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Average 59% of Europeans consider ISRAEL the biggest threat to World Peace
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35383
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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
EU poll: Israel 'biggest threat' to world peace
U.S. beats out 'axis of evil' in causing global instability
Over half of Europeans think Israel poses the "biggest threat to world peace," according to a controversial poll commissioned by the European Commission.
The same survey has the United States beating out Iran, Iraq and North Korea – the trio dubbed the "axis of evil" by President George W. Bush – as well as Afghanistan in a ranking of what countries contribute most to world instability.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1076084,00.html
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Israel outraged as EU poll names it a threat to peace
Israel has been described as the top threat to world peace, ahead of North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran, by an unpublished European Commission poll of 7,500 Europeans, sparking an international row.
The survey, conducted in October, of 500 people from each of the EU's member nations included a list of 15 countries with the question, 'tell me if in your opinion it presents or not a threat to peace in the world'. Israel was reportedly picked by 59 per cent of those interviewed.
The leaking of the results of the poll to El Pais and the International Herald Tribune has sparked a bitter row, with a major Jewish human rights and lobbying group, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, demanding that the EU be excluded from the Israel-Palestinian peace process and accusing Europe of suffering the worst outbreak of 'anti-semitism' since World War Two.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/04/wmid04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/11/04/ixportal.html
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Israel is No 1 threat to peace, says EU poll
Europeans view Israel as the No 1 threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea, according to a European Commission survey yesterday.
The results prompted a furious reaction from the Israeli government, which has already accused the European Union of turning a blind eye to rising anti-Semitism.
The Eurobarometer poll of 7,500 EU residents found that 59 per cent deemed Israel "a threat to peace in the world", with the figures rising to 60 per cent in Britain, 65 in Germany, 69 in Austria and 74 in Holland.
Franco Frattini, Italy's foreign minister, apologised for the results on behalf of the EU, saying they sent "a false signal" and would not shape Middle East policy.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said the poll was proof that Europe has swallowed the media's vilification of Israel "hook, line and sinker". The EU has long been accused by hardliners in America and Israel of tilting to the Arab side.
The list of 15 countries that might be a threat to peace was put together by a low-level EU unit in concert with Belgian members of EOS Gallup Europe. It was not cleared by foreign policy experts working for Chris Patten, the external relations commissioner. "We had nothing to do with it," said his spokesman.
In a twist that left analysts scratching their heads, the poll suggested that the British have turned against Washington even more sharply than the French or Germans. Asked if America posed a threat to peace, the "yes" response was 55 per cent in Britain, 52 in France and 45 in Germany.
In Greece, the figure reached 88 per cent, with 96 per cent calling the Iraq war "unjustified". But the EU itself is deemed a threat to peace by 18 per cent in Britain compared with eight per cent for the whole union. Only Denmark continues to back the Iraq war.
In Britain, a comfortable majority still thinks that the Government should keep troops in Iraq now that the country is committed. While the Dutch were the most worried about Israel, they were also alarmed by America, North Korea, Pakistan and China.
"This is the strangest poll I've ever seen. The Dutch have always been very pro-Israel and so I ask myself how can this possibly be?" said Ben Van Der Velde, European editor for the Rotterdam-based newspaper Handelsblad.
The poll was part of a regular series by the commission's press service and was intended to investigate views on the Iraq crisis.
Gallup questioned 500 people in each EU state - the same for 82 million Germans and 350,000 in Luxembourg - although the final results were "weighted".
The Israeli embassy in Brussels blamed the anti-Israel mood on reckless reporting by the European media, saying: "We are not only sad but outraged. Not at European citizens but at those who are responsible for forming public opinion."
The World Jewish Congress said Europe's elites had been playing with fire by routinely treating Israel as the Middle East villain.
In a recent case, Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of the departing president of the European Central Bank, called the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank worse than Nazi rule in Holland. Almost all of Holland's 100,000 Jews were exterminated by the Germans.
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Why was this poll never officially published?
As Joseph often quotes;
"In 'free societies,' anyone who wants may write, and publish, works that attack Christianity; assail the "historical revisionism" of Afro-centrism; deconstruct the myths of Hinduism; defame the Pope; disdain Republican, Democratic, communist, or any other ideology; emblazon the whole of Islam as a hotbed for irrational mania and terrorism; write entire volumes about the alleged worldwide Japanese economic "conspiracy"; and vilify the entirety of the nebulous entity known as the "white establishment" and anyone dictated by skin color to be within it. But, curiously, in the vast expanse of deconstructive engines of all and everything, one cannot criticize the sacrosanct domain of Jewish history, politics, and identity, unless the critic is willing to be systematically marginalized in all walks of life, prepared to be tarnished and branded as a contemptible hate-filled "anti-Semite," risk losing her or her job, and be categorically lumped into mainstream society's moral and intellectual garbage dump reserved for the likes of the Nazis and Ku Klux Klan."
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Re: Average 59% of Europeans consider ISRAEL the biggest threat to World Peace
International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/06/news/poll.php
Israel fares poorly in eyes of world, poll shows
By Brian Knowlton
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
WASHINGTON: A new BBC poll of people in 27 countries has found strikingly negative attitudes toward Israel, placing it in company with three other countries viewed unfavorably: Iran, North Korea and the United States.
The survey of 28,000 people also found that Canada, Japan, the European Union and France fared best when respondents were asked whether the list of 11 countries and the EU had a "mostly positive or mostly negative influence in the world."
The survey was conducted from November to mid-January by the polling firm GlobeScan and the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland.
In results released earlier, pollsters said attitudes toward the United States had dropped sharply, with 51 percent of respondents now saying it had a mainly negative influence. The declining attitudes have largely paralleled rising American frustrations in Iraq.
Israel had not been included in previous surveys, but it appeared that its image had been tarnished by the war in southern Lebanon last summer. It had the largest number of countries (23 of 27) viewing it negatively, compared to the 21 viewing Iran unfavorably and the 20 seeing the United States and North Korea that way.
Not surprisingly, the most negative views of Israel were found in mainly Muslim countries, headed by Lebanon (85 percent), but there were also large negative majorities in Germany (77 percent), Greece (68 percent) and France (66 percent).
"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," said Steven Kull, director of the Maryland polling program. This, he said, could apply to Israel, the United States, North Korea and Iran.
Yet, positive views of Iran grew dramatically in some Muslim-dominated countries. They received a 51 percent positive rating in Egypt, up 13 points from 2006, and a 50 percent positive rating in Indonesia, up 11 points from the previous year, perhaps reflecting support for Iran's defiant stance on its nuclear program.
The European Union received overall positive ratings in 24 of the 27 countries polled. But Turkish views of the EU grew significantly more negative, amid swelling frustration over Turkey's struggle to become a member state. Negative views, at 32 percent, were up from 16 percent, roughly equaling positive views.
The only country to significantly improve its global standing was India, now deemed to have a "mainly positive" influence by 37 percent of respondents, compared with 26 percent who called it "mainly negative." China enjoyed mildly positive views; attitudes toward Britain, still mainly positive, slipped in some countries.
Polling was conducted in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United States. Margins of error ranged from plus or minus 3.1 to 4.9 percent.
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