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• 12:45:22 am on July 24, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: conflict, Israel, palestine, politics, polls, UN

  A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries found that people in 14 of them expressed the belief that their governments should not take sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Respondents in three countries favoured taking the Palestinian side (not surprisingly these were Egypt, Iran, and Turkey). India remained divided. No country favoured taking Israel’s side, including the United States, where 71 percent favor taking neither side.

  A majority of people in Muslim majority countries (Indonesia, Nigeria and Azerbaijan), rejected taking sides, as did the EU countries covered by the survey (Britain, France, Spain).

  There was also significant support for the UN to be more involved through the use of peacekeepers.

  (Via Glenn Greenwald, who also discusses what these sorts of views mean for American politics.)

   

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