Why Did 72% of Israelis Want Attack on Gaza to Continue?

Shir Hever, a political economist who grew up in Israel, talks about the extreme right-wing radicalization of most of the Israeli Jewish population. Paul Jay Hi, I'm Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news. Once again, don't forget the donate button and subscribe button share button. Also I'd like to thank everyone who already did donate hit all of these different buttons we couldn't do this without you. We'll be back in a second with Shir Hever to talk about what's going on inside Israel. A survey conducted by direct polls in Israel, that question, 684 Israelis has a margin of error of 4.3 percent, finds that a majority of Israelis didn't want Israel to negotiate a cease fire that was announced yesterday and they wanted the attacks to continue. In fact, there is a cease fire now in place as we speak, at any rate, but what does this poll tell us about Israeli society? The poll found that 72 percent of the people that responded thought the operation should continue, with the number rising slightly in the south of Israel to 73 percent. Only 24 percent said we should agree to a cease fire, with the figure dropping to 22 percent in the south. When asked whether Israel had made greater achievements in this round of fighting over the previous round, 66 percent said yes, with the figure dropping to 30 percent for those that lived in the south. Now, the question of whether there should have been such an "operation" – another word to use for bombing – whether the question was asked, should there have been such an operation at all? Well, it doesn't seem like it was asked, at least not in that poll. Now joining us to discuss the state of Israeli society and politics and what the significance of this poll me is, is Shir Hever. He's a political economist living in Heidelberg, Germany. He was born and raised in Jerusalem. He lived in Tel Aviv before moving to Germany in 2010. His recent book is The Privatization of Israeli Security. Thanks for joining me again Shir. Shir Hever Thanks for having me Paul. The poll that you just quoted, does it also include Palestinian citizens of Israel? Paul Jay I have no idea. Doesn't doesn't say that. So I don't know. You tell me from the sound of the numbers. Doesn it sound like it might? I don't know. Shir Hever Most polls do not and I think that's a big part of the story, but in recent years, there's a growing tendency of the polling companies to start also asking Palestinian citizens of Israel to tell what they think about Israeli military operations, for example. Of course, a vast majority of Palestinian citizens of Israel are not too happy about the Israeli army bombing the Gaza Strip, where they have family and friends in such a brutal way. Paul Jay Well, in fact, more so than four years, the Palestinian population of Israel has risen up and is part of this resistance. If I understand it correctly, they've been relatively more passive in the past. So what has that meant to Israeli society? The fact that the Palestinians in Israel. I know Israel likes to call them Arabs in Israel, but they're Palestinians, as far as I understand it, are far more united with the Palestinians outside Israel than maybe they have been in the past. Shir Hever Yeah, they are Arabs, of course, but just calling them Arab Israelis is a very offensive term because it erases their Palestinian nationality. So you can call them Arabs, but they are Palestinian citizens of Israel and sometimes called Palestinians 48. They went on a strike. The first time since the 30s that there was a strike on the West Bank, Gaza Strip,