{"id":333,"date":"2006-08-20T12:26:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/08\/20\/what-israelis-think-about-the-war\/"},"modified":"2006-08-20T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T09:26:37","slug":"what-israelis-think-about-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/20\/what-israelis-think-about-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What Israelis Think about the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MAARIV POLL\u2013August 15, 2006<\/strong><br \/>\nTelephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israelis carried out by Teleseker.  Statistical error +\/- 4.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think won the war?  Hizbullah 15%, Israel 18%, No one 66%<br \/>\nShould Israel have agreed to the cease-fire?  Yes 42%, No 53%<br \/>\nWill Israel&#8217;s situation vis-a-vis Hizbullah change?  Improve 36%, Worsen 27%, No change 33%<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think bears the responsibility for the failures found during the course of the fighting?<br \/>\nChief of Staff Halutz 40%<br \/>\nDefense Minister Peretz 41%<br \/>\nPrime Minister Olmert 49%<br \/>\nNorthern Commander Adam 18%<br \/>\nNothing went wrong in the war 3%<\/p>\n<p>Should the IDF have entered on the ground in Southern Lebanon? Yes 62%, No 32%<br \/>\nShould Israel kill Nasrallah, even at the cost of renewing the fighting? Yes 67%, No 28%<br \/>\nShould Israel bomb the Iranian nuclear core? Yes 63%, No 30%<\/p>\n<p>Percent satisfied with the performance of:<br \/>\nPrime Minister Olmert, 40%,<br \/>\nDefense Minister Peretz, 28%<br \/>\nChief Of Staff Dan Halutz, Satisfied 44%, Not satisfied 52%<br \/>\nIDF, Satisfied 81%, No satisfied 18%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poll:  YEDIOT AHRONOT\u2013August 15, 2006<\/strong><br \/>\nTelephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israelis carried out by Dahaf. (Statistical error +\/- 4.5 percentage points).<\/p>\n<p>How do you rate the performance of the following during the war?<br \/>\nPrime Minister Olmert &#8211; Good 47%, Bad 51%<br \/>\nMinister of Defense Peretz &#8211; Good 36%, Bad 63%<br \/>\nChief of Staff (COS) Dan Halutz &#8211; Good 49%, Bad 47%<br \/>\nHeads of IDF &#8211; Good 61%, Bad 32%<br \/>\nGovernment &#8211; Good 14%, Bad 84%<br \/>\nSoldiers and commanders &#8211; Good 94%, Bad 3%<\/p>\n<p>Should the following resign from their positions?<br \/>\nPrime Minister Olmert &#8211; Yes 41%, No 56%<br \/>\nMinister of Defense Peretz &#8211; Yes 57%, No 41%<br \/>\nCOS Dan Halutz &#8211; Yes 42%, No 54%<\/p>\n<p>Should Israel have agreed to the cease-fire without the return of the soldiers taken hostage?  Yes 27%, No 70%<\/p>\n<p>Who won the war?  Hizbullah 30%, Israel 30%, Neither 36%<\/p>\n<p>Source: Israel Current News Update, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgesforpeace.com\/\">Bridges for Peace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAARIV POLL\u2013August 15, 2006 Telephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israelis carried out by Teleseker. Statistical error +\/- 4.4 percentage points. Who do you think won the war? Hizbullah 15%, Israel 18%, No one 66% Should Israel have agreed to the cease-fire? Yes 42%, No 53% Will Israel&#8217;s situation vis-a-vis Hizbullah change?\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/20\/what-israelis-think-about-the-war\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}