79% think not enough done to stop next war,

Some 79% of Israelis say they believe that their leaders have done enough to stop the next round of fighting, according to a new poll commissioned by the NGO Women Wage Peace.

It found that 52% gave the leaders credit for trying, but said they needed to do more than they did, while another 27% said they had not done anything at all. Only 21% said they felt that the leaders had done everything they could.

The telephone survey was carried out by the Midgam Research Institute and Tel Aviv University’s Program in Conflict Management and Mediation on October 27-28. Six hundred people were interviewed, out of which 500 were Jewish-Israelis and 100 were Arab-Israelis. It has a margin of error of 4.1%.

The full survey will be released this coming Thursday at a Women Wage Peace conference that will be held in conjunction with Tel Aviv University entitled, “From Operation Protective Edge to Diplomatic Alternatives.”

Women Wage Peace provided The Jerusalem Post with two data points from the survey. The second data point explored support for legislation that the movement wants to promote in the next Knesset.

It would require decision makers to consider diplomatic alternatives to the conflict with the Palestinians, during both routine and emergency times.

Some 75% of those surveyed said they would support such a law, with 25% saying they would oppose it.

Women Wage Peace was created in the aftermath of the 2014 Gaza war to promote a strategic resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The movement, which claims to have 43,000 members, draws on women from the Israeli Left and Right. It does not promote any single solution and has not affiliated itself with any political party. It has urged all parties to take the issue of peace more seriously and find a creative solution that would end the violence.