Surveys Show Israelis’ Two Sides - Pessimistic but Happy - NYTimes.com: "JERUSALEM — With the start of the Jewish New Year at sunset on Wednesday, a traditional time for stock taking in Israel, the public mood seems paradoxical: a growing disillusionment with the prospect of Middle East peace yet a marked sense of satisfaction with life here.
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That gap, reflected and discussed in media commentaries, was evident in a survey of Israeli Jews published on Wednesday in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot. Two thirds of the survey’s respondents said there was no chance — ever — of achieving peace with the Palestinians. But asked if Israel was a good place to live, 88 percent said yes.
In an article accompanying the poll results, the survey’s director, Mina Zemach of the Dahaf Institute, was quoted as saying she could not remember a time when skepticism about the possibility of peace ran so high."
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