The poll of 1,270 Palestinians and 564 Israelis was carried out jointly by the Truman Center at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. It had a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Poll: Israelis, Palestinians doubtful on peace
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis and Palestinians responding to a survey believe a recent U.S.-sponsored peace conference was a failure and think their leaders won't manage to sign a peace deal in the next year, according to results released Tuesday.
Israelis were more pessimistic, with 74% saying the peace summit last month in Annapolis, Md., was a failure compared with 59% of Palestinians, according to the poll.
The Annapolis conference officially relaunched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after a violent seven-year freeze. At the summit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to try to reach a Mideast peace settlement by the end of 2008.
But only 23% of Palestinians and 8% of Israelis think that's possible, the poll showed.
More than half of Israelis — 55% — believe that violence will not stop, along with 32% of Palestinians, it found.
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