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No, is the answer.
Because such polls — despite some headlines reporting them as "shock polls" — have been around for decades. We have known their attitudes for a long time. Turning the other cheek, or "radical generosity" would only embolden Hamas and its wide swathe of Palestinian supporters.
Big majorities of Muslims, even those living in western countries, do not agree with western values. Big majorities hate the "small satan" of Israel, and hate the "great satan" of the United States even more. Hate the west and its values. As I argued back in 2009, here, and in 2014 here.
This has been known all along, even as we have welcomed vast numbers of Islamic immigrants into the west, majorities of whom — by all polls — hate the west. Listen again to Sam Harris on his “Bright line between Good and Evil”.
Yet in the west many people confuse high degrees of hate with the righteousness of their cause. They are so angry, and have been so for so long, they must be right! But they are not right just because they're angry. And trying to make them less angry by addressing "grievances" won't work because the fundamental issue to Palestinians is not land but Jews. Jews anywhere. It's the ideology of fundamental islam that drives the hate.
Sigh…
