Two-state majority

Here's a report about a poll of a more serious kind:

The most significant finding was that among the 23,000 Palestinians and 17,000 Israelis queried, about 76 percent on each side endorsed the two-state concept - a Palestinian state existing beside a Jewish state, "each recognizing the other as such, both democratic and respecting human rights, including minority rights."

The aims and methods of the organization conducting the survey are also of interest. It's...

a privately funded group that aims to promote peace in the Mideast. While preliminary, they said, the survey suggests that giving ordinary citizens an "active role" might help end the region's 60-year cycle of bloodshed.

Meeting with reporters in New York, the group's founder-president, Daniel Lubetzky, and Mideast regional director, Mohammad Darawshe, said their ultimate aim was to survey a quarter-million people, to show there is a "silent majority" on each side that favors mutual agreement instead of violence and extremism.

Read the rest. (Via OxBlog.)