A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip as a violation of the Geneva Conventions and called on the Israeli government to lift it. Do you think the blockade is illegal? Do you support it’s continued implementation?
JULY 12TH – HAARETZ Reports Israel’s IDF is to blame the Israeli Navy in scathing report on the Gaza flotilla raid
An Israeli military report to be released today on the Israel Navy’s deadly May raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla is expected to accuse the navy of failing to sufficiently consider the possibility that the commandos would encounter violent resistance when attempting to keep the ships out of Gaza. The report is also expected to criticize the navy for not cooperating sufficiently with the Mossad in gathering information ahead of the flotilla’s arrival and to discuss the process by which the raid was approved. It is not, however, expected to call for disciplinary action against particular officers. Read the full article here.
UPDATE: AS AT 700 GMT ON JUNE 12TH THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN PERCENTAGES WITH 65% VOTING ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 33% IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 3000 votes cast 25% of the votes are from Turkey (down 2%) and 17% from Israel (down 5%) with 14% from the US (up 3%). People from 74 countries have voted (up 4). VOTE HERE.
UPDATE: AS AT 1200 GMT ON JUNE 5TH 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 33% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 2400 votes cast 27% of the votes are from Turkey and 22% from Israel with 11% from the US. People from 70 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.
Quite a few people have also sent us tweets, DMs and emails expressing their point of view or suggesting problems with how we phrased the poll or what stories we Tweet. The Israeli Foreign Ministry did Tweet us to say “The interception of the flotilla followed numerous warnings given to the organizers of the flotilla”
All of this is very psotiitve from our point of view as it brings more interaction and involvement with VoteGlobal and what we are seeking to acheive. As ever we are very conscious to remain neutral and simply provide a platform for the democratic sharing of views by everyone.
UPDATE: AS AT 1200 GMT ON JUNE 4TH 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 32% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 2300 votes cast 28% of the votes are from Turkey and 22% from Israel with 10% from the US. People from 69 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.
UPDATE: AS AT 1200 GMT ON JUNE 3RD 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 30% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 2200 votes cast 30% of the votes are from Turkey and 23% from Israel with 9% from the US. People from 67 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.
UPDATE: AS AT 1300 GMT ON JUNE 2ND 67% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 30% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With nearly 2000 votes cast 32% of the votes are from Turkey and 24% from Israel with 7% from the US. People from 64 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.
UPDATE: AS AT 1300 GMT ON JUNE 1ST 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 32% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 1300 votes cast in 24 hours (our Hottest Poll yet) from 54 countries (our best geographic spread for a single poll) it is interesting to note that 33% of the votes are from Turkey and 28% from Israel where clearly the issue has the greatest resonance.
UPDATE: AS AT 2200 GMT ON MAY 31ST 66% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 32% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT.
A new Political poll has been created. Vote here.
Israel says that the organizers of the Gaza aid flotilla have connections to international terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Al-Qaida, and called the aid convoy a violent and provocative attempt to break the blockade on Gaza. Israel says it found weapons aboard the Gaza flotilla, which were used against IDF troops.
The Turkish agency that organized the Turkish ships carrying aid to Gaza, International Humanitarian Relief, or IHH, denied activists onboard attacked Israeli soldiers and says “The ships went through several customs. No one on board was armed,”
“Israel broke all international laws,” said Abdurahman Dilipak, a Turkish intellectual speaking at the press conference on behalf of several NGOs.
What do you think?
A new People_and_Places poll has been created.
Iran has agreed a deal with Turkey to send its low-enriched uranium abroad in exchange for nuclear fuel from the United States, France and Russia. What is your reaction?
A new People_and_Places poll has been created.
There has been a steady increase in the number of Palestinians who are open to the idea of a bi-national state rather than the internationally-backed two-state solution, a new Palestinian poll suggests. Would you favor a Two-State or Binational State for Palestine?
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
The murder of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel is claimed to show Mossad has been gaining access into the Arab World and beyond, in Muslim states that have still not recognised Israel. The 11 suspected Mossad agents who have been named by the UAE as suspects all travelled on British, Irish, German and French documents and apparently communicated indirectly with each other through a command centre in Austria. Apparently the British had protested to Israel in 1987 also over what it termed as the misuse by Israeli authorities of British passports.
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
Recently both sides of the disputed election have become more entrenched in their enimity and more violence has occured. Now many activists are calling for a new “revolutionary council” to overthrow the entire Islamic Republic and institute a secular democracy with fresh faces. Do you agree with the desire to overthrow the Republic and start over?
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
Recent international inspections and proposals focus on a ’secret’ nuclear power plant development revealed by Iran. Many believe this was just one of many they have developed secretly. What do you think? Does Iran have more nuclear secrets to hide? Will other countries ever be satisfied they are cooperating?
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
There is talk of new U.S. and U.N. sponsored sanctions against Iran, as a result of their perceived non-cooperation on nuclear issues. Will new sanctions help or worsen the situation with Iran?
A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.
Early presidential and parliamentary election to the Palestinian National Authority will be held by 25 January 2010, if the split between Hamas and Fatah is overcome. This Poll will be updated as the situation develops, meanwhile, here are your candidate choices:
A new People_and_Places poll has been created.
The African Union (AU) has called on the international community to provide more weapons to the Somalia Western-backed government to battle Islamist militants. Would this help or continue to add to the problems there?
