By Xinhua
Jerusalem : A poll released on Thursday showed that 53 percent of the Israeli public support a two-state final agreement with the Palestinians and a solution to all the “core issues” – refugees, borders, settlements and Jerusalem, local daily Ha’aretz reported.
The poll, supervised by professor Camil Fuchs, of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Statistics and Operations Research, was conducted Wednesday, a day after the U.S.-sponsored Annapolis conference, among a representative sample of 497 Israelis.
The poll found that 38 percent of the pollees object to such a two-state agreement.
Regarding the Annapolis conference itself, only 17 percent of the public believe it was a “success,” while 42 percent called it a “failure”.
A quarter of the public believes the conference was “neither a failure nor a success.”
Among Arab pollees, only 3 percent called the conference a success, compared to 66 percent who called it a failure.
The Annapolis conference ended on Wednesday in an agreement to try to reach a Mideast peace settlement by the end of 2008.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas joined U.S. President George W. Bush to formally inaugurate the first formal, direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in seven years.
Israel and the PNA agreed at the conference to kick off negotiations over a two-state solution on Dec.12.