1. A Time To Speak said:

I recommend caution on polls put out by news media.

They usually conform with the medium's own editorial policy.

And some media are not overly ethical about tilting the polls to mislead the public.

Polls can in fact be made to come out any way the pollsters want them to come out.

2. daniel said:

I agree with #1's assertion that Israel's polls are inacurate. I believe that this poll does not indicate the fact that half of the voters are still undecided, thus the poll just includes the half that has already decided. This in addition to the fact that Israel's anti-semetic media wishes to create a momentum for the Left even if the current reality is contrary to their reports. That is why Israeli polls are wrong more often than they are correct.

3. Jauhara al Kafirah said:

I was in a brief moment of despair, til I read the previous comments, and then I thought a bit about the deceitfulness of our own polls, and hopefully, the exact opposite will prove to be true...One question to ask the Ostrich Parties of Israel: Will a nuclear detonation over Tel Aviv move Israel closer to the vaunted, safe and secure nonexistant 1967 borders?

4. Avraham said:

Ted-

Delete previous comment by Jauhara...totally unnecessary and only reiterates all that people have been saying on this blog. Thanks

5. Peretz Rickett said:

Ted, I would pay about as much attention to the polls here as I would pay to the price of bat guano in Northern Sacremento. Don't forget - there is not a free press here. What you see is a message, not an objective, fact-based report. We all complain about media bias in the US, but this is much worse than media bias - the leftists in government and in control of the press here can squash stories and make other ones up. Case in point, the media here is still reporting on the success of the "Disengagement Authority" in seeing to the needs of the expelled - but the authority has clearly been an unmitigated disaster.

So that was the good news. The bad news is that the voting here can often be just as manipulated.

6. Itzik said:

Good news, bad news... What's so good about Hamas winning? Israel will eventually be pressured to deal with Hamas terrorists just as they were pressured to accept PLO/Fatah terrorists as "peace partners". Just give it some time.

And secondly, if most Israelis want disengagement, it is their choice. They are the ones being blown up, not the American arm-chair generals that insist on keeping extreme hard-line postures.

7. Ed D said:

Itzik, I take issue with your comment about American Jews. I fought in the '73 war and I know that many American Jews have gone over to serve.

8. redbear said:

Be prepared for thousands of Israelis vacating the country and settling in the USA, Australia and elsewhere. Israel is history and will eventually shrink and disappear. Perhaps Olmert and Sharon's son own the taxi concession on the East Coast of the US. Israelis will be driving cabs.

9. Leonard said:

Don't believe all the Polls - Olmert got it wrong in predicting a Fatah victory. They were probably taken before the results of the Palestinian election were known. Olmert is no Sharon - I truly believe that Bibi Netanyahu is about to make a come-back.