IMRA'S Gallup Poll on Critical Golan Issues - Main Results

Dr. Aaron Lerner
December 29, 1999

A Gallup Poll of a representative sample of adult Israeli Jews commissioned by IMRA finds that only 28.4% would support an agreement between Israel and Syria if the agreement does not limit at all the strengthening of the Syrian army. Only a third (33.4%) of those polled would support the deal if implementation would require increasing taxes. The survey also found that three fifths (59.8%) of those who would support such an agreement consider the security issue to be the principal consideration.

Poll results:

Gallup Poll commissioned by IMRA
Survey date: 26 December 1999
Sample: 503 Adult Israeli Jews
Survey error: +/- 4.4 percentage points

Question #1:

Will you support or oppose a peace agreement with Syria that will include full withdrawal from all of the Golan and the withdrawal of the IDF soldiers from Southern Lebanon?

Support 43.6%
Oppose 44.8%
Don't know/refuse 11.7%

Question #2:

Assuming that Israel has to finance a significant part of the withdrawal from the Golan Heights by itself and as a result there will be the need to impose taxes, will you then support or oppose the peace agreement as described above?

Support 33.4%
Oppose 56.5%
Don't know/refuse 10.1%

Question #3:

Assuming that the peace agreement with Syria does not limit at all the strengthening of the Syrian army, would you then support or oppose the peace agreement as described above?

Support 28.4%
Oppose 60.0%
Don't know/refuse 11.6%

Question #4:

When you will be asked to decide in a national referendum on the peace agreement with Syria, will the security factor be the principal consideration or will there also be other principal considerations?

Total Sample:

54.4% Security is the principal consideration
35.5% There are also other considerations
5.9% Other considerations will be the principal consideration
4.2% Don't know

Subgroup that will support agreement:

59.8% Security is the principal consideration
33.4% There are also other considerations
3.7% Other considerations will be the principal consideration
3.2% Don't know

Subgroup that will oppose agreement:

50.8% Security is the principal consideration
38.4% There are also other considerations
7.6% Other considerations will be the principal consideration
3.2% Don't know

Subgroup that doesn't know position on agreement:

48.1% Security is the principal consideration
32.2% There are also other considerations
7.9% Other considerations will be the principal consideration
11.7% Don't know

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