POLICAL CLIMATE NOT RIPE FOR U.S. SPONSORED PEACE CONFERANCE

In a survey conducted between the 28th and the 30th of September which included 1000 residents of the Gaza Strip the West Bank and Jerusalem, 55% believed that the timing and the political climate is not ripe, for a peace conference aimed at ending the Israeli/Arab conflict in the Middle East. Most Palestinians are not hopeful that the US planned peace conference will result in any progress towards a final resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.