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August 25, 2023

Polls Show Palestinians to Be Less Anti-Israel Than Their Fellow Arabs

Attitudes toward the Abraham Accords are most favorable in Gaza and Jerusalem.

The most frequently voiced criticism of the Abraham Accords is that they somehow constitute a betrayal of the Palestinians—even though it is rarely explained how Palestinians might be harmed by Israel’s warmer relations with their Arab brethren, or how 75 years of war and hostility has improved their lot. If the claim of betrayal were correct, one might expect Palestinians to be the most hostile of all Arabs to recent peacemaking. Yet the opposite is true. Frances McDonough writes:

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