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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:7PM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">Palestinians rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah in support of pro-democracy protestors in Egypt, February 5, 2011.</div>
<div id="divLead">Opinion  polls indicate Palestinians&#8217; support for the recent revolutions in  Tunisia and Egypt, and a failure of Western efforts to portray the  uprisings as secular.</div>
<p>A survey conducted by the Arab World for Research and Development  (AWRAD), published on February 2, showed a bulky 74 percent of the  Palestinians support pro-democracy protests in Tunisia, which toppled  President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years in office.</p>
<p>Some 18 percent of the participants opposed the Tunisian revolution  as negative, whereas eight percent did not have a special opinion about  the historic move, reported the poll conducted on January 19-20 this  year on 1,200 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>A separate phone survey conducted in late January by Paris Match  institute showed that 35 percent of people in France predicted an  Islamic leader to replace the ousted pro-Western rulers in Egypt and  Tunisia.</p>
<p>Twenty-seven percent of the 2,362 respondents did not expect a major change in the foreign policies of the new governments.</p>
<p>On the contrary, another 27 percent expressed optimism that the  revolutions would serve as a start point for the liberation of Arab  nations from Western influence.</p>
<p>More than half of the 1,648 Russians interviewed February 1-3 by a  domestic media studies institute predicted that an Islamic establishment  would be formed in Egypt.</p>
<p>Twenty percent did not speculate any major changes at the end of the  day, 19 percent predicted a democratic government while six percent did  not have an idea about the North African nation&#8217;s future state.</p>
<p>On Friday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned after 18  consecutive days of continued protests against his three-decade-long  grip on power.</p>
<p>The former general, however, transferred power to the country&#8217;s  Supreme Council of the Armed Forces despite widespread popular calls for  a civilian government in the country that has been under a military  rule over the past 20 years.</p>
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