If this holds we will see if Sharon goes to a coalition with Labor.
Polls: Likud Rejects Gaza Withdrawal Plan
JERUSALEM - TV polls indicated Sunday that the ruling Likud Party overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s proposal to withdraw from the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) and four small West Bank settlements.
Also Sunday, gunmen killed a pregnant Jewish settler and four of her children in Gaza, and Israel responded with a missile attack on a Hamas radio station.
The woman was apparently on her way into Israel to help campaign against the Gaza withdrawal plan.
Just hours later, four missiles hit a 14-story building in Gaza City housing the radio stations' offices, caving in part of the roof and cutting off electricity to the building.
Screaming women stood on the balconies. The building, filled with apartments and businesses, in the upscale Rimal neighborhood is also home to the two main Palestinian newspapers, Al Ayyam and Al Quds.
Military sources said the army had attacked a Hamas radio station that had been broadcasting "incitement."
The telephone polls, conducted by Israel's three main TV stations, gave opponents a large lead of between 12 and 24 percentage points.
A survey by Channel 2 had the smallest lead for opponents, with 56 percent against the plan and 44 percent in favor. On Channel 10, the poll indicated 58 had voted against and 42 percent in favor.
The greatest gap was given by Channel 1, with 62 percent against and 38 percent in favor.
Turnout was low. Apparently, fewer than half of the 193,000 Likud members had voted. Analysts said the "no" vote was boosted by a Palestinian shooting attack in Gaza earlier Sunday, in which a pregnant settler and her four daughters were killed. |
