Thursday, July 24, 2014

unfavorable perceptions of Israel around the world

"A 2013 Pew poll found vastly more unfavorable feelings toward Israel outside than within the United States, which registered a 27 percent unfavorable view of Israel and a 57 percent favorable view. In contrast, 44 percent of people in Britain had an unfavorable view of Israel. Unfavorable views of Israel were held by 62 percent in Germany, 65 percent in France, 66 percent in China and in the 80 percent to 90 percent range in Arab and Muslim countries."  But stop. Aaron David Miller has a brilliant insight as to what that is the case: "because Americans perceive Israelis “more or less the way they perceive themselves, as a democratic entity,” said Aaron David Miller".  And Germany, UK, France, and Finland, etc are not democratic?