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The Palestinians of East Jerusalem: What Do They Really Want?
Findings from a survey conducted by Pechter Middle East Polls in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations


Executive Summary
Relatively little research has been done on the Palestinian Arab population of East Jerusalem despite the city's crucial political and diplomatic importance and despite the fact that their situation differs in important ways from the situation for Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank andGaza. When Israel took control of East Jerusalem and annexed it in 1967, it made its residents ‘Israeli permanent residents’ ("blue card holders"). Permanent residents in Jerusalem can routinely work and travel in Israel, receive the same national health care benefits received by Israeli citizens, receive thesame retirement, unemployment and disability benefits, and have the right to vote in Jerusalem municipal elections (although, in practice, few of them vote in these elections) but not national elections. Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza do not receive any of these benefits.
This survey explored the attitudes of Palestinian Arabs, living in all 19 neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, about their satisfactions and dissatisfactions with life in East Jerusalem, and their concerns and anticipated benefits of having their neighborhood become part of a new Palestinian state, or alternatively, having their neighborhood become an internationally recognized part of Israel and its residents become full Israeli citizens.Dr. David Pollock was the principal investigator for this study and supervised the design, data collection and analysis of the study. Pechter Middle EastPolls, headed by Adam Pechter, initiated, commissioned and analyzed the poll. Field work was conducted in November 2010 by a West Bank based Palestinian polling firm, the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, headed by Dr. Nabil Kukali, using in-home, face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of 1,039 East Jerusalemites. The margin of error is 3%.
The most striking finding relates to East Jerusalemite preferences for citizenship after a two-state solution has been reached. When asked if they preferred to become a citizen of Palestine, with all of the rights and privileges of other citizens of Palestine, or a citizen of Israel, with all of the rights and privileges of other citizens of Israel, only 30% chose Palestinian citizenship. Thirty five percent chose Israeli citizenship and 35% declined to answer or said they didn’t know. A similar question asked respondents if "most people in your neighborhood" would prefer to become citizens of Palestine or of Israel: 31% estimated that most people prefer Palestinian citizenship; 39% estimated that most people prefer Israeli citizenship; and 30% declined to answer or said they didn’t know.
Furthermore, when asked if they would move to a different home inside Israel, if their neighborhood became part of Palestine,40% said they were likely to move to Israel. (Twenty seven percent said they were likely to move to Palestine if their neighborhood became part of Israel.)