Statistically, Palestinians Not So Much With the Peace Thing [Video]

First Mort Zuckerman is forced to take the McLaughlin Group to school on the broad support that Hamas has throughout the West Bank (hey, lets give Fatah some weapons! Hams will be able to use them...) Then there's Richma'ns more rigorous and robust discussion of Palestinian intransigence, part of his brutal dismantling of Carter in the American Thinker:

The conventional wisdom is that the Palestinians made a tragic mistake in rejecting Clinton's proposal... But the Truman Institute poll shows that -- six years after a new intifada devastated their economy, led them into the moral abyss of relentless mass-murder bombing, discredited the peace camp in Israel, and made it highly unlikely the Clinton proposal will ever be offered again - the majority of Palestinians still reject a peace agreement even on those grounds. How did Carter make his 81% mistake? By seriously mis-reading a different portion of the poll.

Also see the admittedly unscientific Palestinian opinion poll that Elder of Ziyon picked up. We think Richamn is being a touch too generous here - it's not a "serious misreading", it's the "willful obtuseness of a possible anti-Semite". But he's all about that "not jumping to conclusions" and "being reasonable" and "not slandering and smearing people" thing.

[Read an extended version of this post at Mere Rhetoric]