And it says:
"...the majority [of those polled] thinks Olmert has renewed the political negotiations with Abu Mazen so as to shore up his status in light of the eventual publication of the full Winograd Commission report, and not because conditions have emerged that increase the chances for a peace agreement.
Furthermore, the majority considers that the two governments — Israeli and Palestinian — headed by Ehud Olmert and Abu Mazen are not strong enough to sign, in the name of their peoples, a peace treaty entailing significant mutual concessions. Only a negligible minority believes these contacts have high chances of leading to a peace agreement. The main reason for the skepticism ies in the substantial contradictions between the sides’ national interests, not in the sides’ ack of williingness to make the necessary concessions.
Assessments of the Olmert government’s weakness are linked to the wide consensus that his is a moderately or very poor government.
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