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AUSTRALIANS VOTE FOR PALESTINE
Many more Australians think that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip in January this year was not justified, a new poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research finds.
And more Australians generally have sympathy for the Palestinians than the Israelis in the Middle Eastern conflict.
The results are part of an independent national poll done by the respected Roy Morgan Research company. It was commissioned by the Sydney-based Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) and the Adelaide Australian Friends of Palestine (AFOPA) organisations.
CJPP Convenor,
Peter Manning, said:
The biggest differences emerge on attitudes to Israel’s military attack on Gaza in Palestine in January when more than 1400 Palestinian civilians were killed, 400 of them children. Some 42.0 percent of Australians found Israel’s actions “not justified” whereas only 29.0 percent found it “justified”. The rest said they “couldn’t say”.
CJPP Convenor Peter Manning said :
The answers to this question about Gaza show that Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was well out of step with public opinion when she expressed sympathy for the few Israelis who died from rocket attacks rather than the 1400 Palestinians being slaughtered by Israeli gunfire on schools, hospitals and residential buildings.”
Mr Manning also
said that Australians were becoming wise to the Rudd
Government’s one-sided
attitude to the conflict in the Middle East.
Of the 636 Australians aged 18 years and over asked whether their sympathies lie more with the Israelis or with the Palestinians, 28.0pc said with the Palestinians, 25.0pc with neither and 24.5pc with the Israelis. Twenty-three percent said they couldn’t say.
Answers to the final question show most Australians (42.0pc) think the Federal Government favours neither side, whilst 1.0pc say it favours Palestine and 19.5pc say it favours Israel. In effect, of those who perceived Government bias, 94.0 percent thought it was towards Israel.
When asked whether they were aware of the events in January concerning the Gaza military campaign, 38.0.pc said they knew “a lot” or “a fair amount” about the situation, 61.0 percent said they did not know much at all or “nothing” and 1.0pc couldn’t say.
Interestingly, of the 38.0pc who said they knew “a lot” or “a fair amount”, a much bigger percentage expressed sympathy for the Palestinians (44.5pc) over the Israelis (29.5pc) .
Mr Manning said:
“All these results, put together, show that Australians are reading between the lines of the media bias against Palestine and Palestinians and they are not convinced by the Howard and Rudd government’s Israel-right-or-wrong policies.”
Many more Australians think that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip in January this year was not justified, a new poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research finds.
And more Australians generally have sympathy for the Palestinians than the Israelis in the Middle Eastern conflict.
The results are part of an independent national poll done by the respected Roy Morgan Research company. It was commissioned by the Sydney-based Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) and the Adelaide Australian Friends of Palestine (AFOPA) organisations.
CJPP Convenor,
Peter Manning, said:“The national
poll shows the federal Labor Government is out of step with public
opinion when it cuddles up to Israel. Julia Gillard’s current
delegation to Israel is out of step not only with President Obama’s
policies but with what Australians think.”
The biggest differences emerge on attitudes to Israel’s military attack on Gaza in Palestine in January when more than 1400 Palestinian civilians were killed, 400 of them children. Some 42.0 percent of Australians found Israel’s actions “not justified” whereas only 29.0 percent found it “justified”. The rest said they “couldn’t say”.
CJPP Convenor Peter Manning said :
The answers to this question about Gaza show that Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was well out of step with public opinion when she expressed sympathy for the few Israelis who died from rocket attacks rather than the 1400 Palestinians being slaughtered by Israeli gunfire on schools, hospitals and residential buildings.”
Mr Manning also
said that Australians were becoming wise to the Rudd
Government’s one-sided
attitude to the conflict in the Middle East.Of the 636 Australians aged 18 years and over asked whether their sympathies lie more with the Israelis or with the Palestinians, 28.0pc said with the Palestinians, 25.0pc with neither and 24.5pc with the Israelis. Twenty-three percent said they couldn’t say.
Answers to the final question show most Australians (42.0pc) think the Federal Government favours neither side, whilst 1.0pc say it favours Palestine and 19.5pc say it favours Israel. In effect, of those who perceived Government bias, 94.0 percent thought it was towards Israel.
When asked whether they were aware of the events in January concerning the Gaza military campaign, 38.0.pc said they knew “a lot” or “a fair amount” about the situation, 61.0 percent said they did not know much at all or “nothing” and 1.0pc couldn’t say.
Interestingly, of the 38.0pc who said they knew “a lot” or “a fair amount”, a much bigger percentage expressed sympathy for the Palestinians (44.5pc) over the Israelis (29.5pc) .
Mr Manning said:
“All these results, put together, show that Australians are reading between the lines of the media bias against Palestine and Palestinians and they are not convinced by the Howard and Rudd government’s Israel-right-or-wrong policies.”
Coalition for Justice & Peace in Palestine
PO Box 399
Dulwich Hill NSW 2203
cjpp@coalitionforpalestine.org