ANOTHER "PEACE SUMMIT" FORGOTTEN

An article about polling from Haaretz (via Israpundit) shows that what went on in Annapolis made no more impression upon the Israeli public than any other limp summit of the sort:

According to what the interviewees themselves said, despite the heavy media coverage, less than one-quarter of the Jewish Israeli public (24 percent) regularly followed what happened at the Annapolis conference, 47 percent followed the events only “sometimes,” and 26 percent not at all. This division is almost identical to those we found two months and a month before the conference.

In other words, the positive attitude that the Israeli, Palestinian, and American decision-makers showed toward the gathering was not shared by the public, most of which remained skeptical or pessimistic. That detachment is evident in assessments of the outcomes: 63 percent think the conference did not bring about a basic clarification of the disagreements between Israel and the Palestinians, and a similar percentage say it did not increase the chances of a peace settlement.

This article, however, still contains quite a bit of negative propaganda, which is typical of leftist Haaretz.