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"There are differences
between the two polls," said
David Singer, director of the
department of research and
publications at the AJCom-
mittee.
"The strength of the Roper
poll, however, is that it is
trying to determine a trend
line over time. We've used
identical questions and
survey methodology over
four years, and interpreted
the data in terms of yearly
shifts."

ed more positive for Israel,
in others, negative.
For example, on the ques-
tion of whether Israel's re-
sponse to the intifada has
been too harsh, 29 percent in
the Roper poll felt Israeli
policy in the administered
territories was too harsh as
opposed to 35 percent in the
New York Times/CBS poll.
Twenty-seven percent in
both polls said that Israel's
reaction was "just about
right."
But on the question of
whether Israel is a reliable
ally of the United States, the
New York Times/CBS poll
revealed more positive feel-
ings toward Israel, with 45
percent answering yes and
40 percent no. The Roper
statistics were 40 percent
and 38 percent.
"I don't think if you lay
the polls next to each other,
they're really so different,"
said Mr. Singer, who feels
that the New York
Times/CBS poll results were
more favorable to Israel
than the New York Times
article's headline indicated.
Regardless of the incon-
sistencies and the small
percentage point differences,
the AJCommittee has inter-
preted the findings of the
Roper poll as boding well for
Israel and American at-
titudes toward the Jewish
state.
"We find most heartening
that most Americans remain
steadfast in their regard for
Israel," said Ira Silverman,
executive vice president of
the organization. "While not
all of the findings are
positive, we are encouraged
by the general picture of
support that is strong and
durable."

Israeli Writers Protest
Indictment Of Arab Poet

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New York (JTA) — A
Roper poll conducted for the
American Jewish Com-
mittee reveals that Ameri-
cans feel more sympathetic
toward Israel in the Middle
East conflict, and less sym-
pathetic toward the Arab
cause than they did a year
ago.
The findings of the poll,
released July 26, are signifi-
cant in that a CBS-New York
Times poll released just two
weeks ago on the same sub-
ject found support for Israel
among the American public
declining and sympathy for
the Palestinian cause to be
on the rise.
The results of that poll
received front page coverage
in the New York Times and
drew the attention of Ameri-
can Jewish leaders and Mid-
dle East experts alike.

The New York Times/CBS
telephone poll, on the other
hand, compared its new fig-
ures to earlier Roper reports,
which had asked dissimilar
questions and used face-to-
face interviews rather than
a random phone sampling.
At first glance, the fin-
dings of the two polls appear
to be comparable. In some
catagories, the results seem-

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Poll Finds U.S. Jews'
Israel Support Has Risen

Jerusalem (JTA) — Twen-
ty-eight prominent writers
and poets, both Jews and
Arabs, submitted a petition
this week to Attorney Gen-
eral Yosef Harish, urging
him to suspend legal action
taken against an Arab poet
who has been charged with
writing poems that created
"incitement to violence."
The petition was attached
to a formal request by poet
Shafik Habib, of the Arab
village of Deir Hanna in the
Galilee, asking the attorney
general to suspend the legal
proceedings against him.

The request was based on
the argument that
"criticism of poetry is a
matter for the public, and
not for the police and
courts."
The court decided to
postpone the proceedings
until the end of September.
The charges were pressed
against Mr.Habib, a
declared Communist, follow-
ing the publication of his
book The Return To What
Will Come, which included
poems hailing the Palestin-
ian uprising in the ter-
ritories.

