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I'd be really careful with these polls. The one from Zeteo has fewer than 400 respondents per state, has statistical error ranges of +- 5% and they don't really share their methodology. Those results are pretty different than most I've seen, which makes me think this is sort of like Rasmussen, which is a pollster in the technical sense but tends to show Republicans doing 10 to 15% than reality, and that's when they have thousands of respondents. The other one is an online poll which should immediately raise red flags, by a pollster who gets fairly low marks from 538, a polling aggregator which has proven itself over the years.
I'd also argue the stats on the second one seem a little cherry picked/misleading. Nate Silver put it quite well, "It’s true that the notion of a ceasefire is possible. But this is a bit like asking people whether they prefer war or peace; the support erodes once you start to dictate terms... By an overwhelming 64-13 majority, Americans support a ceasefire in Gaza. But by a 44-28 plurality, Americans oppose a ceasefire if Hamas 'does not release its remaining hostages to Israel', according to the same poll" It's a little odd to have such a high percentage of folks saying Gaza is the top priority for them when it generally polls at one of the lowest issues (15th out of 16 polled in the spring)
(Public reporting indicates Hamas has refused release of all hostages as part of a ceasefire without some pretty unrealistic counter offers, e.g., full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.)
I think it's valid to be skeptical of any one poll, but there are multiple polls with this trend, including the one you linked. I would not argue that the data from the AAI poll is cherry picked, but if we assume it is, we can still look at other polls. From the poll you linked:
This is the full YouGov Report that details it's methodology
You can also see the same trend in this Data For Progress Poll
I don't see your point about about the 44-28 plurality. The 3-stage UN Ceasefire proposal, that was put forth by the US and passed, has been accepted by the US and Hamas for months, and includes the full release of the hostages. The hostage exchange was one of the main reasons for Hamas' decision to take hostages, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are held hostage by Israel in torture prisons, including thousands of children.
Sources
Palestinians denied civil rights (HRW) including Military Court (B'TSelem)
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel (wiki)
Children are jailed and abused in Israeli prisons (Save The Children)
Torture and Abuse in Interrogations (B'TSelem)
Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy (NPR)
Urgently investigate inhumane treatment and enforced disappearance of Palestinians detainees from Gaza (Amnesty)
Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests (Amnesty)
In terms of the reasons why they chose to attack, these articles detail the three main reasons. The realities of the Occupation and Apartheid are critical to understand how this kind of violent retaliation is developed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/11/analysis-why-did-hamas-attack-now-and-what-is-next
https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-hamas-attacked-when-it-did
https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907323/israel-war-hamas-attack-explained-southern-israel-gaza
Full Military withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza is a bare minimum. How is it reasonable for the force currently engaged in genocide to continue it's control? That's not a ceasefire, that's continued occupation.
That's kind of the big point there. Basically, people like the idea of a cease fire. It's like asking "should people be happy?" Who would say no? BUT, the devil is in the details. Hamas said yes but Israel argued "no more Hamas" (which, y'know, after Hamas organized and executed the murder and sexual assault of more than a thousand people is not entirely wild) so what does the US do? Force Israel to capitulate, withdraw and allow Hamas to function? The polling for that would look a lot different.
(And full military withdrawal from Gaza is a no go for Israel as it would almost certainly allow Hamas to rearm, resupply and rebuild.)
That being said, I think Netanyahu is the largest obstacle to peace here but I also know enough to know that the Israelis who have dealt with military attacks and acts of terrorism like suicide bombings since inception have some understandable security concerns.
Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
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Oslo Accord Sources: MEE, NYT, Haaretz, AJ
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Hamas officials should be held accountable for all war crimes committed, same as all Israeli officials. That said, there are many parallels between the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Gaza.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai, an Israeli, has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video