Great stats: 71% of Americans want their gov't's policies vis a vis Israel and the Palestinians to be "even-handed." (SO LET YOUR CONGRESSpERSONS know they're out of step with main street America -- and they're "back home" next week so see if you can get a meeting.)
Here's an excerpt from Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com
A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that in 14 of them people mostly say their government should not take sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Just three countries favor taking the Palestinian side (Egypt, Iran, and Turkey) and one is divided (India). No country favors taking Israel's side, including the United States, where 71 percent favor taking neither side.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/20/israel/
The original study:http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/503.php?nid=&id=&pnt=503
REALLY interesting poll of 6 Arab countries from 2008
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/503.php?nid=&id=&pnt=503
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
What do US citizens want?
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