Poll: 19% strive for quick ceasefire, 63%:28% Netanyahu-Barak did not launch
operation because of elections
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date 19 November 2012

Poll carried out 18 November 2012 by Dialogue for Haaretz of a
representative sample of 520 adults Israelis (including Israeli Arabs).
Statistical error +/- 4.4 percentage points and published in Haaretz on 19
November 2012

Do you support Operation Pillar of Defense?
Total: Yes 84% No 12% Don't know 4%

[The following question is what Israelis want to be done right now - not if
they oppose a ground offensive at some stage. The headline in Haaretz
deceivingly was "Less than a third of the Israeli public supports a ground
offensive in the Gaza Strip"]

Which of the following options reflects your view?
39% Continue air attacks
30% Launch ground offensive
19% Strive for quick ceasefire
09% None of the above
03% Don't know

Are you satisfied with the performance of Binyamin Netanyahu as prime
minister?
Yes 55% No 37% Don't know 8%

Are you satisfied with the performance of Ehud Barak as defense minister?
Yes 52% No 37% Don't know 13%

Would you like to see Barak as defense minister also after the elections?
Yes 42% No 41% Don't know 13%

Are you satisfied with the performance of Avigdor Liberman as foreign
minister?
Yes 43% No 44% Don't know 13%

Do you agree that the main reason Netanyahu and Barak launched the operation
was the upcoming elections?
No 63% Yes 28% Don't know 9%

If elections held today (expressed in Knesset seats)
Current Knesset seats in [brackets].
41 [42] Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu
21 [13] Labor
12 [11] Shas
09 [---] Yeish Atid (Lapid)
08 [07] Jewish Home/National Union
05 [05] Yahadut Hatorah
04 [03] Meretz
03 [28] Kadima
03 [---] Am Shalem headed by Rabbi Haim Amsalem
02 [---] Ehud Barak Independence Party
00 [---] Utzma L'Yisrael (Eldad and Ben Ari)
12 [11] Arab parties
National camp total: 69 Left: 39 Arabs: 12

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
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