Most Israelis want Hamas leaders assassinated-poll

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The vast majority of Israelis believe the Jewish state should assassinate leaders of the governing Palestinian movement Hamas in response to the crisis in Gaza, a newspaper poll published on Friday showed.

The survey in the Maariv daily showed 82 percent of Israelis favoured killing leaders of the Islamic militant group, whom Israel holds responsible for the abduction of a soldier on June 25 in a cross-border raid from Gaza and recent rocket attacks.

Respondents were questioned on Wednesday, the day before Israeli tanks and troops pushed into northern Gaza, taking over areas Israel abandoned last year after 38 years of occupation.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-07-07T063807Z_01_L07703842_RTRUKOC_0_UK-MIDEAST-HAMAS-POLL.xml

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1. where is this poll?

Ma'ariv International is down.

Oddly enough, this is the second time this has come up, yet I can't find the earlier conversations about this here. :shrug:

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2. Ma'ariv doesn't have an online version in English...

The Hebrew version is available though if you'd like the link...

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3. I have it.

They do have an English version, but it doesn't seem to be up.

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4. The link is dead...it's been like that for a long time...

There's no English version available online. I remember someone else telling me that a long while ago. I suggest anyone wanting to see the poll find someone fluent in Hebrew to translate it for them...

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5. wheres the hebrew link?

i'll take a look