously unfair statement to make, given the historical realities that prevailed in Nazi Germany, at the time.
I’d read more history on WWII, before you opine in ignorance and intemperance.
Defaming Jews is a centuries long and honorable tradition among some cultures. Only the content of the defamation changes.
Forcible resistance is a bit more difficult when you have been completely disarmed, misled, and any sign of resistance would be an instant death for your wives, children, and families. I get tired of the “sheep to the slaughter“ metaphor.
Google Belsky partisans. Also armed Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
I remember a conversation about non-violence between a staff sergeant in our platoon and our platoon leader. Second Lt. Bolton said something about “turning the other cheek.” SSG (Daddy Doggy) Davis delivered a reply that I still remember 50 years later: “Sir, Jesus Christ turned the other cheek and they nailed him to a f***king cross.”
Some Palestinians actually believe that and some say it because Hamas treats Palestinians like they treat Jewish hostages.
Doesn’t matter. Unless a “Palestinian” hands over the head of a Hamas thug — one for every member of their family — they are presumed to be Hamas supporters.
Do the progressive and globalists care? Hell no. They say quietly but more and more louder every day kill the Jews. Why? Hell if I know, Arabs haven’t contributed much of anything except strife in a long time as I recall. Perhaps they fear the competition from Jews and feel inferior. I have no idea.
Furtherance of the goal…that being to undermine symbols of independence and the Western culture that advanced the world.
“Palestinians’ can simply die with Hamas.
There are no Palestinians. Never have been. (Yes I see the quotes),
Yes there are. The “Palestinians” are Jewish as Rome first designated the territory Palestine when it conquered Jerusalem.
While I think Israel is much too restrained, I always take these polls with a grain of salt. How many answers are the result of fear – of the PA, of Hamas, of family members?
Here’s the problem with your position MZK: you are thinking like a Westerner. You make an assumption that opinion of the majority means something; that, say, if 60% of Palestinians wanted peace that the minority 40% would give up their arms and surrender. That is not the case.
But according to Democrats, that’s exactly how Muh Democracy works.
For exactly the same reason, under the numbers as given, Democrat logic demands genocide as the only fair solution.
Palestinians are poor because Israelis are rich. It’s the same rationalization that blacks hold towards whites to account for blacks’ poor state. Curiously, Palestinians and US blacks have the same average IQ 82 and 86 respectively.
The only remedy is to take stuff from the successful, who are stealing from them.
So that’s the vote.
You should really stop bringing antiquated intelligence data with you wherever you go.
There are plenty of cultural arguments that can make a point without the racist agitprop that has been debunked. The test only estimates intelligence of those educated on specific curricula. It’s not surprising that Black IQ scores have continued to rise since that curriculum was standardized.
Poverty and wealth is not a zero sum game. If you hold that it is, then you need to ask for a refund from whomever you learned that from.
Poverty comes from a lack of production, and a means of trade.
Violence is not a path to wealth unless you count killing the other party and stealing their stuff. Even then, that only lasts so long.
Read the Money Speech if you have any intellectual honesty whatsoever, then come back and post.
Sorry FSU, that was a reply for rhhardin. That’s twice now my reply go shifted down one level. Wierd
Those cultural arguments have been refuted. When studies have been controlled for a variety of cultural, economic, and geographic considerations, IQ differences between the races and ethnic groups remain. It’s a difficult thing to acknowledge but it appears to be a fact that not only is every person not the equal of every other, not every race is either.
like blmplo in america
there can never be enough for them
they want total slavery of wht people here
and
israelis there
Why didn’t west bank islamofascists follow gaza into war?
I had read that there was supposed to be a coordinated response: Gaza, West Bank, northern area by Hezbollah but that didn’t happen. Don’t know why
G-d & (or rather acting thru) the brave men & women of the IDF.
Thank G-d they didn’t. I’d suspect it was fear of consequences. But there are daily or near daily terror attacks and attempted attacks in and emanating from Judah and Shomron (ain’t no West Bank here; West Bank is in Mpls near the U of MN campus) that are not reported outside Israel- or by all that many outlets inside Israel.
Islam is incompatible with the Western concept of civilization.
I’ve been to the Middle East; I speak from first-hand experience.
This is a sentiment shared by the left. They absolutely cannot support any peace with Israel due to their shared racism with Palestinians.
For the left the starting point for peace is the complete destruction of the State of Israel. For Israel the starting point is for Palestinians to stop jkilking Jews.
I say that this settles it…Go get ’em, Bibi.
More evidence that Total War is the only way to go with militant Muslims and their supporters.
There must be a remote island somewhere to move these Islamofascists to, or Antarctica perhaps?
An occupation of Gaza discrediting the genocide lie is the only way forward.
Like it or not Europe is not replaceable for Israel. Unfortunately the path to peace is a lot more complicated.