So I am sharing it with you.

I found the results from China, Indonesia and the Ukraine interesting — a significant number (a majority in China and Indonesia) answered don’t know. Don’t know or don’t care?

In Nigeria (a country with a large Muslim population), however, there is no such desire for conspiracies. (Although, of course, we aren’t given a Muslim/Christian breakdown.)

Lots of people will blame education. Possibly. But more literate, numerate, ‘advanced’, ‘modern’ populations were duped by Tony Blair’s propaganda pieces. I think it will be a mix of education, access to various forms of media and trust in government*.

(Via FP Passport.)

*Healthy trust demands healthy scepticism.

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.)