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rashinolyesterday at 10:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

Have you also looked at polls of how Muslims feel about killing Jews?

For example, 3/4 Gazans were in support of killing and raping Israeli Jews (and Arabs) on Oct 7:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palesti...


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sbaygtoday at 2:00 PM

Hard for to assess that stat given the polling organization has this on their Wikipedia page.

“On 29 August 2024 the Israel Defense Forces released Hamas documents[6] that it said showed that, unbeknownst to the PCPSR, Hamas had secretly falsified its levels of public support in polls conducted by the PCPSR.[7] Rejecting the IDF claims, Shikaki said it was 'highly unlikely' that Hamas had falsified its results, but vowed to probe the claims.[8]”

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megoustoday at 6:40 PM

I read all these PCPSR polls in detail as they were released. And if you actually read the polls you'd never be able to conclude what you did, for one simple reason. Those polls consistently show vaaaast majority (>90%) of Palestinians from Gaza did not believe Hamas perpetrated attrocities attributed to them by Israelis. There was never a direct qustion about support of killing Jews in those polls either.

OTOH, extermination of population of an enemy city was a direct question in that Israeli poll.

Also on another note, a poll of a population of Gaza does not represent all Muslims. You can easily say that a long term occupied and terrorized population by Israeli Jews, will not be best representative sample of Muslim views on Israel or Jews, even if that population is very largely Muslim.

Conflating views of all Muslims with Muslims from Gaza, lying about the poll and misrepresenting the results to fit your whataboutist views, etc. only shows your total lack of rigor. Nothing else.

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