Hamas would get 28.6 percent of the vote compared with 27.9 percent for the rival Fatah faction of Western-backed president Mahmud Abbas if elections were held today, according to the survey by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre.
Just as important:
Ironically Thursday’s poll found that Hamas has stronger support in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, still administered by Abbas, than it does in its own Gaza bastion. In Gaza, the poll put Hamas at 28 percent against 33.6 percent for Abbas’ Fatah. In the West Bank, the poll gave Hamas 29 percent support against 24.5 percent for its rival.
I suspect this was the point: to make peace impossible.
The Dish 