The poll was conducted last month in a random sample of 500 Israeli Jews and 500 Israeli Arabs, who were asked how they would describe the relationship of trust between their two populations.
The results, published Sunday by the Angus Reid Global Monitor Polls & Research group, were surprising.
In both populations, respondents said the relationship of trust between Israeli Arabs and Jews is bad, but the Jewish sector viewed matters in a much graver light.
The majority of Israeli Arabs were positive about the relationship; 46.8-percent said relations were “good”, and 5.4 percent said they were “very good.”
Not so in the Jewish population, where only 14.4-percent said Arab-Jewish relations were good, and 1.3-percent said they were “very good.”
A majority of Jewish respondents maintained that relations were bad, but were split almost evenly on how bad the situation was. Almost 44-percent (43.9) said the relationship of trust with Arabs was “bad”, and 39.2-percent said they were “very bad.”
In contrast, only 27.6-percent of Israeli Arabs said the relationship between the two groups was “bad” and even less, 10.3-percent said they were “very bad.”
Almost ten percent (9.9) of Israeli Arabs refused to respond to the survey question, as opposed to slightly more than one percent (1.3) of their Jewish counterparts.
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The results, published Sunday by the Angus Reid Global Monitor Polls & Research group, were surprising.
In both populations, respondents said the relationship of trust between Israeli Arabs and Jews is bad, but the Jewish sector viewed matters in a much graver light.
The majority of Israeli Arabs were positive about the relationship; 46.8-percent said relations were “good”, and 5.4 percent said they were “very good.”
Not so in the Jewish population, where only 14.4-percent said Arab-Jewish relations were good, and 1.3-percent said they were “very good.”
A majority of Jewish respondents maintained that relations were bad, but were split almost evenly on how bad the situation was. Almost 44-percent (43.9) said the relationship of trust with Arabs was “bad”, and 39.2-percent said they were “very bad.”
In contrast, only 27.6-percent of Israeli Arabs said the relationship between the two groups was “bad” and even less, 10.3-percent said they were “very bad.”
Almost ten percent (9.9) of Israeli Arabs refused to respond to the survey question, as opposed to slightly more than one percent (1.3) of their Jewish counterparts.
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