Polling Arabs

You have to read this poll about Palestinian and Arab attitudes to Israel and Arab-Israeli peace to realize the errors, fallacies, and mistakes in Western polling of Arabs. Notice that the interviews were conducted in face-to-face interviews: pollsters were most certainly escorted by security men in Jordan and Egypt, and probably by Dahlan goons in West Bank. Most suspicious among the findings is the notion that Arabs blame Arafat for not accepting Camp David. The pollsters also add--as an after thought this: "While the numbers indicate ongoing, deep hostility toward Israel in the Arab world..."