Poll shows increasing support for peace by Israeli 'soft right'

* No mention of the Palestinians opinion.

Survey of Hebrew-speaking Israelis also finds that 56 percent would vote for the prime minister if he were to establish a new party.

By Haaretz | Feb. 28, 2014 | 1:49 AM

Some 63 percent of Hebrew-speaking Israelis are likely to support a regional peace agreement in principle, even without knowing the full details of the agreement, according to a new poll released on Thursday.

That support increased to over three-quarters (76 percent) after the respondents were briefed on the likely details of an agreement, based on the assumed components of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's framework document and an interpretation of the Arab League Peace Initiative, which promises Israel “full diplomatic and normal relations” with 57 Arab and Muslim states, in exchange for a “comprehensive peace agreement” with the Palestinians.

In both cases, the responses represent a statistically significant increase over the findings in other surveys conducted over the past few months.

The survey was commissioned by the Israeli Peace Initiative Group and conducted on February 6, 2014 by Israeli research institute New Wave Research among a representative sample of 500 people. The survey report stresses that the sample "is not fully representative of Arabic and Russian-speakers who do not know Hebrew or of the ultra-Orthodox population."

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