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Israel wavers over
immediate US strike on Iraq: poll -
JERUSALEM - Israelis are
swinging away from support for an immediate US strike against Iraq in
favour of the UN weapons inspectors continuing their mission, an opinion
poll showed on Friday.
Of those questioned in
the poll published in the daily Maariv, 49 percent said the inspectors
should carry on in order to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis. By
contrast, 45 percent said they supported an immediate US-led attack
against Iraq while six percent did not express an opinion. The
Jewish respondents mostly backed an immediate attack, with 51 percent,
compared to 75 percent of Israel’s Arab minority which expressed its
preference for a peaceful resolution. Two
weeks ago a poll in the same paper gave 51 percent supporting an immediate
US attack compared with 43 percent in favor of a peaceful settlement. Friday’s
poll was carried out on a sample of 600 Israelis and has a 4.5 percent
margin of error. The
Israeli government supports a US-led strike aimed at toppling Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein’s regime. Although
the risk of an Iraqi retaliation against Israel is quite low, the Jewish
state still fears Iraq could fire Scud missiles at it as happened during
the 1991 Gulf War.
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