The AAI/ZI* conducted a poll back in July, 2000. The results of this poll may be helpful when writing letters by mentioning increasing American support for Palestinian rights, including the Right of Return and right to share Jerusalem.

The results of the July 14-17, 2000, AAI/ZI poll are as follow:

"President Clinton is currently meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat at Camp David to seek a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. I am going to read you a few of the issues that must be decided by the Israelis and the Palestinians."

1. Do you agree or disagree with the Palestinian right to establish an independent state?

• 32.8% Strongly Agree
• 33.3% Somewhat Agree
• 5.4% Somewhat Disagree
• 7.5% Strongly Disagree

2. Israel has claimed all of Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinians say that East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 war, should be the site of the Palestinian capital. In your view, should Jerusalem be...

• 22 % Entirely Israeli
• 43.5% A divided or shared capital between Israelis and Palestinians
• 14 % Neither

3. Israeli law holds that Jews from anywhere in the world have the right to come to Israel and become citizens of that state. However, since Israel was created in 1948, millions of Palestinians have become refugees. The UN passed a resolution saying that Palestinians have the right to return to their homes. Do you agree or disagree that Palestinians have this right to return?

• 51.4% Strongly Agree
• 22.6% Somewhat Agree
• 4.7% Somewhat Disagree
• 4.5% Strongly Disagree

4. In general, do you agree or disagree with President Clinton's handling of the Middle East peace effort?

• 28.7% Strongly Agree
• 34 % Somewhat Agree
• 6.7% Somewhat Disagree
• 14.9% Strongly Disagree