16:09, 23 April 2009 | GMT +5
Palestinians, Israelis favor two-state solution: Poll
TEL AVIV. April 23. KAZINFORM. A vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians want to see a two-state solution to their conflict, a poll released yesterday has found; Kazinform refers to Arab News.

According to the survey, 74 percent of Palestinians and 78 percent of Israelis want to see an Israeli state and a Palestinian state living side-by-side, while the idea of one bi-national state is rejected by 59 percent of Palestinians and 66 percent of Israelis.
The poll, commissioned by the OneVoice movement, was conducted by Colin Irwin of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool together with Israeli pollster Mina Tzemach and Palestinian pollster Nader Said. Some 500 Israeli adults and 600 Palestinian adults were questioned.
A almost-total majority of Palestinians ? 97 percent ? said they saw the establishment of a Palestinian state as urgent, and a similar number ? 95 percent ? said they regarded the Palestinian refugee issue the same way.
Of the Israeli respondents, 77 percent said their most important issue was Israel?s security. On the issue of Jerusalem, 94 percent of Palestinians and 68 percent of Israelis said the future of the city was a key issue, but 50 percent of the former and 77 percent of the latter oppose dividing the city; Kazinform cites Arab News. See www.arabnews.com for full version.