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Hamas popularity among Palestinians declining, poll finds
By DPA
Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Fatah, West Bank

The popularity of the Islamic Hamas movement is steadily declining among Palestinians, while that of its rival - the secular Fatah movement - remains unchanged, a new public opinion poll published Monday revealed.

According to the poll, if parliamentary elections were held today, Fatah would receive 43 percent of the vote, compared to 29 percent for Hamas, and the movement's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, would receive the support of 53 percent of the voters, compared to 39 percent for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The survey, conducted by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, said that while the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was expected to lead to an improvement in Hamas' standing, the fact that Gaza crossings with Egypt and Israel remained closed for most of the time and the situation in the Gaza Strip has not improved, had contributed to the decline in support for the Islamist movement.
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The poll also demonstrated that Palestinians living in the West Bank feel greater personal and family security and rate their overall condition higher than those living in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

The poll was conducted between August 28 and 30, a period that saw the consolidation of the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, and the release of nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners as an Israeli goodwill gesture to Abbas.

A representative sample of 1,270 Palestinian adults took part in the poll, which had a 3 percent margin of error.

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      1.   Fatah-backed center... 23:11  |  communist 01/09/08
      2.   no body believes in such polls 00:27  |  mohamad nassar 02/09/08
      3.   Great. Time to Call Another Election. 00:48  |  Reader 02/09/08
      4.   mohamad # 1 is that what your cleric told you? 01:52  |  terrornator 02/09/08
      5.   Laughable indeed! 01:55  |  Saladin 02/09/08
      6.   To Mohammed Nasser in Hebron, Israel 02:30  |  Chucky 02/09/08
      7.   Great. Time to Call Another Election 02:32  |  Howard 02/09/08
      8.   These polls are notoriously unreliable.Prior to the 2006 election 03:25  |  lakshmi 02/09/08
      9.   Surprised 03:45  |  Golani 02/09/08
      10.   NO SURPRISE AT ALL 08:35  |  indrajaya 02/09/08
      11.   NO SURPRISE AT ALL 08:35  |  indrajaya 02/09/08
      12.   WHATS the difference?Neither charter leaves room for compromise 09:01  |  PETER SM 02/09/08
      13.   How desperate #`s 1,2,5, 8,10,11, so far! 09:33  |  S 02/09/08
      14.   INDRAJAYA"NO SURPRISE AT ALL".Where did all the Jihad get them? 09:41  |  PETER SM 02/09/08
      15.   LAKSHMI Hamas only won by a slight margin in the popular vote!! 10:09  |  PETER SM 02/09/08
      16.   Indrajaya #11 complaining of my name S (a few tries) 10:49  |  S 02/09/08
      17.   BOTH HAMAS AND FATAH ARE MURDEROUS TERRORIST GROUPS 10:53  |  Yishai Kohen 02/09/08
      18.   Well when Hamas make $20 million a month 11:13  |  Victoria 02/09/08
      19.   # 13, # 14, S, PETER SM 11:25  |  indrajaya 02/09/08
      20.   INDRAJAYA Hamas,Arabs,Moslems are responsible for their actions 11:45  |  PETER SM 02/09/08
      21.   #19 democracy? 12:05  |  Victoria 02/09/08
      22.   # 21, VICTORIA 14:04  |  indrajaya 02/09/08
      23.   who cares about popularity Hamas & Fatah are both bad 15:11  |  zionist forever 02/09/08
      24.   See this article by the BBc explaining the trend 15:27  |  Elihu 02/09/08
      25.   The title should now read... 16:13  |  David Nigel Braham 02/09/08
      26.   #22 INDRAJAYA 16:17  |  Victoria 02/09/08
      27.   Why? 16:21  |  David Nigel Braham 02/09/08
      28.   # 26, VICTORIA 16:48  |  indrajaya 02/09/08
      29.   Lack of alternatives 18:09  |  David G 02/09/08
      30.   Now is the time to help the MODERATES 18:31  |  Hamzah 02/09/08
      31.   #17.YishaiK. 18:39  |  Benny Johnson 02/09/08
      32.   #28 Indrajaya`s lesson of the day 18:40  |  Victoria 02/09/08
      33.   Indy The world remembers the Palestinians 19:28  |  Golani 02/09/08
      34.   The Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research is Fatah`s. 20:40  |  Fortuna Benmayor 02/09/08
      35.   Outside Interference Muddies The Issue 22:04  |  Gray 02/09/08
      36.   Benny 31 22:56  |  Jasper 02/09/08
      37.   HAMASS & FETAH & HIZBOLLA ARE MURDEROUS TERRORIST GROUPS 23:58  |  RW 02/09/08
      38.   Fatah id the biggest Joke 05:49  |  Faris Zaidan 03/09/08
      39.   #22 Indrajaya Out-clevering Israel`s clever ones 06:05  |  Jim 03/09/08
      40.   Gray 06:14  |  Anton 03/09/08
      41.   # 39, JIM 07:44  |  indrajaya 03/09/08
      42.   Hamas and Fatah - Who the h-ll cares they are one and the same 08:26  |  Mary 03/09/08
      43.   Israel is Hamas`s only ally 11:42  |  ScotGuy 03/09/08
      44.   Jim the great thinker; immortasl wotds 12:43  |  x-ray 03/09/08
      45.   Hamas? Hah! 03:38  |  Jim 04/09/08
      46.   #41 Indrajaya 04:15  |  Jim 04/09/08
      47.   #42 Mary 04:56  |  Jim 04/09/08
      48.   How to regain decency and respectability 13:19  |  YesToDecency 08/09/08
      49.   #37 RW 09:06  |  Jim 24/09/08
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