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.)

(via Sleeper Cell.)

A pamphlet warning Britons to leave the Middle East or face death has come to light in a stash of illicit propaganda.

The document does not hail from Basra or Baghdad, nor was it penned by the Islamists of al-Qaeda or the al-Mahdi Army. It was found in Haifa, about 60 years ago, and it was issued by the underground group led by Menachem Begin – the future Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

But we are told to have short memories.

Richard Silverstein of Tikkun Olam looks at the data and concludes that support for the Israel Lobby is shallow amongst American jews - bad news for AIPAC.

(via gas2.0)

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[T]he vice president of the European parliament, an Italian judge and a Northern Irish Nobel Peace prize laureate were among the five people injured at the weekly demonstration against the separation fence in another West Bank town, Bi’ilin.

TIME’s Middle East blog, which unlike RCP is a serious policy analysis outlet, has much more detail on the respective positions of McCain and Obama towards Israel and Iran.

Messianic Jews are demanding an inquiry into the incident.

Testimonies by Israeli veterans.