The Israeli aggressive policies in the occupiedPalestinian territories over the past years have badlydamaged Tel Aviv's image across the globe.
LONDON � Israel has topped the list of the countries
that have the most negative influence in the world,
according to a BBC World Service poll of 28,000 people
across 27 countries.
"It appears that people around the world tend to look
negatively on countries whose profile is marked by the
use or pursuit of military power," Steven Kull,
Director of the Program on International Policy
Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland, said
in a comment accompanying the poll.
"This includes Israel and the US, who have recently
used military force, and North Korea and Iran, who are
perceived as trying to develop nuclear weapons."
The BBC survey asked respondents to pick the "mostly
positive or mostly negative influence in the world"
out of a list featuring Britain, Canada, China,
France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea,
Russia, the US, Venezuela, and the EU.
The country with the highest number of mostly negative
responses overall is Israel (56% negative, 17%
positive), followed by Iran (54% negative 18%
positive), the US (51% negative, 30% positive) and
North Korea (48% negative, 19% positive).
Israel also stands out for having the largest number
of countries (23 of 27) viewing it negatively.
Iran is regarded unfavorably in 21 countries, the
United States and North Korea in 20.
The poll was conducted for the BBC World Service by
the international polling firm GlobeScan together with
PIPA.
In total, 28,389 citizens in Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines,
Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, United
Arab Emirates, and the United States were interviewed
between 3 November 2006 and 16 January 2007.
The Israeli aggressive policies in the occupied
Palestinian territories over the past years have badly
damaged Tel Aviv's image across the globe.
A recent EU poll had found that 59 percent of
Europeans regarded Israel as the biggest threat to
world peace.
In France, a poll showed that almost half of the
French people saw Israel in a bad light.
Most Positive
Miller said India is the only country that has
significantly improved its global stature in the past
year.
The most positive ratings in the poll were given to
Canada (54% positive, 14% negative), Japan (54%
positive, 20% negative), the European Union (53%
positive 19% negative) and France (50% positive, 21%
negative).
Japan is viewed favorably by 24 countries, France by
25, and the EU by 24.
Another three countries tend to be viewed more
favorably than unfavorably: Britain (45% positive, 28%
negative), China (42% positive, 32% negative), and
India (37% positive, 26% negative).
"Countries that relate to the world primarily through
soft power, like Japan, France, and the EU in general,
tend to be viewed positively," Kull said.
GlobeScan president Doug Miller added that India is
the only country that has significantly improved its
global stature in the past year.
"Britain, while slipping a bit since 2005, appears to
be avoiding the steep decline that its war partner,
the US, is suffering," he said on the Globescan's
website.
In January, another BBC World Service's poll showed
that most people worldwide think the US has a mainly
negative influence in the world and that the numbers
had increased significantly in the last couple of
years.
Three in every four of 26,000 people questioned in 25
countries disapproved of how the US was dealing with
the crisis in Iraq, Guantanamo detainees, the Israel
onslaught on Lebanon, Iran's nuclear program, global
warming and North Korea's nuclear program.
(IslamOnline.
1 comment:
Israel is a racist country that is instigating terrorism all over the world. Israel is the Nazi Germany of the Middle East. Except imagine Nazi's with American support, now you have Israel. Apparently to the Israeli government two wrongs don’t only make a right they make a BETTER!!! The Israeli method of pinky toe for a leg vengeance is supposed to intimidate Arabs into submission. But instead they get student visas to USA and fly air planes into American buildings.
How can you not love Israelis? Everybody loves a western style democracy that treats people differently based on there race. Racism is so cool; those lucky Arabs never have to serve in the army. That’s great everyone knows you don’t give Arabs gun they are all terrorist.
Well of course only Americans are stupid enough to believe Israeli propaganda, the saddest thing is how many Jewish people believe Israeli propaganda since they have disproportionate representation in the American intelligentsia. The rest of the world is simply sick and tired of the save the Jews from the holocaust game. Once Jewish culture evolves to accept we are all human not Jewish and Gentile. The Jewish people will be fine. We can interbreed and peacefully coexist. Instead the planet suffers in a vain attempt to maintain Jewish purity. That so Aryan of them.
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