World poll: Only 19% see Israel in positive light

[Scurrilous]

Survey conducted in 28 countries on 29,000 respondents reveals that only Iran, Pakistan, North Korea have more negative perception than Israel. Most 'loved' country is Germany. 'Obama effect' has resulted in improvement in relations towards US for first time since 2005

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3878518,00.html

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"Only Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan are viewed in a more negative light than Israel, according to a poll conducted in 28 countries and published Tuesday by the BBC.

The poll shows that just 19% of the 29,000 respondents questioned view Israel positively versus 50% who perceive the country in a negative light. Together with Israel at the bottom of the list are Iran (15% positive, 56% negative), Pakistan (16% positive, 51% negative), and North Korea (17% positive, 48% negative).

The poll also showed that world perceptions of the US are improving with 46% of respondents viewing the country favorably and 34% viewing the country negatively. Only two countries saw a decrease in the perception of the world's number one superpower – Turkey and India."


BBC article

[dipsydoodle]

1. Oh ! That high !

:sarcasm:

[kenfrequed]

2. Sigh...

Expect end-times fundamentalist Christians to use this as propaganda indicating that the whole world is turning against Israel.

[pocoloco]

4. Or vise versa?

[kenfrequed]

7. What would that be?

What would be the vice versa?

I am rather unclear as to what you are talking about.

[Kolesar]

3. Worse than North Korea

They need to soften up their image--like Walmart did with the pretty yellow flower logo.

[Sara Bradi]

5. all self inflicted except pakistan

Iran, N.Korea & Israel, all have governments that engaged in behavior that directly resulted in such world view of these countries.

Pakistan once had control of its territories, under Musharraf it lost control of its northern areas, becoming THE hot bed for extremism and the new Wild-Wild-East.

[kirby]

6. Yet 99.00% of Congress does... Odd.. n/t